Millennium Tower (Filene's) | 426 Washington Street | Downtown

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This view will always break my heart.

Aside from that, this is easily the best project going on in the city.
 
At what point will they start pumping concrete up through the core rather than booming it from one boom to the other?
 
datadyne007 said:
Typically with CIP construction the cladding trails the overall height by a couple floors. The yellow screens actually climb with the tower. As they complete lower floors, they raise the screens up another set of floors. New screens aren't added, so we won't have a 625' yellow tower. The screens are solely for safety purposes. When the facade on lower floors is completed (and thus safe), they just raise the screens up to the floors yet to be completed.
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What's the purpose of the narrow scaffold reaching outward at the very top of each cladding section. They have no safety railings, and I haven't yet seen workers on them at any point in their use.
 
datadyne007 said:
Typically with CIP construction the cladding trails the overall height by a couple floors. The yellow screens actually climb with the tower. As they complete lower floors, they raise the screens up another set of floors. New screens aren't added, so we won't have a 625' yellow tower. The screens are solely for safety purposes. When the facade on lower floors is completed (and thus safe), they just raise the screens up to the floors yet to be completed.
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Although it would be kind of cool to have a 60 story school bus yellow tower for a little while.
 
When this thing gets up to say 35-40 stories, how are they going to get the concrete up that high to pour? Special pumps?
 
Love the yellow screening. It's the kind of thing that could look good as a parking garage wraparound.
 
mass88 said:
When this thing gets up to say 35-40 stories, how are they going to get the concrete up that high to pour? Special pumps?
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Turner and Samsung got concrete up 1900 ft for the Burj Kalifa. How hard can it be? :)
 
mass88 said:
When this thing gets up to say 35-40 stories, how are they going to get the concrete up that high to pour? Special pumps?
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This is 605 West 42nd in NYC, which will top out at 50 stories, is at about 40 stories in this picture. If you look between the Silver Towers complex behind it, you will see the concrete pumping apparatus.

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The way this closes in the street, even just with 1.5-3 stories is great. Does so much more for the environment, even when just a concrete shell.
 
choo said:
The way this closes in the street, even just with 1.5-3 stories is great. Does so much more for the environment, even when just a concrete shell.
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Between this and Millennium/Hayward Place, the whole stretch of Washington Street feels different. What was once bookended by empty space now lies between metal and glass and concrete. It's great.
 
Downburst said:
Between this and Millennium/Hayward Place, the whole stretch of Washington Street feels different. What was once bookended by empty space now lies between metal and glass and concrete. It's great.
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I have to agree. It is also amazing how you can already get a real sense of the "street presence" of this building, even though it is just the shell of the podium.
 
Roche Bros. jumps gun on Downtown Crossing opening

"Beginning today, the grocer is setting up five fresh produce stands outside the historic Millennium Tower/Burnham Building where construction is currently underway on the company’s 25,000 square-foot flagship supermarket. The open-air offerings are scheduled to operate seven days a week, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The produce stands will primarily feature fresh fruits, as well as some vegetables, flowers, and seasonal baked goods. The Roche Bros. team will keep the stands open through October."
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http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/r...s-jumps-gun-on-downtown-crossing-opening.html
 
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