PHILADELPHIA | The Summit | 279 FT | 25 FLOORS - Page 14

summersm343 · #**261** Posted **Nov 14, 2014, 1:43 AM**

MusicMan84 · #**262** Posted **Nov 20, 2014, 6:02 PM**

Today from Drexel park. They are starting to frame up the parapet area...

VikingDutchman · #**263** Posted **Nov 20, 2014, 6:24 PM**

Very impressed with how this is turning out.

I hope it proves indicative of what we can expect of Drexel's future plans for development in the area.

Flyers2001 · #**264** Posted **Nov 22, 2014, 1:04 PM**

domodeez · #**265** Posted **Dec 10, 2014, 1:47 AM**

From Saturday afternoon 12/6:

ConstructStudent · #**266** Posted **Dec 10, 2014, 7:38 PM**

The tower crane was supposed to start being removed today but because of the winds its been pushed off. You should start seeing it being dismantled over the course of the next few days.

summersm343 · #**267** Posted **Dec 11, 2014, 12:48 AM**

Update from Hidden City

http://hiddencityphila.org/2014/12/u...rtment-towers/

McBane · #**268** Posted **Dec 11, 2014, 3:15 PM**

I like the tower a lot. The paneling on the base however looks cheap, at least in the last few pictures.

domodeez · #**269** Posted **Dec 12, 2014, 12:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by McBane

I like the tower a lot. The paneling on the base however looks cheap, at least in the last few pictures.

It looks cheap in person too.

jsbrook · #**270** Posted **Dec 12, 2014, 11:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by summersm343

Update from Hidden City

http://hiddencityphila.org/2014/12/u...rtment-towers/

Agreed...A shame.

1487 · #**271** Posted **Dec 12, 2014, 3:57 PM**

looks like crane is starting to come down at this project. It was lower than the top of the building when I saw it this morning.

summersm343 · #**272** Posted **Dec 16, 2014, 2:07 AM**

McBane · #**273** Posted **Dec 16, 2014, 2:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by domodeez

It looks cheap in person too.

It's really irritating. If you're not going to build with high quality materials (like say the Mormons are using on their church), then why not just go with all glass? It's the same thing with that new tower on 21st and Chestnut. It ends up marring the entire building. It boggles my mind why developers do that.

shakman · #**274** Posted **Dec 16, 2014, 4:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by McBane

It's really irritating. If you're not going to build with high quality materials (like say the Mormons are using on their church), then why not just go with all glass? It's the same thing with that new tower on 21st and Chestnut. It ends up marring the entire building. It boggles my mind why developers do that.

Reduce coast and maximize profits.

MusicMan84 · #**275** Posted **Dec 17, 2014, 7:24 PM**

Untitled by Music_Man84, on Flickr

ConstructStudent · #**276** Posted **Dec 17, 2014, 8:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by McBane

It's really irritating. If you're not going to build with high quality materials (like say the Mormons are using on their church), then why not just go with all glass? It's the same thing with that new tower on 21st and Chestnut. It ends up marring the entire building. It boggles my mind why developers do that.

Window Wall Systems (Glass) start at $75 / SF precast panels run around $45 / SF. If you are dealing with an exterior skin of 50,000 SF which is about the SF of the Precast Panels your saving $1,750,000 by using a precast panel system not to mention the large amount of savings in mechanical systems. If you have an all glass building it is extremely costly for mechanical systems because they would have to run constantly and the CFM's would be probably double.

McBane · #**277** Posted **Dec 17, 2014, 8:43 PM**

I really have no idea what I'm talking about, but isn't there another way to incorporate the cheap stuff without concentrating all of it at the base where it's most visible to the passerby? For example, running a narrow strip of it up the tower or incorporating it into the crown?

DIESELPOLO · #**278** Posted **Dec 17, 2014, 8:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by jsbrook

Agreed...A shame.

Or just use the same pale color cladding. The randomly-placed brick colored panels provide nothing substantial.

jsbrook · #**279** Posted **Dec 18, 2014, 12:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by DIESELPOLO

Or just use the same pale color cladding. The randomly-placed brick colored panels provide nothing substantial.

Yeah. Seems they could have still economized on the base with a more aesthetic result. Still, great to see a tower go up in this area, and the tower piece looks nice. Hopefully, the base will get face-lifted eventually like we are seeing with several buildings on Market Street right now.

volguus zildrohar · #**280** Posted **Dec 26, 2014, 5:55 PM**

December 26