PHILADELPHIA | FMC Tower @ Cira Centre South | 736 FT | 49 FLOORS - Page 50

summersm343 · #**981** Posted **Jan 28, 2014, 1:13 AM**

I took a pic today. 27 floors of concrete complete. Working on the 28th now. That leaves 6 more floors plus the rooftop pool/crown. In total... will be about 9 more floors in height.

summersm343 · #**982** Posted **Jan 28, 2014, 2:00 AM**

New rendering for Evo

http://offcampushousing.drexel.edu/property/view/listingid/157806

Flyers2001 · #**983** Posted **Jan 28, 2014, 2:30 AM**

Slant looks more dramatic. Are they still on target for 430 ft?

summersm343 · #**984** Posted **Jan 28, 2014, 2:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by Flyers2001

Slant looks more dramatic. Are they still on target for 430 ft?

I was given two numbers. One was 407 feet and one was 430 feet.

Let's do some math.

With 27 floors complete in concrete from floor to ceiling, the building is the SAME EXACT height as 2400 Chestnut across the river, which is 337 feet high:
http://www.emporis.com/building/2400chestnutapartments-philadelphia-pa-usa

The Evo at it's tallest height will be 33 floors, but the slope is about 3 floors in height... so that really means there are 9 more floors in height to go. Make sense?

27 floors complete, divided by 3 is 9...
337 divided by 3 is 112.
337+112= 449 feet.

So I would say the 430 foot height is probably accurate. In the renderings of FMC with Evo included, the Evo looks to be only slightly shorter than Cira I.

Sooo, yep, 430 feet.

josef · #**985** Posted **Jan 28, 2014, 7:50 PM**

I love the picture with the Schuykill all iced over!

Flyers2001 · #**986** Posted **Jan 28, 2014, 10:25 PM**

From train ride today:

Austinlee · #**987** Posted **Jan 29, 2014, 1:09 AM**

FYI, Watusi: The first post of the thread has bad image links. Maybe time to add the latest renders?

MikeNigh · #**988** Posted **Jan 29, 2014, 3:37 AM**

techchallenger · #**989** Posted **Jan 29, 2014, 4:00 PM**

I think some glass finally showed up. I'd heard there was an issue manufacturing it in a timely manner which is why the building has been 'wrapped' on certain floors.

Philly-Drew · #**990** Posted **Jan 29, 2014, 5:08 PM**

Great pic Mike. I really like that perspective!

Pennsgrant · #**991** Posted **Jan 30, 2014, 12:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by techchallenger

I think some glass finally showed up. I'd heard there was an issue manufacturing it in a timely manner which is why the building has been 'wrapped' on certain floors.

The glass is starting on the ground floor and indeed it looks like the mockup sitting on the Walnut lot.

shadowbat2 · #**992** Posted **Jan 30, 2014, 12:47 AM**

Muji · #**993** Posted **Jan 30, 2014, 1:27 AM**

There are so many great pictures on this page. I especially like the last one from shadowbat2 where Evo and Chestnut Square seem to blend right in with the towers in Center City.

Koernerstr32 · #**994** Posted **Jan 30, 2014, 4:56 AM**

^blend right in? How about having development stand out instead of blending? Oh wait, comcast II will solve that. Come on, strive for more....that Quaker, small town, "big city want to be" mentality"

duffey · #**995** Posted **Jan 30, 2014, 5:25 AM**

Relax over there. I'm sure by saying "blend right in" he refers to geographical perspective, meaning they appear to stand among the center city cluster of skyscrapers, and not to the centuries old cultural modesty reflected in the architecture.

hammersklavier · #**996** Posted **Jan 30, 2014, 12:57 PM**

Yeah...based on the mockup, it'll be a steely behemoth, but it'll also knit the Center City and West Philly skylines together.

Philly Fan · #**997** Posted **Jan 30, 2014, 1:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by duffey

Relax over there. I'm sure by saying "blend right in" he refers to geographical perspective, meaning they appear to stand among the center city cluster of skyscrapers, and not to the centuries old cultural modesty reflected in the architecture.

Yeah, like City Hall--now there's a fine example of centuries old cultural modesty reflected in architecture.

apetrella802 · #**998** Posted **Jan 30, 2014, 2:09 PM**

surely you are not calling city hall modest! It's an exuberant, lavish, over the top example of French Second Empire architecture. In another way if reflects Philadelphia's massive accumulation of wealth and capital at the high noon of the industrial revolution, as Oscer Wild said, nothing succeeds like excess!

apetrella802

MetaldDeth81 · #**999** Posted **Jan 30, 2014, 2:27 PM**

I'm pretty sure the smiley indicated a sarcasm alert

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Originally Posted by apetrella802

surely you are not calling city hall modest! It's an exuberant, lavish, over the top example of French Second Empire architecture. In another way if reflects Philadelphia's massive accumulation of wealth and capital at the high noon of the industrial revolution, as Oscer Wild said, nothing succeeds like excess!

apetrella802

Philly Fan · #**1000** Posted **Jan 30, 2014, 3:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by apetrella802

surely you are not calling city hall modest! It's an exuberant, lavish, over the top example of French Second Empire architecture. In another way if reflects Philadelphia's massive accumulation of wealth and capital at the high noon of the industrial revolution, as Oscer Wild said, nothing succeeds like excess!

apetrella802

Not to mention that it was the tallest building in the US from 1901 to 1908, is currently the tallest masonry structure in the world, and is the largest municipal building in the US and one of the largest in the world.

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Originally Posted by MetaldDeth81

I'm pretty sure the smiley indicated a sarcasm alert

Noooooooooo! Really?