Hamilton 500 Upper Wellington Street | 26.81m | 6s | Fengate | Core Architects

[Don Coyote]

Yesterday

 

[Chris R.]

Yesterday
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Wowza. Loving it. Looking forward to going by and seeing the cladding going up and eventual retail spaces filled.

 

[Chris R.]

Poking up behind houses in the neighbourhood next door, seen while cycling for the first time on the mountain:

 

[Chris R.]

Drove past this time so I couldn't grab a picture, but the elevator shaft forms are in place it appears for the 6th and final living floor. It does appear that there is a setback 7th floor for mechanical, but the final floor has begun. Curious to see the cladding on this, but even more excited to see the landscaping. With the extensive retail space, they could really make this a heavily used area from the quiet streets behind where people could walk to.

 

[Chris R.]

Today:

 

[Chris R.]

No pictures unfortunately because I was driving, but the south side of this development has topped out. The north side still has a floor or two to go. Not much to take a photo of at least since it's the same but just a floor taller.

 

[PaperSun]

 

[Chris R.]

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Is that cladding I see? Surprised the cranes are still up!

 

[DavidCapizzano]

Is that cladding I see? Surprised the cranes are still up!

Probably using it to lift precast into place

 

[Chris R.]

Probably using it to lift precast into place

Makes sense. I'm always surprised when construction doesn't use the cranes to lift regularly arriving heavy items like windows and exterior cladding instead using ground cranes and elevators. It seems it would be more efficient to use the tower crane.

 

[innsertnamehere]

looks like the MPH needs to be built still too.

 

[ProjectEnd]

Probably using it to lift precast into place

Makes sense. I'm always surprised when construction doesn't use the cranes to lift regularly arriving heavy items like windows and exterior cladding instead using ground cranes and elevators. It seems it would be more efficient to use the tower crane.

Tower cranes aren't useful for that kind of work: they have too much capacity, they're not precise enough, and their position atop the building makes lifts of that nature even more difficult. I'm not familiar with this site but it's unlikely they'd be using them for precast (again, I'm not saying they're not, just that it's quite rare in the industry). They're also expensive ($20K/mo on average) so getting them down and off your rental role is important. You're not going to artificially just keep one around to lift things as light as precast into place.

looks like the MPH needs to be built still too.

Final forming on top and not visible from the street would be my guess here.

 

[Chris R.]

Today: