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Marcos · #**5241** Posted **Jan 16, 2017, 5:35 PM**

walking down the street about an hour or so ago & saw this yellow beam being hoisted up, hard to see in the photo but it looked oddly out of place in color (it's about half way up the hotel portion)

gw04 · #**5242** Posted **Jan 16, 2017, 7:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by Marcos

walking down the street about an hour or so ago & saw this yellow beam being hoisted up, hard to see in the photo but it looked oddly out of place in color (it's about half way up the hotel portion)

Perhaps it was one of the special load lifting beams used to get large supplies onto various floors - through the window areas between floors; as opposed to the type of loading beam that is used to bring down a load onto an floor or section that's open from the top.

Marcos · #**5243** Posted **Jan 16, 2017, 7:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by gw04

Perhaps it was one of the special load lifting beams used to get large supplies onto various floors - through the window areas between floors; as opposed to the type of loading beam that is used to bring down a load onto an floor or section that's open from the top.

makes as much sense as anything else, I just hadn't noticed what was attached to those cranes before today; too busy looking at the building itself. That caught my eye because it stood out twisting in the breeze up there.

As an aside, I agree with tower's comment above, this is going to be one imposing structure. I've been on the fence about its lower roof height all along but the more I look at it from all sides, particularly north/south, I think it will dominate the skyline

Elevator1 · #**5244** Posted **Jan 16, 2017, 8:03 PM**

Looks on the webcam like the north crane is supporting the boom of the south crane. Perhaps a larger one is being installed to reach further?

summersm343 · #**5245** Posted **Jan 16, 2017, 8:45 PM**

Either the west crane is coming down, or their changing booms to take down the east crane.

summersm343 · #**5246** Posted **Jan 16, 2017, 10:41 PM**

Update from Building Philly

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summersm343 · #**5247** Posted **Jan 16, 2017, 10:49 PM**

Update from Building Philly

https://www.facebook.com/BuildingPhilly

summersm343 · #**5248** Posted **Jan 16, 2017, 10:50 PM**

Update from Building Philly

https://www.facebook.com/BuildingPhilly

ekt8750 · #**5249** Posted **Jan 16, 2017, 11:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by Elevator1

Looks on the webcam like the north crane is supporting the boom of the south crane. Perhaps a larger one is being installed to reach further?

The boom from the south crane has been taken down.

summersm343 · #**5250** Posted **Jan 16, 2017, 11:54 PM**

From today when they were taking the boom down:

Marcos · #**5251** Posted **Jan 17, 2017, 12:15 AM**

the framing and roof line drop off on the west end, is that the footprint of the cooling tower? If so it looks larger than the renderings

summersm343 · #**5252** Posted **Jan 17, 2017, 3:29 AM**

Center City, Philadelphia by rediscover film, on Flickr

summersm343 · #**5253** Posted **Jan 17, 2017, 3:30 AM**

Good Morning, Philadelphia by Michael Hoffman, on Flickr

Raymond LuxuryYacht · #**5254** Posted **Jan 18, 2017, 5:59 PM**

It appears according to the webcam that they have brought up a new boom for the SW crane. I wonder if the new boom will be used for the cooling tower and lantern. Based on the current status of the top floor, it seems like they have prefabricated parts of the cooling tower offsite, so it may be lifted in place, though I'm no engineer or architect.