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Old Posted Apr 10, 2017, 12:01 PM
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Old Posted Apr 10, 2017, 12:02 PM
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Thats the old GSK HQ building being reclad in glass. It's not a new building.
cool, is there a thread somewhere on here?
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Old Posted Apr 10, 2017, 12:17 PM
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cool, is there a thread somewhere on here?
Not that I've seen.
http://onefranklintower.com/
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cool, is there a thread somewhere on here?
Nah coz it's just a re-cladding. Summers or someone else will usually post periodic updates on one of the general threads.
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Methinks they're getting the glass up against the west end of the north and south facades up so that they can put the spire in ASAP
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A man can dream can't he?
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Methinks they're getting the glass up against the west end of the north and south facades up so that they can put the spire in ASAP
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A man can dream can't he?
That glass covers the shafts of the exterior glass elevators to the hotel, so it also may have something to do with that:



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Old Posted Apr 10, 2017, 4:50 PM
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^ Even the rendering leans
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That glass covers the shafts of the exterior glass elevators to the hotel, so it also may have something to do with that
You can see that even better from this angle, with the glass covering the elevator shafts already reaching the lower floors of the hotel, and at least part of the steel framing of the shafts reaching the top:

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Methinks they're getting the glass up against the west end of the north and south facades up so that they can put the spire in ASAP
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"ASAP" and this building haven't been used together before!
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Old Posted Apr 10, 2017, 10:31 PM
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Gotta hand it to Foster. This looks better than I ever imagined. And the more times I see the cut-outs (architectural term??) on the Comcast tower the more annoyed I get.
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Gotta hand it to Foster. This looks better than I ever imagined. And the more times I see the cut-outs (architectural term??) on the Comcast tower the more annoyed I get.



I look that avatar picture about ten years ago .

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Old Posted Apr 11, 2017, 4:45 AM
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I found the original rendering of Comcast Technology Center:

https://www.google.com/search?q=san+...j8_Z5CO1J0cSM:
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Old Posted Apr 11, 2017, 12:51 PM
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I found the original rendering of Comcast Technology Center:

https://www.google.com/search?q=san+...j8_Z5CO1J0cSM:




Well if your talking about that United Nations Capital rendering , the first thing I thought of is the old Sears/Willis tower in
Chicago , which is a first cousin rendering of the CITC . So I guess what goes around , comes around .
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The inspiration for the Comcast 1 Tower?

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That skin tho!
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A school is digging in where some thought a new Comcast tower might rise

http://www.philly.com/philly/busines...ast-tower.html
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Russell Byers Charter School intends to borrow millions for renovations to its building near 19th and Arch Streets, suggesting that a third Comcast tower, which many have speculated might rise on the block, won't be materializing any time soon.

Plans call for spending $4.75 million to convert the basement level into classrooms and to build a new entry structure on its Cherry Street side, among other improvements meant to accommodate the middle-school grades Russell Byers will begin hosting next year, head of school Jesse Bean said in an interview.

Much of the land on the block — bounded by 19th and 20th Streets, between Arch and Cherry — has been acquired by Liberty Property Trust in collaboration with Comcast Corp. The Malvern-based developer previously built Comcast's nearby headquarters tower at 1701 John F. Kennedy Blvd., across the street from where it is completing work on the 60-story Comcast Technology Center.

Though Liberty and Comcast have never commented on their plans for the assembled properties, they have seemed a likely site for additional space to be built for the expanding broadcast and technology giant.

But the 18,600-square-foot Byers School parcel — one of two mid-block properties not owned by Liberty — presumably isn't part of those plans, at least not yet.

Negotiations between Liberty and the charter school over the property’s sale "have stalled indefinitely," the school said in a December presentation posted on its website.
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