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zpatten · #**1781** Posted **Sep 8, 2016, 9:25 PM**

Have official renderings/elevation drawings ever been released? It seems like this one is going up with everyone just having a general idea of what it might look like.

thisisforreal · #**1782** Posted **Sep 8, 2016, 10:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by zpatten

Have official renderings/elevation drawings ever been released? It seems like this one is going up with everyone just having a general idea of what it might look like.

This is the one I used when making the diagram for the building.

Philly Fan · #**1783** Posted **Sep 8, 2016, 10:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by mmikeyphilly

Good golly gee, I will never bring up "porta-potty" again!

Sorry, but your repeated use of "Port-a-Potty" and "movement" (get it?

) in the same sentence was just too tempting to resist (must be my juvenile, potty-minded sense of humor

).

thisisforreal · #**1784** Posted **Sep 9, 2016, 11:51 AM**

Sept 8th:

Sept 9th:

Whu215 · #**1785** Posted **Sep 10, 2016, 12:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by thisisforreal

Sept 8th:

Port-a-Potty has moved again. Whu215, let us know if they're moving them while occupied. Might be an OSHA violation, but it's funny enough to allow it.

They're never occupied while moving.

Reason they're moved so often is the lack of real estate down here. It's like a big game of Tetris trying to situate everything so we can move along with the build.

Pretty much every day we're working on the deck, core, sheer walls and retaining walls with come columns in there as well. It's hard for people to know the complexity of a job site without being in the thick of it.

P.S. I was wearing a pink shirt today on the north side wall if anyone snapped new pics.

thisisforreal · #**1786** Posted **Sep 12, 2016, 12:35 PM**

Sept 9th:

Sept 12th:

thisisforreal · #**1787** Posted **Sep 13, 2016, 11:21 AM**

Sept 13th:

skyscraper · #**1788** Posted **Sep 13, 2016, 12:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by thisisforreal

Sept 13th:

It's awesome that you can give us a consistent view of this thing so we can see all the incremental progress it makes as it goes up. You should string together a time lapse of all your photos when it is finished. What will your view be like when the building is at the point where you have to start looking up at it instead of down?

thisisforreal · #**1789** Posted **Sep 13, 2016, 1:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by skyscraper

It's awesome that you can give us a consistent view of this thing so we can see all the incremental progress it makes as it goes up. You should string together a time lapse of all your photos when it is finished. What will your view be like when the building is at the point where you have to start looking up at it instead of down?

I've been doing my best to frame the image the same every day. I might start slowly zooming out, day after day, like a stop-motion filmmaker and transition to portrait mode instead of landscape. That'll buy me 30 floors or so. Then enable panoramic photos. That should work through topping out.

thisisforreal · #**1790** Posted **Sep 14, 2016, 12:49 PM**

Sept 13th:

Sept 14th:

summersm343 · #**1791** Posted **Sep 16, 2016, 1:44 AM**

Update from Building Philly

https://www.facebook.com/BuildingPhilly

thisisforreal · #**1792** Posted **Sep 16, 2016, 11:04 AM**

Sept 14th:

Sept 16th:

Bonus pic comparing current depth to actual lowest point:

slow-v6 · #**1793** Posted **Sep 16, 2016, 3:25 PM**

My wife and I went to delfriscos for restaurant week on Monday, and this site is right across The street. I was thinking for everyone that bought a apartment facing south in the residence at the ritz, that their view will gone!!

jsbrook · #**1794** Posted **Sep 16, 2016, 3:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by slow-v6

My wife and I went to delfriscos for restaurant week on Monday, and this site is right across The street. I was thinking for everyone that bought a apartment facing south in the residence at the ritz, that their view will gone!!

Yes. True. But the Ritz was designed and built with the expectation that something would go up on this lot. The elevator bank was designed to comprise most of the space that would have this view. Only two unit types of many have this view, and it's not their only view.

slow-v6 · #**1795** Posted **Sep 16, 2016, 4:21 PM**

I hear that.

Whu215 · #**1796** Posted **Sep 16, 2016, 9:14 PM**

Pour day, actually poured a lot of concrete this week.

Whu215 · #**1797** Posted **Sep 16, 2016, 9:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by slow-v6

My wife and I went to delfriscos for restaurant week on Monday, and this site is right across The street. I was thinking for everyone that bought a apartment facing south in the residence at the ritz, that their view will gone!!

I built the Ritz too.