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Originally Posted by summersm343 (Post 6759869)

Guys. Shut up.

Everyone is allowed to have an opinion. And if someone thinks the design pays homage to the NBC Chicago Tower, Industrial Factories and smokestacks or a fucking middle finger, who are we to tell them their wrong?

It's really not that big of a deal. Stupidest argument ever.

To me this is not an argument. It's actually an interesting topic. Discussions of most topics, architecture included, are filled with unquestioned assumptions about what means something or has relevance. But when you sit down and think it through, most of these preconceptions are both baseless and pointless. It's an interesting fact of life and it's worthwhile to point it out when you see it, seems to me.

But there's no argument here for me. If someone wants to see Rockefeller Center in the CITC, no problem. That doesn't mean it was intended, or if intended, an idea with value. As you say, people can make their observations, and there is no harm in making a counter observation. It's easy enough to skip over the stuff that doesn't interest you. It's a discussion board, that's what they're for.

Beats the endlessly repeated "well, well, well, she's moving along nicely" restatements of the obvious contained in every third or fourth post.

Another peeve of mine along the lines above: comments about whether a building "balances out the skyline" at a particular location . . . as if buildings get built because of their effect on some made-up notion of an artistic composition in a skyline.

How many times have we read something like "I'd have liked this building better if they had build it on the lot two blocks further east, where it will better balance out the skyline . . . "

Comments like that are about as meaningless a waste of space as there is; challenges to their pointlessness bring up far more interesting topics by comparison.

I mean, bring it on, bring on the comments like that, but expect some feedback. It's discussion.

You think this thread is full of supidity? Check out the Chicago Spire thread. 6 years worth of, pointless, baseless speculation about a thoroughly idiotic completely dead project. Our recent silly discussion here is like a Nobel roundtable debate by comparison.

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Originally Posted by summersm343 (Post 6759869)

Stupidest argument ever.

Been on the W Hotel thread lately? :rolleyes:

Guys,

Shouldn't we be looking at the hole in the ground getting wet in anticipation and/or pictures of that two-story mockup Liberty built on the parking lot across the street instead?

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Originally Posted by hammersklavier (Post 6760637)

Guys,

Shouldn't we be looking at the hole in the ground getting wet in anticipation and/or pictures of that two-story mockup Liberty built on the parking lot across the street instead?

I walked by the mockup on Saturday and it was partially done but it was dark so I couldn't get a good picture. Can anyone on that side of town take a quick pic?

I was going to say the rebar cages were on site, but I see I am too late. It seems they have removed much of the original ramp and are making a different ramp alignment.

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Originally Posted by TallCoolOne (Post 6760793)

Fine, fine, fine ... here you go - from just now ................

1) Mock up Thingy:

I'm liking what I see on the mock-up!

Rebar! That was fast! And I am in love with the cladding seen on the mock!

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Originally Posted by TallCoolOne (Post 6760793)

I'm digging the stainless steel and glass look. This bldg is going to standout like a beacon both during day and night!

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Originally Posted by summersm343 (Post 6761699)

Rebar! :grouphug:

In the hole! (Well, almost. :rolleyes:)

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Originally Posted by SJPhillyBoy (Post 6755071)

For those of you just joining us, large renderings can be found here:

http://corporate.comcast.com/news-in...-press-release

Source:
http://corporate.comcast.com/images/...-1-15-2014.pdf

The Comcast Innovation and Technology Center
The Comcast Innovation and Technology Center will be a $1.2 billion world-class, state-of-the-art facility along the 1800 block of Arch Street. It will complement Comcast Corporation’s global headquarters, the Comcast Center, and expand the Comcast vertical campus in Center City.

Location
•1800 Arch Street Developer
•Liberty Property Trust Owner
•A joint venture between Comcast Corporation and Liberty Property Trust

Design Architect
•Lord Norman Foster, Foster + Partners Architect of Record
•Kendall/Heaton Associates, Inc.

General Contractor
•L.F. Driscoll Co.

Development
•1,121 feet tall
•59-story tower
•Approximately 1.517 million rentable square feet, including 1.285 million rentable square feet of office space, 230,112 square feet of hotel space, and 2,682 rentable square feet of retail space
•Featuring 200+ room luxury Four Seasons hotel with world-class spa, fitness, event and meeting facilities
•Exciting new restaurant located on the top floor of the building, offering spectacular 360 degree of the city
•Media center in the heart of the City, featuring the studio and office operations of NBC 10/WCAU and Telemundo 62/WWSI
•State-of-the-art incubator space for local technology start ups
•Creation of an extended commuter concourse connected underground to Comcast Center and Suburban Station
•Constructed of stainless steel and glass façade
•Designed to attain LEED® Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council
•Comparable rental rates to existing Trophy Class buildings in Philadelphia, including the Comcast Center

Timeline
•Ground breaking anticipated Summer 2014
•Project completion anticipated Q4 2017

Total Project Cost
•$1.2 billion in total
•$40 million in Commonwealth and City support to defray the cost of public infrastructure improvements. No government dollars will be used to support the office and hotel components of this project.

Added to front page :tup:

That picture with the workers in a circle looks like a seance. :fruit::diablo:

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Originally Posted by Plokoon11 (Post 6762032)

That picture with the workers in a circle looks like a seance. :fruit::diablo:

Or someone dropped their keys in it!

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Originally Posted by Boku (Post 6762085)

Or someone dropped their keys in it!

"No you go down there!"

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Originally Posted by josef (Post 6762097)

"No you go down there!"

I was thinking the exact same thing! I almost posted that photo separately yesterday with this dialogue: "I went down last time--it's YOUR turn." "No, I went down the time before that--it's JOE'S turn!" And so on and so forth. :P

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2948/...bc9c27d7_z.jpg

That cladding is sexy as hell, I love the brushed metal look. It looks like a Rolls-Royce had a baby with a tuxedo.

I really believe this building has now jumped up in the sexy scale after seeing the cladding sample.

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Originally Posted by TallCoolOne (Post 6760793)

Fine, fine, fine ... here you go - from just now ................

2) Comcast update:
[IMG]https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2949/...a958ed6a_z.jpg Untitled by TallCoolOne2014, on Flickr[/IMG]

Did anyone else look at this one and think the Drill was going in one hole, and coming up the other hole like the edge of a Pac-Man screen! :ahhh::wizard:

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Originally Posted by Mappy (Post 6762476)

Did anyone else look at this one and think the Drill was going in one hole, and coming up the other hole like the edge of a Pac-Man screen! :ahhh::wizard:

Great observation! :tup:

Caption: "Oops! Guess that bedrock's a little harder than we thought." :uhh:

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