55 Sheridan Street

The last of the heavy lifting, Coyle Iron this week installed the framing and stringers for the fire escape. Contractor Kevin Birmingham artfully solved the puzzle by breaking the lifting into two steps: move the last tall vertical pieces toward the back of the lot by forklift then borrow the nearby Best Western parking lot for a few hours to park a crane and lift the tall pieces from their temporary positions. All without lifting over power lines or neighboring properties!

The Coyle Iron team took it from there to finish the installation as you can see below.

The dynamic duo of Jose Herrera and Marcos Aguirre gave lessons in how to do serious welding for anyone paying attention today. Check them out.

Contractor Kevin Birmingham carries a camera and, as you can see from some of his recent snaps here, he knows how to use it.

Stopped by the site this afternoon to find Marcos & Jose (L & R) getting some things tidied up top side–40 feet off the deck. Great crew! Looking good up there!

Now we can see the way the volumes mass and get the first hint of the experience passing through the front entry way envisioned by architect Olle Lundberg.

No more work has been done since it’s the weekend, but we find ourselves fascinated with the steel.

Two days later the building demonstrates its form.

One of the good things about steel is that it goes up really fast. At least it does if you don’t have to crane over power lines. Or if you can actually fit the crane on site. As it turns out neither of those conditions held completely true for our project. So it went up pretty fast. Here’s what it looked like a day or two into it.