PITTSBURGH | Tower at PNC Plaza | 545 FT / 166 M | 32 FLOORS - Page 11

The Pimp · #**201** Posted: **Aug 1, 2012, 4:54 PM**

Great building! Great city!

Austinlee · #**202** Posted: **Aug 12, 2012, 9:20 PM**

Updated shot from the Tribune Review that was posted in the Pgh Rundown thread.

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Originally Posted by daviderik

Birds eye, you can see how important this corner is adjacent to the new pnc tower. Photo Credit: Tribune-Review

Gilamonster · #**203** Posted: **Aug 15, 2012, 2:49 AM**

The temporary road down into the pit is finished and excavation is continuing.

DBR96A · #**204** Posted: **Aug 15, 2012, 2:59 AM**

So where's the skyscraper? It just looks like a big-ol' hole in the ground!

Austinlee · #**205** Posted: **Aug 15, 2012, 3:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by DBR96A

So where's the skyscraper? It just looks like a big-ol' hole in the ground!

I know, right! I wish they would build the tower first then dig the foundation after.

Wheelingman04 · #**206** Posted: **Aug 16, 2012, 3:31 PM**

Thanks for posting those picture updates guys

Austinlee · #**207** Posted: **Aug 16, 2012, 4:20 PM**

^You're '30 minutes to beautiful downtown Pittsburgh'. You need to start getting some pics wheelingman.

Gilamonster · #**208** Posted: **Sep 5, 2012, 3:26 AM**

Caissons are well underway at the site, which means by the standards of this web site, the building is under construction. I'll get some pics Saturday at the latest so a moderator can have visual proof and move the thread. Maybe someone else can take pics sooner than me and we can get this moved earlier

volguus zildrohar · #**209** Posted: **Sep 5, 2012, 3:53 AM**

Pretty nice looking. I like the newer design.

TallBob · #**210** Posted: **Sep 5, 2012, 4:40 AM**

This is a nice tower Pittsburg! That roof should put it at 550+!

designer3d712 · #**211** Posted: **Sep 17, 2012, 2:43 PM**

This article is from August 23 and it shows some new renderings. I'm pretty sure that I haven't seen this posted anywhere.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0...pnc-tower.html

Source: PNC Bank/Gensler via Bloomberg

Wiz Khalifa · #**212** Posted: **Sep 17, 2012, 3:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by Gilamonster

Caissons are well underway at the site, which means by the standards of this web site, the building is under construction. I'll get some pics Saturday at the latest so a moderator can have visual proof and move the thread. Maybe someone else can take pics sooner than me and we can get this moved earlier

Does anyone have any updates yet? Is the tower officially under contruction?

markson33 · #**213** Posted: **Sep 17, 2012, 9:15 PM**

Yes it's under construction. Probably still won't look like anything for a few months though.

Gilamonster · #**214** Posted: **Sep 17, 2012, 10:24 PM**

Jonboy1983 · #**215** Posted: **Sep 17, 2012, 10:39 PM**

I wonder how high up this sky garden atrium is going to be. From the looks of the renderings, I'm guessing only about 3 or 4 stories or so...

shakman · #**216** Posted: **Sep 18, 2012, 2:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by Gilamonster

They are drilling and installing caissons. I will make a request to the mods to have this moved to the under construction sub-forum.

Austinlee · #**217** Posted: **Sep 18, 2012, 4:39 PM**

From the website:

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Caissons
Caisson work began August 20 and will continue for about two and a half to three months. Caissons are shafts ranging from three to six feet in diameter that are drilled through the earth into bedrock and filled with steel-reinforced concrete to support building columns.

bmust71 · #**218** Posted: **Sep 30, 2012, 11:11 PM**

Any update on Oxford's proposed building?

Wheelingman04 · #**219** Posted: **Oct 1, 2012, 2:15 AM**

Im going to go downtown more often to watch this baby rise

Gilamonster · #**220** Posted: **Oct 1, 2012, 3:29 AM**

It's not ready to start rising quite yet. Foundation work is still going on but it is going on at a furious pace. Work is generally going on from 7 AM until 11 PM and some Saturday hours as well.