Philadelphia | Pennsylvania Convention Center Expansion

[Swinefeld]

Updates, updates, updates.

[theWatusi]

more updates updates updates including views from the City Hall Tower

[hammersklavier]

Why is construction east of 13th proceeding faster than that west of it?

[Orion1]

I'm only guessing, but maybe the priority is being placed on connecting the old with the new.

[theWatusi]

I think it's just because they started over there and are working their way west.

[Muji]

Originally Posted by theWatusi

Anyone know what the small extension on the north side of the expansion is supposed to be?

[hammersklavier]

Looks like either a small parking garage or a storage warehouse to me.

[philatonian]

I think it's some sort of loading ramp. From the street level, the ceilings seem too high to be a parking garage but the floors are ramped like a garage.

I hope the skin isn't the final material used for that part. The back side of this building is already ugly as sin without looking like a JCPenny distribution center.

[hammersklavier]

Taken yesterday:

[Johnland]

Originally Posted by theWatusi

more updates updates updates including views from the City Hall Tower

I just saw how Chicago's City Hall roof was converted to green roof. They installed a layer of soil and plants on the existing roof. The plants and soil absorb rain water and reduce runoff, provide insulation, reduce energy usage and actually help to reduce the heat-island over the city.

It's a shame this convention center is, well, so conventional.

[looper121]

Originally Posted by Johnland

I just saw how Chicago's City Hall roof was converted to green roof. They installed a layer of soil and plants on the existing roof. The plants and soil absorb rain water and reduce runoff, provide insulation, reduce energy usage and actually help to reduce the heat-island over the city.

It's a shame this convention center is, well, so conventional.

Well, at least it's reflective.

[winxs]

Pa. Convention Center expansion ahead of schedule

Philadelphia Business Journal - by Peter Van Allen, Staff Writer
Thursday, November 5, 2009,

http://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/...l?surround=lfn

"Expansion of the Pennsylvania Convention Center is ahead of schedule on some aspects of construction, the lead building official said Thursday.

Mechanical operations, including a vast power plant, were delivered ahead of schedule and most of the major concrete work has been poured, Joseph Resta, who heads up construction on the $786 million expansion, said on a hard-hat tour with media..."

[Parkway]

More updates...

[hammersklavier]

Even if they do add a green roof later, that's no guarantee people will be allowed to use it. But still, greening the roof of the Convention Center would yield a humongous swath of green in Center City.

[buildup]

In the future I would like to see them sell some of the air rights over this big roof and build skyscrapers!

[Johnland]

Originally Posted by buildup

In the future I would like to see them sell some of the air rights over this big roof and build skyscrapers!

Yes, that'd have been smart. Alot of well placed land will soon be tucked away under the biggest roof on the East Coast. A big, white, glaring, useless roof.