Studio Gang's Aqua starts to Flow (original) (raw)
[March 19, 2007] - It's actually happening. Aqua, the rippling 82-story tower designed by Studio/Gang's Jeanne Gang and Mark Schendel is 
beginning to rise on its site at Columbus and Lake in Magellan Development's massive Lakeshore East complex.
You usually don't see all the things that go into a skyscraper laid out before you like a jigsaw puzzle ready to be assembled, but that was the case this weekend, as crews from McHugh Construction, the contractor of record for the project, were preparing for the sinking of the cassions that will support the tower. Here's some initial photographs, beginning with one of the dwarf trees on the site pathetically clinging to the final days of its doomed life.
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