I was just looking at some posts from a couple years ago. It’s interesting to go back and see the state of construction at different times. Thanks for all the photos and posts people have shared (and will continue to).
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As JC’s photos show, they’re just chugging along. I’m not sure if all of the rest of the office floors will be built in 3 floors increments.
They started on the 3rd/last row of louvered cladding, though I’m surprised they haven’t turned the corner on the other end for even the first row. There’s plenty more panels waiting though.
Also clearly visible now is the 3 story escalator atrium on the south face.
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Looks like a large Martian.
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Today times in the off since I can not log in, this could only very briefly.
To the third picture there is this link as credit:
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As is visible in the latest feed capture that Mackensen shared, the transfer floor above the mech/outrigger has started to be clad, but overall not much progress has been done to wrap the rest of the cladding around the building, they just started to stack it all in the one corner.
Photo Dump (also posted some more “fanciful” photos to my IG)
The building is about 930’ now, major progress on has been made on 47th and 48th St with the sidewalk on the northern side of 383 Madison finally being opened/completed, portions of the north side of 48th St have also received proper sidewalk treatment and fences have been taken down. Also got some really nice close ups of the louvers, seem to be the “first” photos posted of them in detail.
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270 makes an appearance
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I was at the Norman Foster exhibition the other day and found these cool sketches of what might be 270 park at an earlier stage–seems he wanted to give it a spire at one point.
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Holy shit, that is awesome. Last image shows a skeletal rotating lantern, very interesting concept.
This is some early sketches of the Comcast Technology Center, a large park/garden enclosed in a glass bubble was drawn on top. Now it’s a sky bar and lounge
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That spire design would be so bizarre, lol.
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Yeah it looks tacked on. Would be cool to see that spire design on another building though.
Reminds me of Merdeka 118’s spire or the supertall concept for the Thompson Center
I usually like spires on skyscrapers, but that would’ve been totally incongruous. It doesn’t fit with the rest of the tower at all. For once I’m glad something was value engineered out of the final design.
Foster’s notes on that first drawing indicate Jamie Dimon had a hand in crafting this design (presumably Dimon is “the Chairman” Foster refers to):
“If as the Chairman suggested the rhomboids are on north & south facades [???] could be echoed in lantern”
Seems like Dimon was pushing for diamonds on all four facades, lol.
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I mean it wasn’t really value engineered out as it just appeared in early sketches but yeah glad we got the current design.
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