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May 1, 2013
 
great pic, lxmoss! That slanted roof line makes an already outrageously interesting building, even better...:cool:
 
When oh when will the glass continue going up on the north side? It hasn't been added to for like 1-2 weeks.
 
Speaking of cladding... It will be interesting to see how they cover the 2 floor sections of the penthouse. Will they run a metal support structure to hold two rows of window-wall, or will it be full-length sections with immense glass? (Which would have to have been custom made, at an extreme surcharge to the penthouse buyer.)
 
khristopher said:
When oh when will the glass continue going up on the north side? It hasn't been added to for like 1-2 weeks.
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I believe they had problems when they tested the curved glass - it didn't meet performance standards
 
khristopher said:
When oh when will the glass continue going up on the north side? It hasn't been added to for like 1-2 weeks.
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I think its been more like a month - they must be running into some slowdown. Its also slow on the south side - I just notice today they put a cladding row on 55 and starting their way down.

It looks like lately they are putting most effort on the bottom third of the ltower? Does anyone know?
 
ChesterCopperpot said:
I believe they had problems when they tested the curved glass - it didn't meet performance standards
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The glass is not curved; the curtain wall on the "curve" is as flat as the floors below. (Look carefully, they have already installed two floors on the "curve" which sit at a slightly different angle from the floors below.) If they had problems, it was due to the wedge-shaped spacing caused by the adjoining curtain wall changing angles on each floor. I imagine that would cause a weather sealing problem.
 
khristopher said:
When oh when will the glass continue going up on the north side? It hasn't been added to for like 1-2 weeks.
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Just walking by ltower - looks like they are getting a big shipment of cladding this morning. Hopefully they got any problems sorted out and we see more installations on both the north and south sides.
 
Traynor said:
Speaking of cladding... It will be interesting to see how they cover the 2 floor sections of the penthouse. Will they run a metal support structure to hold two rows of window-wall, or will it be full-length sections with immense glass? (Which would have to have been custom made, at an extreme surcharge to the penthouse buyer.)
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I also noticed some cladding that had to be 4 feet wide and almost 20 feet long ... I'm thinking it will be custom made for the penthouse - hard to confirm - but that would be my guess from my vantage point
 
RiverCity, that was an excellent B & W shot from earlier in the thread. Great composition and treatment of focus.
 
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