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Originally Posted by SFSkyline
Going back to the first post on this thread...the close up of the crown shows four levels of the walkways botoxic talks about. That means the crown will double from its current height.
Also, while certainly not as glamorous as the crown, does anyone have good pics into the parking pit?
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To my eyes that isn't quite correct. I count 9 "levels" (roughly equivalent to floors in height) above the highest occupied floor. It appears that the lowest 3 of these are the mechanical penthouse, surrounding the top portion of the concrete core and eventually covered with a glass "skin". Above that we will have 6 "levels" of the crown, covered with the metal screen and, presumably, containing whatever lighting is planned. It appears there is a walkway at the top (interior) of the mechanical penthouse skin frame/bracing and at the top of each of 3 2-level sections of the frame/bracing for the crown's metal skin.
So that means, yes, probably 4 levels of walkways (assuming there is one at the very top) but also that we have 2 2-level sections of metal crown frame/bracing to go which will be approximately 1 level short of doubling the height of the structure above the top occupied floor from what we have now.
The issue here is that the lowest 3 floor-equivalent levels of the structure above the highest occupied foor, which house the mechanical equipment and top of the core and will be glass-covered, are not quite identical, either in the structure of the framing panels (you can see there is a difference between the lower x-braced panels of framing and the upper of the two framing groups, a total of 5 levels out of 9, that are there now) or in their height, with the metal crown frame/bracing being installed above them.
Hard to say all this--hope I've been clear.