I can’t stop! Yesterday when I was walking by the Sun-Times there was a lot of action going on that I couldn’t resist taking photos of. Especially the welding. There were people welding both in the grids where the street used to be and inside the building.
See also:
» Wabash Avenue is Gone (01.20.05)
» Sun Times Park (01.14.05)
» Documenting the Sun-Times Building Destruction (01.13.05)
» That’s One Way to Take It Down (12.29.04)
» Sun-Times Demolition Continues (11.29.04)
» Sun-Times Demolition, or Lack Thereof (11.05.04)
» Sun-Times Building to Trump Tower Transformation (10.29.04)
» Sun-Times Building Empty, Employees May Strike (10.18.04)
» Make Way for Chicago Trump Tower (03.19.04)
10 responses so far ↓
1 Raych // Jan 21, 2005 at 7:59 am
The only thing that doesn’t quite make sense to me is the order of operations. I guess I would have expected them to take the whole building down first then do whatever they had to do to the street. The City of Chicago, Suprising us every day…
2 joe // Jan 21, 2005 at 11:23 am
Are they welding or cutting through the steel?
3 Richard // Jan 21, 2005 at 12:07 pm
I’d say they are cutting through the existing welds so they can remove the beams.
4 rachelle // Jan 21, 2005 at 2:06 pm
i kind of wish they would just explode the thing, but then my nice photo essays would be over.
5 joel // Jan 21, 2005 at 3:47 pm
I’m torn between feeling bad for those poor suckers, because they have to work outside, and jealous, because I know they’re probably getting paid very handsomely for doing so.
anyways - keep the photos comin’, Rachelle :).
6 joe // Jan 21, 2005 at 3:47 pm
yes, but think how dramatic that one last photo would be.
7 andrew // Jan 22, 2005 at 4:38 am
Hey Rachelle, did they whistle at you when you took your photos of their work??
8 Don // Jan 22, 2005 at 10:46 am
Rachelle: Date your photographs in the captions–it will make for a nice chronicle.
9 Edwin // Jan 22, 2005 at 2:19 pm
What! No Caterpillar Machines?*lol* I work at a Caterpillar machine dealership and before I started working there I used to not notice or care what kind of machines are at construction sites. Now, everytime I see a machine I look for the Cat logo and it’s someone else’s, I go, eh, who cares…those things suck! No Cat? What’s up with that? =)
10 ArthurE212 // Jan 22, 2005 at 3:17 pm
Do I see a “coffee table book” coming?
Pretty soon we’ll be watching the building going UP.
Great photoessay - I especially like the welding shot and the one of the toy red scooper in the hole.
I took some photos of the Time Warner Building in NYC going up - I should post them.
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