[DUBAI2015]

I love how the glass is half reflective and half see-through!

[Pinoy2.0]

Nice update VZ. Where was that last shot taken?

[CGII]

What's going on at the bottom of that last pic?

[volguus zildrohar]

Dimensional nexus, CG. I was at the corner of First & First near the Ben Franklin Bridge.

[Jularc]

Blart and Simpfan... great shots. Take new construction photos but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold.

Original image shamelessly stolen from GarCastle.
Shitty photoshopping courtesy of my insomnia.

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k287/Eigenwelt/Misc/ComcastMod.jpg

Wow that is going to look so fantastic. Good job philly!

Off topic... Anyway looking at that pic, I still can't believe there still surface parking lots next to the Schuylkill river! With all the Philadelphia boom that is currently happening you will think that those lots will have been built already. Are there atleast any plans to built something there in the future? I am so glad they fix that factory building (lofts for sale) on the right of the photo there. That was one eyesore for the city for many years.

I mean those lots will be perfect to build for all of those New Yorkers buyers. So close to the train station to New York. They should be buying like crazy in Philly I would think. Many are been price out of New York, so Philly should be a good choice.

[volguus zildrohar]

That parking lot is part of the proposed Philadelphia River City development (check the Philly Rundown for that). There are already tons of projects on the boards for New Yorkers and upmarket types who may just happen to live closer to Philadelphia.

[tower]

4/9/07. a bit gloomy today!

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[Pinoy2.0]

Great shots Tower. You're right though, it's been gloomy and flat light here for a while it seems. Exit 23 looks like a good place to get my friend to pretend his car's broken down so I can break out the tripod :)

[bryson662001]

Never mind

[volguus zildrohar]

Nicely done, tower.

[IngisKahn]

Is that glass I see at the very bottom of the web cam? :)

[giovanni sasso]

by jove it looks like it may be, ingis. i counted 34 floors of glass yesterday:

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/diagram/COMCASTCENTERDIAGRAM_PROGRESS_070410.jpg

a few from this week ...

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc1244.jpg

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc1248.jpg

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc1252.jpg

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc1260.jpg

good climbin' and shootin' there, tower. good crawlin' and good shootin' there, volguus.

[JMininger]

I do believe I see glass peeking out of the bottom right-hand corner on the webcam!

[theWatusi]

nice touch with the cloud refelection on the update sasso. Awesome work as usuall.

[SJPhillyBoy]

I would estimate that Comcast Center will top out in about a month, which would be in the Mid-May timeframe. Won't be long now.

[giamomj]

- yeah - as of 2 p.m. today - the cut-outs in the top of the 57th floor concrete are now fitted with horizontal beams - defining the floor for the next levels. This, seen from Drexel's campus today.

Gia

:notacrook:

[donybrx]

^^^up-tight----outta sight......everything is alright.....as the cee-ment disappears for good......

[cactus22minus1]

Awesome pics as always, Mr. Sasso.

And Mr. Zildrohar... can I have some crab juice with that?

[StatenIslander237]

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc1248.jpg



What's with this gap in the cladding? When will it be covered back up?

[bryson662001]

Still my favorite view

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k50/bryson662001/IMG_0783.jpg

[SignLion]

What's up with that off-color piece of glass on the far right side in this picture?

In every photo from that angle it is the ugly duckling pane... it looks like one of the corner pieces instead.

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc1248.jpg

[JMininger]

My guess is that it is a broken panel and like they do in other construction projects, there is a temporary piece of wood there ... which sometimes they paint and sometimes not.

[skyscraper]

What's with this gap in the cladding? When will it be covered back up?

the cladding gap is to allow placement of the crane and temporary elevator without damaging the glass.

[giovanni sasso]

the cladding gap is to allow placement of the crane and temporary elevator without damaging the glass.

that's right -- you can see the crane tower and the supports which lift four hoists. this is the only side that has an opening this big. the south side has a small strip without glass but it will be installed soon, as the east crane will be dismantled soon. a separate crane will be installed on top of the building in the next couple weeks to assist with the crown.

http://phillyskyline.com/misc/wallpaper_070410.jpg

[DUBAI2015]

^^^ Like in the SWFC.
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/4766/1047181175423611nn7.jpg

[Muji]

As much as I like the SWFC's design, I've got to say that the glass is turning out a little better on this one ;)

[ATLksuGUY]

How awesome would it be if they just "extended" the roof about ohhh say about 25+ feet, and all of a sudden philly is one more american city with 1000+ footers.?? I SAY DOO IT!

[BonnerHighGuy]

Great Idea!!!!! I think your the first person on this thread to bring up this point:haha:

[RadHaz75]

theres now some kind of metal roof extending over the top of the core. is this gonna be the ceiling for the top floor?

[PhillyRising]

How awesome would it be if they just "extended" the roof about ohhh say about 25+ feet, and all of a sudden philly is one more american city with 1000+ footers.?? I SAY DOO IT!

All I can say to this....."Beware of the VZ!"

[skyscraper]

How awesome would it be if they just "extended" the roof about ohhh say about 25+ feet, and all of a sudden philly is one more american city with 1000+ footers.?? I SAY DOO IT!

1000 is a big round number. nothing else. it doesn't confer greatness upon a city or even a building.

[JMininger]

Agreed. Heck, we're the only country that measures things in feet anyway.

[volguus zildrohar]

The metal cap...home of the LMD?

The extra 25 feet? Start measuring from sea level, dude.

[Swinefeld]

1000 is a big round number. nothing else. it doesn't confer greatness upon a city or even a building.
And America is one of the few countries IN THE WORLD that still uses English measurements. Everyone else is on the metric system, so we're the only ones obsessing over feet and inches.

Oh, why did I drink all that crab juice? :yuck:

[colemonkee]

^ Mountain Dew!!?? I'll take the crab juice!

[GarCastle]

Incoming photograph spam on a dreary day.

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[PhillyGuy]

From Todays Inquirer:
Article Link (http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20070415_Water_to_tame_wind_atop_new_skyscraper.html)

Water to tame wind atop new skyscraper
By Tom Avril
Inquirer Staff Writer
Posted on Sun, Apr. 15, 2007

It's a great big bathtub in the sky, but hold the soap.

A 300,000-gallon, double-chambered tank of water is going in near the top of the Comcast Center - a creative solution by engineers to keep Philadelphia's tallest building from swaying too much in the wind.

The massive, sealed concrete container, which workers will start installing within weeks, will be the biggest "liquid-column damping" system in North America - and likely the world.

The tank isn't needed for structural safety, just for comfort, said engineers at Motioneering, the Canadian firm that designed it. The system is tuned so that if the building moves back and forth a few inches in high winds, water will slosh in the opposite direction - putting a damper on any unsettling motion for people on the upper floors.

"This is almost like a large waterbed," said John Gattuso, senior vice president for the developer, Liberty Property Trust.

At least a dozen such tanks have been installed since they came into vogue in the 1990s, but other kinds of dampers have been used for several decades. As architects have designed their skyscrapers to be ever loftier and more slender, engineers have resorted to a variety of means to keep the willowy wonders in check.

Some - such as Taiwan's Taipei 101, the world's tallest building - use a giant pendulum. Others use huge chunks of steel attached to springs.

Another option is simply to make a structure stiffer, as the Eagles are doing with the ramp that swayed on several occasions as fans left Lincoln Financial Field.

But a damper is an elegant design solution for today's svelte skyscraper. The key is that the pendulum or water moves back and forth at the same "natural frequency" as the building it's in - but in the opposite direction.

The Comcast Center, for example, is expected to oscillate once every seven seconds when deflected by the wind, Motioneering's Guy Ferguson said. The water will slosh in the opposite direction in the tank's twin U-shaped chambers.

The motion of the water, pendulum or other mass helps offset any wind-induced acceleration felt by people in the building.

In addition, energy from this motion is absorbed by some sort of attached device, such as a hydraulic cylinder, and dissipated as heat. Otherwise, the building would rock longer. A car's shock absorbers work on the same principle.

In water tanks like the Comcast Center's, the energy is dissipated by vertical steel vanes, or louvers, that impede the back-and-forth flow of water.

Engineers expect tall buildings to give a bit, and the Comcast Center will be no different. A 75-m.p.h. wind would move the top floors about 18 inches, said Anjana Kadakia, project manager for Thornton Thomasetti, the firm that did the structural engineering.

The damping system doesn't prevent this kind of deflection. Rather, it makes the motion subside more quickly. If you imagine the building's movement as a wavy line on a graph, the wave would flatten out sooner on a building with a damper.

In high winds, the tank should reduce by about one-third the acceleration that a person would feel on the upper floors, said Ferguson, project manager for the water tank.

Engineers around the world have begun to choose water for some damping projects in part because it is cheaper than steel, and because pumping water to the top of a building is easy. In areas prone to earthquakes, the water also can be used as a backup supply for sprinklers, said Leighton Cochran, president of the American Association for Wind Engineering. The Philadelphia tank will not serve that purpose, however.

The developer of another building with a water-tank damper, One Wall Centre in Vancouver, was somewhat skeptical of the idea - at first.

"I've been up there many times on a windy day, especially when we were getting it finished, to see if this thing actually works," said Bruno Wall, president of Wall Financial Corp.

Now his top-floor tenants say the building never sways enough to make a ripple in their morning cup of coffee.

"It makes a remarkable difference," Wall said.

The Wall building is about half the height of the 975-foot Comcast Center. Its tank contains 460 tons of water.

The Philadelphia tank will hold 1,300 tons, and has piqued the interest of the local engineering community. Kadakia spoke at the Union League on Thursday about the tank and other design features, addressing a dinner meeting of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia and the local section of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Because there's no sunlight in the sealed tank, algae won't be a problem.

Some tall buildings, such as Chicago's Sears Tower, have no dampers, said John Zils, structural engineer for that project. Older buildings tend to be thicker and stiffer and don't need them. And in New York the buildings shield one another from the wind, said Cochran, of the wind engineering association.

For buildings in earthquake zones, hydraulic dampers are sometimes used to offset vibrations. Water-tank dampers aren't ideal for that purpose, and are used merely to make people feel at ease.

And that's no small thing, said Cochran, a principal of CPP Inc. in Colorado.

"As one of my clients said to me once," he quipped, "people who can afford the top floor or penthouse also can afford a pretty good lawyer."

[kraggman]

Long time observer, first post.
Just noticed that the Motioneering website list the CC as 1009 feet.
Was that the original plan?? Or is there a surprise in the works ???

Link: http://www.motioneering.ca/User/Doc/pp_comcast_center.pdf

[giovanni sasso]

welcome to the nuthouse, kraggman. motioneering lists comcast center at 1009' since they measure it by the built structure. that is, the foundation pit is 34' deep, so from the very bottom of the product man has built to the top of the crown, it's 1009'. just like from sea level, it's ... whatever that figure posted a couple pages ago was. the standard form of measure is from street level, which is interesting in CC's case since there's an eight foot incline from arch street (975') to JFK blvd, the actual address of the building.

thanks for posting that link, phillyguy. motioneering do great work on high profile projects (taipei 101, bloomberg tower, the skywalk at the grand canyon), so it's nice to have them in town.

[kraggman]

welcome to the nuthouse, kraggman. motioneering lists comcast center at 1009' since they measure it by the built structure. that is, the foundation pit is 34' deep, so from the very bottom of the product man has built to the top of the crown, it's 1009'. just like from sea level, it's ... whatever that figure posted a couple pages ago was. the standard form of measure is from street level, which is interesting in CC's case since there's an eight foot incline from arch street (975') to JFK blvd, the actual address of the building.

thanks for posting that link, phillyguy. motioneering do great work on high profile projects (taipei 101, bloomberg tower, the skywalk at the grand canyon), so it's nice to have them in town.

Thanks for the explanation......a rookie mistake !! lol

[CGII]

The extra 25 feet? Start measuring from sea level, dude.

So Milwaukee's 500'ers are really 1200'ers? That means my house alone is taller than most buildings in NY. :D

[joecool]

Love the building. Philly and Atlanta always have the best towers. They are my fav 2 skylines. Cities like Houston, Boston, Miami, SUCK. Seattle is ok. But Philly and Atlanta have awesome skylines.

Atlanta
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d25/joeyhowell/atlanta.jpg

Philadelphia
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d25/joeyhowell/philly.jpg

Can't beat those. Other than New York I guess, lol.

[ATLksuGUY]

And America is one of the few countries IN THE WORLD that still uses English measurements. Everyone else is on the metric system, so we're the only ones obsessing over feet and inches.

Oh, why did I drink all that crab juice? :yuck:

Well this is true, but we are americans and this is an american city so yes, i would be proud to have one more 1000+ F O O T E R if it ever happens.

[buildup]

Those in the metric countries obsess over 300 meter buildings. Be it in feet or meters, 1000 ft (300 M) has become our definition of a supertall skyscraper.

[Late1]

Then those with round-number fixations will be (un)happy to know that Comcast's height in meters will be "just" 297 :D

[JMininger]

Then those with round-number fixations will be (un)happy to know that Comcast's height in meters will be "just" 297 :D

:tantrum:

[KenSchwartz]

Due to massive public demand, the Comcast Corporation along with Robert A. M. Stern Architects have agreed to alter it's iconic Comcast Center building plan slightly in order to become Philadelphia's first higher-than 1000 foot building.
"We had previously thought that we had a pretty nice design going on, but in the last few hours it has dawned on us - we just needed 25 more feet to become that much more symbolic for some reason." said Art Greenberg, of Robert A. M. Stern Architects, in an anonymous interview. "We decided to suprise Philadelphia, and all the world, with a last minute alteration to satisfy both the city, and our, overwhelming demand for a supertall within Center City's borders."

As part of their financing plan to redesign their coutyard, Centre Square has loaned out the familiar "Clothespin" sculpure, originally designed in 1976 by Claes Oldenburg, and will be replacing it with three ugly Wire-Mesh-type Liberty Bells in the near future. The Clothespin itself will be cleaned, polished, then masterfully duct-taped to the top of the the now almost-complete Comcast Center. At 45 feet tall, with 10 feet of structural overlap, this combination create an artistic blend that will result in a brand new 1010 foot supertall Comcast/Clothespin mix that all Philadelphians can, and surely will, be proud of.

"You were right, Philadelphia - it really WAS worth it! Go Eagles!"

Artist's rendering of the new supertall structure provided by AP:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t161/KS1982/Comcastv2.gif

[Eigenwelt]

Now that's what I call a good first post.

[CHAPINM1]

That puts the Comcast Center around 1,200 feet, way to go Philly!!! :haha:

[EDDYC]

I think he is joking with you. :haha: :haha: :haha:

[Complex01]

[QUOTE=joecool;2770191]Love the building. Philly and Atlanta always have the best towers. They are my fav 2 skylines. Cities like Houston, Boston, Miami, SUCK. Seattle is ok. But Philly and Atlanta have awesome skylines.
[QUOTE]


Well i have never been to atlanta, i have been to philly (just last month), and i have to disagree with you. Seattle, Miami, and to a certain degree Houston, have awesome skylines. (Having lived in Seattle and Houston) But everyone has their own taste, and thats kewl. I really do like this building though, it will look very nice...


:yes:

[Downtown Bolivar]

Artist's rendering of the new supertall structure provided by AP:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t161/KS1982/Comcastv2.gif

Classic!:haha:

[CHAPINM1]

I think he is joking with you. :haha: :haha: :haha:

I know, I'm just being a smartass... hehehehe... :D

[PhillyRising]

Then those with round-number fixations will be (un)happy to know that Comcast's height in meters will be "just" 297 :D

Jason...that You Tube video of you is hysterical!!!!!! Although...shouldn't your wig been a Bubble Flip to be "That Girl"?

To keep on topic...only size queens fret over 1000 feet. :D

[kraggman]

The clothespin rocks !!!! :haha: :haha: :haha:

[russbaseball]

This was in the philly inquirer yesterday.. pretty amazing.

Water to tame wind atop new skyscraper
By Tom Avril
Inquirer Staff Writer
RELATED STORIES
Watch animation of a water tank designed to counteract swaying in a skyscraper
It's a great big bathtub in the sky, but hold the soap.
A 300,000-gallon, double-chambered tank of water is going in near the top of the Comcast Center - a creative solution by engineers to keep Philadelphia's tallest building from swaying too much in the wind.

The massive, sealed concrete container, which workers will start installing within weeks, will be the biggest "liquid-column damping" system in North America - and likely the world.

The tank isn't needed for structural safety, just for comfort, said engineers at Motioneering, the Canadian firm that designed it. The system is tuned so that if the building moves back and forth a few inches in high winds, water will slosh in the opposite direction - putting a damper on any unsettling motion for people on the upper floors.

"This is almost like a large waterbed," said John Gattuso, senior vice president for the developer, Liberty Property Trust.

At least a dozen such tanks have been installed since they came into vogue in the 1990s, but other kinds of dampers have been used for several decades. As architects have designed their skyscrapers to be ever loftier and more slender, engineers have resorted to a variety of means to keep the willowy wonders in check.

Some - such as Taiwan's Taipei 101, the world's tallest building - use a giant pendulum. Others use huge chunks of steel attached to springs.

Another option is simply to make a structure stiffer, as the Eagles are doing with the ramp that swayed on several occasions as fans left Lincoln Financial Field.

But a damper is an elegant design solution for today's svelte skyscraper. The key is that the pendulum or water moves back and forth at the same "natural frequency" as the building it's in - but in the opposite direction.

The Comcast Center, for example, is expected to oscillate once every seven seconds when deflected by the wind, Motioneering's Guy Ferguson said. The water will slosh in the opposite direction in the tank's twin U-shaped chambers.

The motion of the water, pendulum or other mass helps offset any wind-induced acceleration felt by people in the building.

In addition, energy from this motion is absorbed by some sort of attached device, such as a hydraulic cylinder, and dissipated as heat. Otherwise, the building would rock longer. A car's shock absorbers work on the same principle.

In water tanks like the Comcast Center's, the energy is dissipated by vertical steel vanes, or louvers, that impede the back-and-forth flow of water.

Engineers expect tall buildings to give a bit, and the Comcast Center will be no different. A 75-m.p.h. wind would move the top floors about 18 inches, said Anjana Kadakia, project manager for Thornton Thomasetti, the firm that did the structural engineering.

The damping system doesn't prevent this kind of deflection. Rather, it makes the motion subside more quickly. If you imagine the building's movement as a wavy line on a graph, the wave would flatten out sooner on a building with a damper.

In high winds, the tank should reduce by about one-third the acceleration that a person would feel on the upper floors, said Ferguson, project manager for the water tank.

Engineers around the world have begun to choose water for some damping projects in part because it is cheaper than steel, and because pumping water to the top of a building is easy. In areas prone to earthquakes, the water also can be used as a backup supply for sprinklers, said Leighton Cochran, president of the American Association for Wind Engineering. The Philadelphia tank will not serve that purpose, however.

The developer of another building with a water-tank damper, One Wall Centre in Vancouver, was somewhat skeptical of the idea - at first.

"I've been up there many times on a windy day, especially when we were getting it finished, to see if this thing actually works," said Bruno Wall, president of Wall Financial Corp.

Now his top-floor tenants say the building never sways enough to make a ripple in their morning cup of coffee.

"It makes a remarkable difference," Wall said.

The Wall building is about half the height of the 975-foot Comcast Center. Its tank contains 460 tons of water.

The Philadelphia tank will hold 1,300 tons, and has piqued the interest of the local engineering community. Kadakia spoke at the Union League on Thursday about the tank and other design features, addressing a dinner meeting of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia and the local section of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Because there's no sunlight in the sealed tank, algae won't be a problem.

Some tall buildings, such as Chicago's Sears Tower, have no dampers, said John Zils, structural engineer for that project. Older buildings tend to be thicker and stiffer and don't need them. And in New York the buildings shield one another from the wind, said Cochran, of the wind engineering association.

For buildings in earthquake zones, hydraulic dampers are sometimes used to offset vibrations. Water-tank dampers aren't ideal for that purpose, and are used merely to make people feel at ease.

And that's no small thing, said Cochran, a principal of CPP Inc. in Colorado.

"As one of my clients said to me once," he quipped, "people who can afford the top floor or penthouse also can afford a pretty good lawyer."

[Lincolndrive]

I'm surprised no one has posted this yet but earlier today there was a fairly large fire around the 45 floor (on the south facing side) of the comcast tower. I think everything has been cleared up but the smoke was billowing out about 1.5 hours ago. Hopefully everyone's alright.

[giamomj]

According to KYW Radio 1060 - the fire was on the 17th floor....who knows. They did saw it "seemed small and contained, but there was a lot of Fire Department activity at the site," and traffice was blocked.

Hope it doesn't delay further construction too much.

Gia

:notacrook:

[winxs]

Subject: Alert Philadelphia

A small fire was reported on an upper floor at the construction site of
the Comcast building located at 17th & Arch Streets but it has been
extinguished. The Police and Fire Departments are on location and will
be re-directing traffic until the area is cleared of all the fire
equipment. No injuries reported.

Thank you.

Sent by Stacy Irving to Center City District PCAN, Law Enforcement
(e-mail accounts) through Alert Philadelphia

[Urban Iguana]

I was driving through the city that morning and had my camera so I took a few quick shots. I hope this doesn't delay construction.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e377/anglagard/DSC06318.jpg

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e377/anglagard/DSC06319.jpg

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e377/anglagard/DSC06316.jpg

[JMininger]

The amount of smoke sure seems like it was a bigger fire than the impression I got from the news. Considering the floor it was on though, I can't imagine it would delay much of anything ... except to wait for the inspections that probably took place afterwards. More than anything, that nice little nor'easter that came through probably caused more delays than the fire did.

[russbaseball]

new heights.. ther putting up steel over the core now :)

[colemonkee]

Probably a welding fire. It's actually quite common on construction sites, believe it or not. Unless someone is hurt - which doesn't appear to be the case here - it shouldn't delay construction more than the time it takes to clear the area.

There was a similar fire in L.A. at a construction site last week, and the pictures from the scene looked like a bomb went off, but the damage ws inconsequential, there were no injuries and construction was humming right along later that day.

[PhillyRising]

new heights.. ther putting up steel over the core now :)

Yes! Has it officially passed 1LP yet? It's really hard to tell...they look about the same height right now.

[sbarn]

Wow, this tower turned out better than I expected!! It seems like its the perfect height to compliment the skyline and great choice in the glass curtain wall...

:)

[GarCastle]

Definitely some steel up there. Telling by the ladder in the close-up, there is a definite setback there too.

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/8513/dscn0318zi2.jpg

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/3294/dscn0320oj4.jpg

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/1520/dscn0322kc4.jpg

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/9304/dscn0325db4.jpg

[MetroSplash]

Did anybody else catch them cleaning the Atrium glass this afternoon. When I was there, it looked like they were almost done. Looks much better then before.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j207/Metrosplash/DSC00100.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j207/Metrosplash/DSC00097.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j207/Metrosplash/DSC00102.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j207/Metrosplash/DSC00104.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j207/Metrosplash/DSC00107.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j207/Metrosplash/DSC00112.jpg

[DUBAI2015]

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j207/Metrosplash/DSC00100.jpg


Why is there a big gap in the floorplates?

[PhillyRising]

Why is there a big gap in the floorplates?


It's part of the design. Go to the the first page of the thread for the renderings...and you'll see!

[PhillyRising]

Great pictures MetroSplash!!! I know I wouldn't want to be the one on a rope on the side of the building cleaning those windows!

[StatenIslander237]

NOICE!!!!
the suspense is killing me. AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[volguus zildrohar]

April 21:

Did I see any of you people while I was out doing this? There were lots of folks snapping away at the building.

http://www.pbase.com/image/77533215.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/77533216.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/77533218.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/77533217.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/77533220.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/77533219.jpg

[Hoplite330]

Those are nice pictures! Definitely going to Philly once it's done.

[giovanni sasso]

i don't know if you saw me, volguus, but i was out there yesterday too. i didn't catch the window washers but i saw this angry fellow in a ralph wiggum t-shirt ...

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc1303.jpg

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc1313.jpg

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/diagram/COMCASTCENTERDIAGRAM_PROGRESS_070422.jpg

[Milllos]

Yes!! Topped out until june :banana:

[Pinoy2.0]

Gio...LOL.

I should know this...

the white "tarp" floor...
above it is un-fireproof floors
"tarp floor" is fireproofing
below tarp floor is fireproofed

right?

[spiderblues]

I was out yesterday as well & took a few pics.

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h105/spiderblues/Comcast%20Center/_ROD0007.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h105/spiderblues/Comcast%20Center/_ROD0016.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h105/spiderblues/Comcast%20Center/_ROD0019.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h105/spiderblues/Comcast%20Center/_ROD0034.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h105/spiderblues/Comcast%20Center/_ROD0064.jpg

[cactus22minus1]

Sasso, that first image is REdiculous! Clever lighting system you have there. :) Oh, and your shots are so wide... what kind of lens is that? It looks like 10mm or something.

[GarCastle]

Early bird, worm, you get the idea. Some verticals up this morning.
http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/1028/dscn0334na0.jpg

[donybrx]

Thanks GarC...this is getting truly (even more) interesting to watch as the steel moves into new territory and patterns.....

People have been living for this moment. Not me, tho.... :)

[volguus zildrohar]

Oh lawd...

[Benhamin]

Fucking beautiful.

[BigDan35]

When do you guys think the exterior of Comcast will be completely finished? Meaning...topped out, full crown at the top, and 100% covered in glass?

[RadHaz75]

When do you guys think the exterior of Comcast will be completely finished? Meaning...topped out, full crown at the top, and 100% covered in glass?

around 3:30, 4 o'clock maybe

[phillyskyline]

Just like Comcast Center - VZ's a Philadelphia icon!!!

[PhillyRising]

Just like Comcast Center - VZ's a Philadelphia icon!!!


:)

He's definelty one of our best Ambassador's.

[DUBAI2015]

http://www.skyscrapersunset.com/skyscrapercity/phl/comcast/rendering050404.jpg
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j207/Metrosplash/DSC00100.jpg

Now I see why there is a gap in the floor plates.

[Daquan13]

This might be a silly time to ask, but does anyone know if this tower will feature an obs deck at all?

[Pinoy2.0]

^nope

[SJPhillyBoy]

That Sasso pic of VZ is SURREAL in a way I can't explain...maybe other worldy.

[TheMeltyMan]

Holy crap, is the comcast getting lit up like this? I'm pretty sure its just construction lights but I had no idea the glass would illuminate like that.

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc1313.jpg

[Muji]

Isn't that a reflection of the sunset that's doing that?

[BUILDER5000]

I think it's the glass absorbing the blue colors from the Cira Center bldg being that it was extremely blue last night

[Pinoy2.0]

that picture is all sass-afied

[Capsule F]

The corners will light up, and we really haven't had much of a taste of that. I'm sure it will be pretty breathtaking.

[skellergroup]

Was there ever an official rendering of how CC's exterior lights will look?

[theWatusi]

:previous: Was there ever an official rendering of how CC's exterior lights will look?
Click back a few pages, one of the forumers did an excellent job.

BTW skeller, I went to your website and it took me 4 clicks and sitting through alot of flash before I saw what kind of company it is. If I were a prospective client, I would be annoyed. Also your yahoo email account is not very professional. Cant you set up an info@yourdomain.com?

Not trying to be picky, but just offering some constructive ideas. :cheers:

[skellergroup]

:previous:
Click back a few pages, one of the forumers did an excellent job.

BTW skeller, I went to your website and it took me 4 clicks and sitting through alot of flash before I saw what kind of company it is. If I were a prospective client, I would be annoyed. Also your yahoo email account is not very professional. Cant you set up an info@yourdomain.com?

Not trying to be picky, but just offering some constructive ideas. :cheers:

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Agreed. And thanks. It's a very old site. Badly needs to be updated. It's more of a hobby than anything else. :)

[apetrella802]

maybe we can call the inigmatic blue color in the previous pic UFO BLUE!

[russbaseball]

They are taking down that sample of the building infront of cc.. i guess its not of any use since the glass is going up.