[bryson662001]

I love those shots from Chinatown......they make you stop and wonder where in the world you are.

I haven't posted one of these in awhile.....and I can't explain the color of the sky.
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k50/bryson662001/Jan-27-0526.jpg

[theWatusi]

I suppose I'll complete the circle...these are since Thursday.



http://www.pbase.com/phillytrax/image/73370038/original.jpg

What is the thing poking out of the top of the core? Is that the crane they are erecting, or is it the boom for the concrete pump?

[giovanni sasso]

that's the concrete pump, watusi. after this coming week, we won't be seeing that any longer.

some from the past few days ...

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc936.jpg

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc928.jpg

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc920.jpg

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc917.jpg

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc900.jpg

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc932.jpg

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc921.jpg

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

[Awkab]

[color=navy]
http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc921.jpg

Nice pics as always Gio. I'm so glad to see visual confirmation that the corner panels will indeed be lit up by LED's...this building is going to be a real stunner at night!

[Pinoy2.0]

Love all those shots Sasso...esp. the last one at Penn.

[RadHaz75]

i was driving down kelly drive today towards the city and it looked like half of the slip forms were down, i couldnt tell for sure cuz i was concentrating on not dieing, but it looked like the top of the core was exposed. subsequently that would be a great shot if anyones ever in the area around kelly and fountain green dr.

[IngisKahn]

Surprise, surprise.
The forms went up.

[SJPhillyBoy]

Then you were correct in your original floor count IngisKahn and the floor count we have been maintaining on the core concrete pour was incorrect.

[Lincolndrive]

Surprise, surprise.
The forms went up.

Yea, I noticed that today. I'm really confused now. Are they going to pour another floor or is this part of the process to remove the forms from the concrete core?

[IngisKahn]

Ya, my guess is it's part of the removal. We'll see.

I wish they could put that web cam up higher, it's really hard to make out anything at the current angle.

We should see the indent in the steel this week.

[volguus zildrohar]

Go Penn! Go Libs! Go!

The images that did not succumb to CA are before you now.

http://www.pbase.com/phillytrax/image/73776780.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/phillytrax/image/73776781/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/phillytrax/image/73776782.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/phillytrax/image/73776784.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/phillytrax/image/73776785.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/phillytrax/image/73776787.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/phillytrax/image/73776789.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/phillytrax/image/73776790.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/phillytrax/image/73776791.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/phillytrax/image/73776788.jpg

[Joey D]

So done, yet so unfinished.

My mind also keeps wanting to close the top up like a spire for some reason, yet I know it will be flat.

This happening to anyone else?

[donybrx]

Swell pics Mr. Z;

Those with views down 17th Street and across Arch Street that show Comcast & Lib 1 framing the narrow 17th, and Comcast and BAT framing narrow Arch are especially exciting.....sooooo imposing....

[TheOldMan]

i am lovin that Glass. nice pics Gio/VZ !!

[Pinoy2.0]

I was all ambitious to shoot photos all night tonight until my freaking pointer finger fell off.

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/6429/dsc0026ly7.jpg

we're gettin' close boys!

[SaxySteve29]

I've been wondering what a picture from the Art Museum steps would look like. It seems as though it will tower over the city from that view. I also agree with RadHaz75 that a picture from Kelly drive would be amazing. Too bad I'm at school in Pittsburgh right now and can't take the picture myself.

[volguus zildrohar]

You really can't see it from Kelly Drive save for a few odd stretches. MLK Drive even might be wonky. I want my classic General Platt Bridge view.

[RadHaz75]

You really can't see it from Kelly Drive save for a few odd stretches. MLK Drive even might be wonky. I want my classic General Platt Bridge view.

I don't know what you're talking about! I was able to see it fine while driving, and a lot of it, though maybe you're referring to so many of the bridges obstructing it at certain points. It was a really nice shot as well, if you have some time, take a drive out there. This direction is actually one of my fav views of the city.

[IngisKahn]

Woot.
The steel is going up for 50/51. We have to see the indent this time.

Someone at the top of Mellon set up a web cam. It's getting real hard to see. :p

[phillyskyline]

Damn Pinoy thats a stellar image!

[Wheelingman04]

It is just incredible watching this thing rise.

[LostInTheZone]

as excited as I am to see this thing finished, I wonder if I'm going to miss the visual solidity of all that steel. This building is going to vanish into the sky in some lights, even moreso than Cira does.

[giovanni sasso]

i dunno, ingis, our counts have been spotty and we're counting from the ground up (or from webcams). i think they're right now on 49 horizontally, and 49 is the floor serving the bottom end of the southern keyhole. vertically, i think they're at 51. i counted 49 in person on wednesday morning. i step out onto my deck every morning to see if the cutout is noticeable yet. it's got to be next week.

check out the difference in color from the corner columns and the main curtain wall from yesterday:

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc943.jpg

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc948.jpg

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc949.jpg

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/diagram/COMCASTCENTERDIAGRAM_PROGRESS_070201.jpg

[MJPhilly]

Thanks for the great updates guys. I've been stuck in Sacramento for most of the year so far, so it's nice to see the progress.

[IngisKahn]

Yep, they're pouring the core. I would guess that this is the final time.

[donybrx]

Now..about the topping out........6 more weeks? I'm hoping to be in Philly...all too briefly March 3....but I don't see it happening by that time....unless they start riveting like a bugger... :)

[skyscraper]

Now..about the topping out........6 more weeks? I'm hoping to be in Philly...all to briefly March 3....but I don't see it happening by that time....unless they start riveting like a bugger... :)

they don't rivet any more. they use high-strength bolts. it only takes 2 lesser-skilled people versus 4 higher-skilled laborers on a rivet gang. they did away with rivets in about the 1950s or so.

[donybrx]

they don't rivet any more. they use high-strength bolts. it only takes 2 lesser-skilled people versus 4 higher-skilled laborers on a rivet gang. they did away with rivets in about the 1950s or so.

Of course..... I was just cuttin' up....I'll take any opportunity to utilize frog sounds....you know..rivet, ribbit...needeep...:)

Now, what about the topping out?

[volguus zildrohar]

RadHaz, depends how far up The Drive you are, I suppose.

[McBane]

wow. if the core is 900 ft...just makes me appreciate bridgeman's view even more!

[Capsule F]

I agree with volg on the fact that trying to spot Comcast on Kelly drive is quite difficult most of the time because of the trees, angles, and bridges. Not to mention, who wants to take their eyes off the road on that snake path where the median speed is 20 above the limit of (35). Its a very scenic ride though.

[Swinefeld]

Today, February 3rd.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e388/Swinefeld/New%20Constructon/CCFeb07-2.jpg

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e388/Swinefeld/New%20Constructon/CCFeb07.jpg

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e388/Swinefeld/New%20Constructon/CCPano.jpg

[giovanni sasso]

:sly:

got my eye on you, sonny ... maybe literally. from the light in those pictures, it looks like you were standing on spring garden bridge around the time i was standing on MLK drive bridge right below you. what time d'you take those? i was there about 3 or so.

i like the last shot ... i am not normally an advocate for mass tree clearing, but doing so really made the top part of the schuylkill river path much more attractive and, i think, safe, considering the vagrants who used to(?) hang on the bank at night. it'll be even nicer if they ever build the skate park and get that little portion lit up.

while i was out MLK, i got an update of the rendering officially used by liberty and stern:

http://phillyskyline.com/123abc/comcastrender.jpg
http://phillyskyline.com/123abc/comcast070203.jpg

if you have firefox, open those two pics in separate tabs and click between 'em. it's like highlights, note the differences.

did i just reference highlights? how old am i, 9?

http://www.highlights.com/images/us/local/newsroom/imglib/GoofusGallant_Oct1980_lg.jpg

this one was taken about 45 minutes ago. mellon bank center went buffalo wing gold for the wing bowl this weekend!

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc950.jpg

[RadHaz75]

:sly:
if you have firefox, open those two pics in separate tabs and click between 'em. it's like highlights, note the differences.

that is amazing :worship: , you really have an eye, perhaps even two if you're lucky!

lets see here, wee have edgewater in the pic, a crane next to the flagpole (which also now has a flag) in front of the museum and the leaves appear to have disappeared from the trees, possibly due to a rip in the flux capacitor

[Swinefeld]

Well, call me Goofus. I'm guessing I took the pics around 3:30.

And the before and after pictures, magnifique!

[Eigenwelt]

In Swine's photos, the way the western half of Cira desolves into the sky is breathtaking!


did i just reference highlights? how old am i, 9?


Ha... next you'll be name dropping Ranger Rick.

Amazing job on the update photo. You nailed that almost to a pixel. I only wish the "Philadelphia: Then and Now" books were as precise.

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k287/Eigenwelt/Comcast%20Center/Comcastfeb2.jpg

From last night, as I walked back to my car from the Sheraton.

[Fabb]

http://phillyskyline.com/123abc/comcast070203.jpg

Looks like Mellon has got itself a super-spire.

[Awkab]

Good eye on matching that shot Gio!

I did a quick photoshop job to compare the render to what the final product is shaping up to be. Whoever did that render really wanted to Comcast Center to look like a fat-ass glass block in the city...there is really quite a difference between the rendering and the actual product.

http://www.pbase.com/awkab/image/73948082/original.jpg

[tower]

nice comparisons here

contribution to the classroom:
http://www.pbase.com/two1five/image/73952962/original.jpg

[giovanni sasso]

nice work on that, awkab. they really overshot the width, but i think the height is pretty accurate. there's still 99' of steel going above the concrete core, so that photoshopping gives a good idea of how far we're going. awesome.

EDIT: nice work also, tower. killer.

i wonder when the photo for the official rendering was taken ... i had to climb through some shrubbery on the banks along MLK to get that shot. i wrote about this several months ago, but that particular vantage point is the PERFECT location for a wooden pier and observation area. it's close enough to the east bank of the schuylkill river path that it's walkable for neighbors and tourists using the path, it's right on the curve of the river, and it's at the foot of a former footbridge that connected MLK drive with the zoo across 76. i suppose there's no way to guarantee the footbridge would be used, but in my ideal mind, it would be a great way to get to the zoo and enjoy a postcard view of the skyline. right now, the only way to get from MLK to the zoo is to go way past girard ave and double back on sweetbriar. anyhoo.

said picture taken while the swinenator was right above:

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc958.jpg

and a few more from yesterday ...

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc956.jpg

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc960.jpg

for volguus:
http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc963.jpg

(no, i don't know that dude.)

[MJPhilly]

Awesome renderings guys. I like the thinner version of the tower much better. Seems like the not only fattened it up in the rendering, but also moved it south a little to better show the design, rather than have it blocked by the Bell Atlantic Tower. It may have been unintentional.

they don't rivet any more. they use high-strength bolts.
You're right, I have one sitting on my coffee table that I swiped from the site. They're a bout 3/4" diameter by 3" long.

[giovanni sasso]

allll righty, here's one more projection, based off of tower's handiwork. as we've all seen as the glass has been installed, it's waaay more reflective than we originally thought.

ergo,

http://phillyskyline.com/123abc/comcast_projected.jpg

[Awkab]

^ wow...nice job Gio!!!!!

This thinner version looks much better in the skyline, and (at least to me) appears taller. Even though it dominates the skyline because of its height, the reflective glass makes it blend into the sky and its surroundings at the same time.

I think this tower will accomplish what Stern originally had set out to achieve when he designed the old 718' tower: to design a skyscraper in Philly that would be timeless and not compete with the flashy skyscraper designs of the past in Philly.

[Pinoy2.0]

Awesome rendering Sasso.

[Swinefeld]

said picture taken while the swinenator was right above:

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc958.jpg
You sensed my evil presence through the bridge?

The last rendering you did is outstanding. I feel that's what the final product will look like.

Smashing. :tup:

[looper121]

Gio, great rendering!

[tower]

nice sasso

with our powers combined we are captain planet

[SJPhillyBoy]

Nice photos and renderings ALL!!

Murano would really show up in this Sasso photo.
http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc958.jpg

[Pennsgrant]

Why you little........

http://www2.psy.ohio-state.edu/NPSA/photogallery/2005.11.11-14%20Neuroscience/homer%20drool.gif

That is too much.:banana:






http://phillyskyline.com/123abc/comcast_projected.jpg

[Joey D]

Those renderings knocked me on my ass

Good work.

Anybody got a South St. Bridge shot as of late??

[StatenIslander237]

Great photos everyone! I can't believe how fast this building grew!

I get a kick out of the Cira Center in these pictures. The massing of the building looks so odd compared to the taller, thinner buildings downtown.

[LostInTheZone]

this building is starting to look REALLY big. It's definitely improving the view coming in on on the R7 over the Zoo bridge.

[giovanni sasso]

Anybody got a South St. Bridge shot as of late??


http://phillyskyline.com/misc/comcast_ssb0701.jpg

[Pinoy2.0]

Sasso, I forget, is that (south street) bridge doable with a tripod at night or no?

If I remember correctly, if you set up a tripod, then it blocks the entire sidewalk...right?

[giovanni sasso]

it depends how big your tripod is. it's a pretty wide sidewalk, and there are places where it's easier to set up than others, like the north side at the exit ramp, where the view is unimpeded and there aren't any pedestrians since the north side is closed. (you can still cross at a green light and that corner is open and wide enough to set up a shot.)

[k2wilde]

Well, I finally fixed what some idiot did to my computer, and now have a new image to post. It's from Sunday Afternoon 4Feb07 while stopped at West Chester Pike and Route 320. It's a little blurred, sorry no tripod today.http://img02.picoodle.com/img/img02/7/2/5/f_4Feb07WCPi_6adam_c74b055.png

Cheers,
Rob

[MJPhilly]

Great shot Rob. I love seeing those new distant angles.

[Joey D]

http://phillyskyline.com/misc/comcast_ssb0701.jpg

Grazie mi amico

Che bella

[RadHaz75]

gio, your avatar is awesome, your timing is impeccable with the helicopter flying by in the one pic, is there anything you can't do?

so this week should the slip forms come completely off?

[H-Ville Man]

Gio- Great job on the shots.....

I am really surprised how fat/wide the renderings look like compared to the finished product. From the renderings, I was actually a little worried CC would overpower the west end of skyline and be an enormous white elephant.

[williamphilapa]

Gio's photos...better the Comcast On-Demand :)

[jvolkman]

New guy here.

Thanks for the wealth of information you guys have accumulated here over the past couple of years. I just stumbled across the site over the past weekend and read through many of the old posts.

I'm actually one of the lucky Comcast employees that will be moving into this new building, supposedly towards the end of this year (I'll be on one of the lower floors). Exciting!

Jeremy

[bryson662001]

Another view


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

[achilies]

Not a good pic at all.

[RadHaz75]

Not a good pic at all.

:whatthefuck:

hey, thanks for your contributions. your pictures have been spectacu... oh, i thought you might have posted some pics since you were criticizing others, but i appear to have been mistaken.

[McBane]

Not a good pic at all.

How many pics have you posted? When you become a seasoned veteran whose posted and photoshopped hundreds of pics for the benefit of all to see (NOT 7 total posts), then maybe maybe you can say something like that.

Bryson, nice work, it's a hell of a lot better than anything I can do. I guess cuz this is a Comcast thread, I didn't notice at first that you inserted the Murano and RATR. Is the Murano going to be that close to the western (1 or 2?) Commerce Sq. tower? Anyway, looks great thanks for sharing.

[mmikeyphilly]

I totally agree with you McBane,

Ive always admired Bryson's renderings...:tup:

[donybrx]

Not a good pic at all.

Not a good post at all....

sorry you feel that way.....

Bryson's pic is just fine; takes skill that I sure haven't yet achieved or even taken time to attempt.....

[achilies]

It's my opinion. If I want to say it, I will. So relax and get over it.

[IngisKahn]

Man, you all took the troll bait.

Nothing new to report from the webcam, there's been no change up top since Friday.

[theWatusi]

Awesome,

CC is going to be a great new focal point of the skyline.

Bryson, how would Mandeville look in that shot? Or River (Sim) City? :D

Or even BVT in the background?

Great work!

[McBane]

It's my opinion. If I want to say it, I will. So relax and get over it.

It's easy to say it sucks. Why don't you try posting a better picture?

[bryson662001]

Awesome,

CC is going to be a great new focal point of the skyline.

Bryson, how would Mandeville look in that shot? Or River (Sim) City? :D

Or even BVT in the background?

Great work!

Actually the original rendering had Mandeville in it when I found it......it may have been in one of the early advertisements I can't remember. I removed Mandeville from the picture because I don't believe it can happen in the next 10 years or so if ever. Same goes for River City. As for Comcast I tried to capture the sense of a shimmering mirrored finish that's kind of wavy because that is what I am seeing so far as I walk past it.

[Eigenwelt]

I thought your work on the reflection aspects of the cladding were very well done Bryson. The only critical point I could mention is that you de-emphasized the tapering elements of the design. The result looks a little more blocky then the final product. However, it's only a matter of a few degrees of angle. The rendering shows a fairly close approximation of what that view will look like when finished.

And boy, will Comcast look great! :slob:

Awesome,
CC is going to be a great new focal point of the skyline.
Bryson, how would Mandeville look in that shot? Or River (Sim) City? :D
Or even BVT in the background?


It's a different view, but this actually has the three projects you mentioned. I'm currently working on adding Murano and RatR. Each new project is a seperate layer so I can turn them on of off to see the different looks depending on what is actually built.
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k287/Eigenwelt/Comcast%20Center/Comcastforthread.jpg

[tower]

^fuck.

[-GR2NY-]

You sicken me, you absolutely sicken me. This virtual pano thing is lookin alright!!

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k287/Eigenwelt/Comcast%20Center/Comcastforthread.jpg

[IngisKahn]

Didn't they approve BVT for 950'?

[tower]

Didn't they approve BVT for 950'?

the plot of land is approved for 950', but the tower itself is proposed at and likely to be built at 915'.

[giovanni sasso]

i wouldn't say "likely to be built at", i'd say "planned at but not necessarily going to built at" 915'. we shall see, we shall see ...

nice pano thingamajig, tommo.

bryson, your thing was ok too but it's kind of dickish to remove mandeville place from its own rendering. we get it, you don't think it will happen. i was less offended by this, though, than i was the use of comic sans. the horror.

some new shots from this morning, this cold, cold morning.

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc970.jpg

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc974.jpg

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc978.jpg

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc983.jpg

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc971.jpg

http://phillyskyline.com/123abc/whitmanskyline.jpg

[bryson662001]

[color=navy]

bryson, your thing was ok too but it's kind of dickish to remove mandeville place from its own rendering. i was less offended by this, though, than i was the use of comic sans. the horror.


Yea.....I know what you mean. I even thought maybe the picture was yours.....you do get around. Awkward, isn't it?:jester:

[skyscraper]

[QUOTE=giovanni sasso;2615621][color=navy]i wouldn't say "likely to be built at", i'd say "planned at but not necessarily going to built at" 915'. [QUOTE]

Do you think it will be built higher or lower than 915'?

[Joey D]

Wow... all these renderings in so little time fellas.

The above few shots are especially remarkable due to their vantage points.

However, I think all the pictures are horrible, personally. Especially the ones since page 1.

Sorry. It's just how I feel.

;)

[relnahe]

Do you think it will be built higher or lower than 915'?

It has been approved by all groups for 915'. I'm 99% sure it will not go lower or higher then that.

...and that my friend I'm 100% fine with.:tup:

[Eigenwelt]

Cripes! Belmont, frankford, camden and south philly? Sasso sures gets around. Literally. North, south, east and west.


Ingis - Yes, the tower is 915', but remember from that view BVT is a good mile futher away then the other towers of similar height. If anything, I may have made it look a little too tall.

Comcast should be right on, River City is based off the heights they used in their own rendering, and I fear I may have short changed Mandeville a foot or fifty. But I think it is close enough.

[H-Ville Man]

Gio-

As usual, you shots are awesome. However, I have a question. Where/how did you take the very last photo? It looks like a view from South Phila. looking down Delaware Ave. Looks like the view you would get from the Walt Whitman. How did you get that shot?

[MJPhilly]

http://www.skyscrapersunset.com/junk2/tupac.jpg

[Lecom]

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/7253/pict0001ca8.jpg

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/5372/pict0002sz0.jpg

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/469/pict0007comcastucfeb07om3.jpg

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/9905/pict0069comcastucfeb07eo9.jpg

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/5593/pict0070comcastucfeb07gg8.jpg

http://img453.imageshack.us/img453/7057/pict0071comcastucfeb07vas3.jpg

http://img453.imageshack.us/img453/5026/pict0074comcastucfeb07ht1.jpg

http://img453.imageshack.us/img453/907/pict0092comcastucfeb07vsi5.jpg

[LostInTheZone]

That pano's amazing eigenwelt. I'm really warming up to Bridgmans.

[Eigenwelt]

Gio-

As usual, you shots are awesome. However, I have a question. Where/how did you take the very last photo? It looks like a view from South Phila. looking down Delaware Ave. Looks like the view you would get from the Walt Whitman. How did you get that shot?

Since the file name is Whitmanskyline, I assume he rode shotgun across the bridge and put his telephoto to good use.


Litz - The uncropped version is much cooler. Southwest Philly on the leff to the USS United States on the right. Stupid 30mb file.

[giovanni sasso]

nice shots there, vit.

eigen, can't you shrink it a little and 'save for web'? it'd be pretty rad to see the whole thing.

i was previously unaware that there is a promenade and pier with a gazebo on it in gloucester city. it ain't pretty, and it ain't very well advertised, but it's there. it's at the foot of market street, between the ports, post-industrial piers and a gated in four story public housing building, but there it is with a view of the walt whitman bridge.

and yep, that last one was taken on the WWB. yeaaah, as a passenger, that's it! fret not, i was watching the road -- i had the camera set on multi-burst and just pointed it in the general direction of that view. that's the only one out of about ten that turned out ok.

here's one more from bryson's favorite perch. COMIC SANS SOLD SEPARATELY

http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/comcast/comcast_uc975.jpg

http://www.geckoblue.org/images/posts/2003/ban_comic_sans.gif

[StatenIslander237]

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/9905/pict0069comcastucfeb07eo9.jpg



Don't mind my asking, but what is the building U/C in the foreground of this picture? where is it located?

[MJPhilly]

That's the Pearl Condominiums. It's between Arch and Race, 8th and 9th. That's as tall as it's gonna get.

[Lecom]

^Yep. Mediocre infill project on a mediocre stretch of Arch Street.

[bryson662001]

here's one more from bryson's favorite perch. COMIC SANS SOLD SEPARATELY



I usually cut out the auto junkyards in the foreground.......but it's still a nice picture. Must have been early in the morning to get that light. Were you bitten by a COMIC SANS when you were a child? Sorry........I didn't know.

[LostInTheZone]

^Yep. Mediocre infill project on a mediocre stretch of Arch Street.

I like it based on the renderings. It's competent modern design, and the aprtments look like they'll have lots of light.

[Eigenwelt]

Pearl isn't great, but it does front the street and will provide density while not interferring with any skyline views. If something is going to be ugly, the least it can do is be someplace where it doesn't soil a view. *cough* edgewater *cough*

Were you bitten by a COMIC SANS when you were a child? Sorry........I didn't know.

A quick google search turned this up. Maybe it's a clue...

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

[StatenIslander237]

ignore

[StatenIslander237]

That's the Pearl Condominiums. It's between Arch and Race, 8th and 9th. That's as tall as it's gonna get.

lol thanks

[bryson662001]

Pearl isn't great, but it does front the street and will provide density while not interferring with any skyline views. If something is going to be ugly, the least it can do is be someplace where it doesn't soil a view. *cough* edgewater *cough*



A quick google search turned this up. Maybe it's a clue...

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


OMG.........I swear I had no idea.......I feel just awful. Maybe my collection of Edgewater photos will cheer me up and help me to forget.

[mja]

http://home.comcast.net/~mja01/db01.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~mja01/db02.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~mja01/db04.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~mja01/db10.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~mja01/db12.JPG