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Here are the 2 pics that I took:

Thanks! Your higher vantage point and camera are obviously better than mine. But hey I do what I can. In any event, it's going to be a fun ride watching this go up.

Awesome!

Wow, did all that go up today?

Brad wrote:Wow, did all that go up today?

Yes, as far as I know. I was in AV on Sunday and there was nothing then.

More steel has arrived:

Okay, now I think I understand the tower crane delay… They're waiting for steel to go up to anchor it against.

Thank you for the photos! Please keep them coming! :-)

I'm assuming your taking your photo's from the Pacific Life building? If so they are really nice High def photo's and I'm liking the progress being made on the building. Hopefully they can get the steel structure up before Fall. Can't wait to see the final building when it's all completed. It will truly be a amazing site to see. That Hilton hotel though is sure taking there sweet time. lol

Update:

More steel going further up today. My rotten cell phone though didn't do a photo justice.

guy4omaha wrote:More steel going further up today. My rotten cell phone though didn't do a photo justice.

Yes, third floor steel going up at HDR.
Second story wood almost done at the Garden Inn.

Looks like the rest of the "Big" crane has been brought in for assembly today.

I was able to spruce the photo up a bit. Beams rising 4 floors high on left. Tower crane laying in yard on right.

Thanks for the update, sill no movement on that tower crane.

Looking good. Driving by Aksarben Village,, I always peek over to see the progress. That whole area just keeps getting better & better.

The cab for the tower crane arrived today so maybe the crane will be going up soon.

You can really see the angles taking shape on the north west corner.
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Model for reference:

BigBadTimmyJimmy wrote:Found on twitter.

Whoa nice find!

Seeing that model helps a lot. This building will have quite the presence. It is amazing to see the whole area really come together in just the past two or three years.

It looks like they took a 1960's design, but to try to make it look different, they took a wedge out of the bottom corner. I'm not impressed.

OmahaOmaha wrote:It looks like they took a 1960's design, but to try to make it look different, they took a wedge out of the bottom corner. I'm not impressed.

Completely agree with this opinion. Not impressed.

ryan311 wrote:

OmahaOmaha wrote:It looks like they took a 1960's design, but to try to make it look different, they took a wedge out of the bottom corner. I'm not impressed.

Completely agree with this opinion. Not impressed.

Don't take this the wrong way, but what is a good design and what would you expect here, specifically from HDR? Just asking because there has been mostly complaints about our architecture lately and I'm trying to understand what's so wrong with it.

Busguy2010 wrote:

ryan311 wrote:

OmahaOmaha wrote:It looks like they took a 1960's design, but to try to make it look different, they took a wedge out of the bottom corner. I'm not impressed.

Completely agree with this opinion. Not impressed.

Don't take this the wrong way, but what is a good design and what would you expect here, specifically from HDR? Just asking because there has been mostly complaints about our architecture lately and I'm trying to understand what's so wrong with it.

It's a boring glass box with a chunk cut out from the corner. Not even a unique angle on the roof or an artistic outshoot like the top of pinnacle bank headquarters. Just very "meh". It's on par with the Think building, which doesn't make sense given HDR needs to show off a little bit of their architectural design to potential customers.

Make no mistake, I'm grateful HDR decided to stay and build their new corporate headquarters in Omaha..

From a project standpoint.. I couldn't be less impressed, excited, interested..

And underwhelmed...

Ciao..LiO...Peace

Omaha Cowboy wrote:Make no mistake, I'm grateful HDR decided to stay and build their new corporate headquarters in Omaha..

From a project standpoint.. I couldn't be less impressed, excited, interested..

And underwhelmed...

Ciao..LiO...Peace

Agreed. I guess if anything that triangular carve out is the one thing setting it apart from any generic office building along W Dodge.

There might be some truth to what the 80's group The Motels said in one of their songs...."If he likes me, he must not be good enough." In other words, the design is so damn sophisticated, that nobody else get's it. They need to tell people why it's so great.

buildomaha wrote:

Busguy2010 wrote:

ryan311 wrote:

OmahaOmaha wrote:It looks like they took a 1960's design, but to try to make it look different, they took a wedge out of the bottom corner. I'm not impressed.

Completely agree with this opinion. Not impressed.

Don't take this the wrong way, but what is a good design and what would you expect here, specifically from HDR? Just asking because there has been mostly complaints about our architecture lately and I'm trying to understand what's so wrong with it.

It's a boring glass box with a chunk cut out from the corner. Not even a unique angle on the roof or an artistic outshoot like the top of pinnacle bank headquarters. Just very "meh". It's on par with the Think building, which doesn't make sense given HDR needs to show off a little bit of their architectural design to potential customers.

For the one thousanth time, no they don't. You all have seemingly missed my other comments - the VAST majority (80 percent or more) of their work is engineering related - which means budget conscious clients. Something crazy architecturally would cost more money and likely turn off their engineering clients. Also, why? What is your reasoning for them needing to "show off" to their customers when they have an entire portfolio to do that? Nobody is booking you on the success of one building - and let alone - that building be your own. They are also very aware that the building needs to fit the area - this building fits in Aksarben very well.

Looks like they set up a webcam on top of genesis to monitor progress

Working on the tower crane today!

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They were moving pieces of the tower crane around on Friday too. I was thinking that they were going to assemble it then. It seems like they are taking forever to get this up.

skinzfan23 wrote:They were moving pieces of the tower crane around on Friday too. I was thinking that they were going to assemble it then. It seems like they are taking forever to get this up.

I went down 72nd Street and it was not up tonight.

They're most likely waiting to set up the tower crane until the crane they've been using doesn't reach high enough. Simple as that. Also, tower cranes can be up to 250' tall without secondary support back to another structure.

It's funny how people on this site seem to get more excited about cranes than the permanent buildings themselves.

GetUrban wrote:It's funny how people on this site seem to get more excited about cranes than the permanent buildings themselves.

Completely accurate, I couldn't care less about a tower cran...

buildomaha wrote:

GetUrban wrote:It's funny how people on this site seem to get more excited about cranes than the permanent buildings themselves.

Completely accurate, I couldn't care less about a tower cran...

People aren't excited about the crane as a structure, they are excited what it does.

GetUrban wrote:It's funny how people on this site seem to get more excited about cranes than the permanent buildings themselves.

I don't care about the crane more than the building. To me its one of the milestones on major projects.

1. Announcement/Renderings
2. Work Begins
3. Crane goes up
4. Building is topped out
5. Grand Opening

Linkin5 wrote:

buildomaha wrote:

GetUrban wrote:It's funny how people on this site seem to get more excited about cranes than the permanent buildings themselves.

Completely accurate, I couldn't care less about a tower cran...

People aren't excited about the crane as a structure, they are excited what it does.

Tower cranes are a highly visible indicator, from a long distance, that something significant is getting built... I'll give you that.