Lol I like this building too!
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I second that too lol
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Preparation for cladding has begun with water proofing going up and some facade clips installed. I took lots more pics on my actual camera so ill upload those tonight but heres these from my phone
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LOVE Actionkid!
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Work has slowed significantly in the last month as work on the bulkhead floors before the crown is being done. The crown will probably be made of steel, so one indication of the crown beginning would be when the forms are removed.
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Still extremely difficult to tell what’s going on since there are no accurate renders or diagrams to go off of, but relative to Madison House’s height of 805’, there’s maybe one more floor and then the last of the bulkhead floors? And then the crown of course.
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I’m excited to see some curtain wall go up. Nice pics.
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The suspense is killing me 
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The scale is ridiculous.
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Crown level has finally been reached, the forms were removed from the core.
I did say the first indication of the crown starting would be the form removal from the main footprint, but the side walls of the crown could still always be made of concrete seeing as they have not been removed and the side forms have been.
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I sure hope New York never has a sizeable earthquake.
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In this rendering the crown walls & top are very thin; that crown as depicted will look very different if made of reinforced concrete slabs. I am hoping to see this crown made of some type of metal in order to keep that light/thin appearance.
This is looking good so far: a very “avant-garde” work of architecture.
This one will be a NYC icon. 
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https://www.architectmagazine.com/project-gallery/262-fifth-avenue_o#
Excerpt - Designed by Meganom, the Moscow-based avant-garde architecture firm led by Yury Grigoyan and co-founder Ilya Kuleshov, with Elena Uglovskaya and Artem Staborovsky, 262 Fifth Avenue will be the firm’s first project in the U.S. Meganom is virtually unknown in the West, yet have tackled some of the biggest and most complex projects in Russia.
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The crown is not as thin as that render depicts, that would be quite impossible to support it effectively for lateral loads.
When I mentioned it could be possibly built of concrete, I didnt mean solid shear walls, I was more meaning concrete framework (columns and beams) which is an extremely common method used to build crowns and parapets, as was used at Madison House as visible in this old photo by @baronson
The crown doesnt come to a knife edge at its ends, theres a small frame around the opening, and neither are the inside faces flat, they are curved as is the underside of the top portion, so the midpoint of either side of the crown is more bulky than the end points. The last diagram shows more of what the true “thickness” would be. Its quite possible to be built of steel or concrete but steel makes more sense in this instance because of the top part.
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