SkyHouse Charlotte, Publix and 10Tryon Tower in 4th Ward

[15895]

Are the rumors about dirt moving on the Days Inn site before SkyHouse tops out still possible?

Seen lots of cars and hotel guest there yesterday and Skyhouse seems to be chugging along

[Guest]

Are the rumors about dirt moving on the Days Inn site before SkyHouse tops out still possible?

Seen lots of cars and hotel guest there yesterday and Skyhouse seems to be chugging along

Tops out…? No. 

Top out will be 4th Qtr 2014 or 1st Qtr 2015. 

I bet dirt will be moving by 2nd or 3rd Qtr 2015.

 

Lets just hope that by then, the project will have been elevated to include retail/hotel and office on the tryon st. side of the project.

Edited July 13, 2014 by Guest

[InitialD]

Judging by the progress on Skyhouse Raleigh, it should top out before Christmas.

[HopHead]

I feel like every time I look at the SkyHouse, they are adding another floor. The pace is insane. InitialD is probably correct. Might even be Thanksgiving if they keep up this breakneck speed...

[CLTProductions]

Need to ask this perhaps ignorant question.....why couldn't most buildings go up this quickly? Or is it so cookie cutter for them at this point, that they can do it in their sleep?

[dubone]

Well I think a lot of buildings go up relatively quickly once they are past the foundation or parking deck levels.   I recall that Ave had some slowdowns because the structure of the parking was distinct from the structure of the tower so it was like they were building two foundations in one, but intertwined.  This building was clearly engineered to keep the foundation as simple as possible, because they started on floor two far quicker than most.

 

They also may be economic incentives for the builder to work quickly, as it an apartment tower, so the longer they wait, the longer they are not making rents, and the more potential residents in the marketplace find other places.  That is in contrast to condo towers where they mostly presell and then must build as cheaply as possible.    So if they're paying the builder extra to finish quicker, there would be more employees on site than building it cheaper.  

 

Regardless, it is great to see.  I am surprised to see how big it is every time I pass IRL. 

[15895]

Floor 6

Woah!

[Guest]

Floor 6

Woah!

seriously... it was on 4 on monday. this is absurd. Why don't more people build "skyhouse-like" projects.

[ah59396]

I was on 277 yesterday, down at the 77 interchange, and it already peaking out from the trees.  This thing is on fire (literally).

[dubone]

**Literarily.  

 

Or maybe it is literally on fire but they're so close to the CFD that I've never noticed.  

 

I forgot to think about how cool it will be to go down 10th from Graham and see it at the end of the street.   It will be even nicer if a 2x taller office tower in sitting directly behind it.  

[ah59396]

**Literarily.  

 

Or maybe it is literally on fire but they're so close to the CFD that I've never noticed.  

 

I forgot to think about how cool it will be to go down 10th from Graham and see it at the end of the street.   It will be even nicer if a 2x taller office tower in sitting directly behind it.  

 

 

Ha-ha, I love using literally incorrectly.  MadTv ruined my life.

 

[dubone]

Those Danish subtitles literally distracted me for that whole clip, literally.  

[tozmervo]

CURRENT AND RELEVANT. literally. 

 

 

[JoshuaDrown]

Here's some new shots I took last night while walking around Uptown. The crews were working late, this was after 7:00.

 

 

[dubone]

Wow, already to the 7th Floor (counting the mezzanine).  Which means it is already 1/4 of the way up.  

[Dale]

Literally.

[AuLukey]

You think Skyhouse is rising fast?

 

China is laughing at us:

 

http://youtu.be/rwvmru5JmXk

 

They also have a 15 story building they built in 2 days.  Sure it's prefab, but at what point do the costs offset?

[ssh214]

You think Skyhouse is rising fast?

 

China is laughing at us:

 

http://youtu.be/rwvmru5JmXk

 

They also have a 15 story building they built in 2 days.  Sure it's prefab, but at what point do the costs offset?

 

Yea I would not feel safe stepping into that building; no matter how "resistant" it may be...

Edited July 22, 2014 by saamh

[New Name]

no traffic, road closures, neighbors.... maybe they could have just built the thing completely offsite and trucked it in on a giant flatbed?

[orulz]

I guarantee it took longer than 15 days in the factory to assemble the prefab components of that building. Nevertheless, the modular construction of a skyscraper is pretty impressive.

[km1789]

look at who is peeking up behind the trees... I was stopped at the light at 7th and Brevard on the way to work this morning.

[DMann]

It looked like a backhoe was attacking the swimming pool at the City, formerly Days, Inn this morning.

[atlrvr]

Base on other Skyhouse projects...I suspect they begin working on the exterior facade within the next week.  I'm thinking this thing is topped out before the end of October.

[Niner National]

Base on other Skyhouse projects...I suspect they begin working on the exterior facade within the next week.  I'm thinking this thing is topped out before the end of October.

That's so crazy. I know Skyhouse isn't unique in design, but I wish more high rises were built this way. As long as we have some signature towers to define our skyline (which we do), I don't mind if a lot of the residential or small infill projects are built on a template design as long as we're not getting multiple identical buildings in the city. I don't really care that much if some of our buildings exist in other cities.

[ah59396]

That's so crazy. I know Skyhouse isn't unique in design, but I wish more high rises were built this way. As long as we have some signature towers to define our skyline (which we do), I don't mind if a lot of the residential or small infill projects are built on a template design as long as we're not getting multiple identical buildings in the city. I don't really care that much if some of our buildings exist in other cities.

 

 

As long as you have signature towers, the skyline will always look good.  Think about it, a city like NYC, which arguably has the greatest skyline on earth.  I bet it has 100 carbon copies of the same damn residential mid-high rise sprinkled throughout Manhattan.  But you don't look at those, you look at Empire, or Chrysler, or new WTC, ect ect.