Sep 14
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@53w53
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@fcjhnewyork01
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Nice!!!
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this one is really starting to make some noticeable progress.
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@fcjhewyork01
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Great photo!
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Glad to know where it is in this moment!
This diagram looks monumental
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@apartmentsofny
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Ohio!
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Fantastic progress!
Nice updates, VG! ^^
Landmark!!!
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@53w53
“first rose above ground level in March, and now stands at eight stories tall”
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I always thought that the cladding would be metal, but I’m starting to wonder if it will be concrete.
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Same here RW, as I had always thought it were to be done in steel.
Anyways, the diagrid will in fact be done in concrete.
Concrete Diagrid Structure
The other unusual feature of 53W53’s diagrid structure is what it is made of. Nouvel’s original design was intended to be built in steel. But the floor-to-floor heights of a steel structure would have limited the number of stories too much, so WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff investigated how to create the same aesthetic in concrete instead – “the first time that a diagrid structure of this magnitude and complexity has been done in concrete,” notes Oliveira.
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