The Butterfly | 178.6m | 57Fl | Completed - Page 73

Vin · #**1441** Posted **Aug 29, 2023, 6:48 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zepfancouver

Here is a gif showing that struggle of a custom install.

Panel #1, one hour and 35 minutes. They will learn and adapt has the work progresses.

https://makeagif.com/i/g5wqNP

Boy, I suppose the cost of each unit is justified seeing how much work actually goes into creating this masterpiece.

officedweller · #**1442** Posted **Aug 29, 2023, 10:43 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vin

Boy, I suppose the cost of each unit is justified seeing how much work actually goes into creating this masterpiece.

Whenever I see things that are customized, I see potential future problems.

WarrenC12 · #**1443** Posted **Aug 30, 2023, 3:05 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by officedweller

Whenever I see things that are customized, I see potential future problems.

Maintenance nightmare to be sure.

Vin · #**1444** Posted **Aug 30, 2023, 6:31 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by officedweller

Whenever I see things that are customized, I see potential future problems.

Quote:

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Maintenance nightmare to be sure.

That is true, especially if they are not built to the highest of standards. Imagine if one of these windows/frames or panels get damaged due to an accident or vandalism.

Zepfancouver · #**1445** Posted **Aug 31, 2023, 2:34 PM**

Aug 29 and 30, 2023 - Nice clear curved glass for these Sub Penthouses

https://makeagif.com/i/XVJSSG

Lighting 3:17 Thunder 3:23 and Driving Rain will not discourage these workers.

• Video Link

Now

officedweller · #**1446** Posted **Aug 31, 2023, 4:02 PM**

Thanks!
That's pretty much the only places with a wide expanse of floor to ceiling glass in the tower.

officedweller · #**1447** Posted **Aug 31, 2023, 11:43 PM**

By me today:

officedweller · #**1448** Posted **Sep 6, 2023, 10:18 PM**

Pic by me Sept 5th:

It would have also looked good if the top were just glass.

jollyburger · #**1449** Posted **Sep 6, 2023, 11:23 PM**

Even with all the mechanical units showing?

Spr0ckets · #**1450** Posted **Sep 7, 2023, 2:37 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by jollyburger

Even with all the mechanical units showing?

They could just use Shadow box spandrel panels, or standard back-painted spandrel glass or glazed-in metal panels.

All opaque, but treated and constructed to look like glass or glazing indistinguishable from the transparent vision glass panels.

They'd be kinda pricey, but this is a high-end building and I'm sure if it was the look they were going for, cost wouldn't be an issue.

officedweller · #**1451** Posted **Sep 7, 2023, 6:59 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by jollyburger

Even with all the mechanical units showing?

Dark tinted glass.
The mechanical units seem to be boxed in anyways.

djh · #**1452** Posted **Sep 7, 2023, 4:49 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zepfancouver

Aug 29 and 30, 2023 - Nice clear curved glass for these Sub Penthouses

https://makeagif.com/i/XVJSSG

That curved glass looks lovely and all, but judging by how tightly-fitted those panels are...I see future expansion and contraction and solar heating and winter cooling leading to too much tension in the glass. There's gonna be fractured panes at some point.

Zepfancouver · #**1453** Posted **Sep 12, 2023, 1:38 AM**

This image from today.

Glazing Sep 07 to 11, 2023

https://makeagif.com/i/lM15TD]

Today, making quick work of these pre-cast panels.
I see a temporary canvas roof over the Hvac room, I don't think the units have been delivered yet.

Today

https://makeagif.com/i/IWfB3w

jollyburger · #**1454** Posted **Sep 12, 2023, 1:45 AM**

I guess they gave up on trying to keep those panels clean.

officedweller · #**1455** Posted **Sep 14, 2023, 10:59 PM**

Pic by me today:

Zepfancouver · #**1456** Posted **Sep 15, 2023, 4:41 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by jollyburger

I guess they gave up on trying to keep those panels clean.

They gave up on the windows also.

Wouldn't be easier to clean that window before installing it.
Its going to be challenging for the window cleaning guy not to let large flakes of debris from falling and fluttering a block away

Today. From my camera on all day.
( officedweller, you should have told me you were going to visit The Stack today, I would have had my camera focused on it and captured you on the observation deck

)

This evening 7:50 pm

vanman · #**1457** Posted **Sep 15, 2023, 2:57 PM**

Looking good! Thanks for the update.

officedweller · #**1458** Posted **Sep 15, 2023, 6:37 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zepfancouver

( officedweller, you should have told me you were going to visit The Stack today, I would have had my camera focused on it and captured you on the observation deck

)

Pics by me today:

Diegotheartist1 · #**1459** Posted **Sep 15, 2023, 8:48 PM**

OMG this baby's exterior is almost done! XD

Spr0ckets · #**1460** Posted **Sep 15, 2023, 9:09 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by officedweller

Pics by me today:

Nice juxtaposition with Burrard Tower and Vancouver House towering above the rest (....and arguably also, a cut above the rest).

The lower photo is also a nice "progression" shot of architecture of different decades and eras, going from the past with the shortest tower in the foreground as you proceed into the present/future with Butterfly in the brackground.
( I think someone else once pointed out that visual connotation)