Construction is Under Way!
April 29, 2009
Another beautiful day as Mirabella at South Waterfront continues to climb! The level-7 post tension slab, at the northern half of the site, was poured on Monday, 04-27-2009, followed shortly by the level-8 slab formwork, which is underway. This aerial view is from the northwest and is taken from the 15th floor observation deck of the OHSU Center for Health and Healing.
This view is from the southwest at the corner of SW Moody and SW Gaines looking northeast, taken from the 22nd floor of the new Riva building. At the bottom left of the picture, the City of Portland continues construction on the South Waterfront Neighborhood Park which is likely to open late fall of 2009.
This is a view from the northeast corner of SW River Parkway and SW Curry Street looking southwest. Exterior and interior metal stud framing has reached the tower (north) half of the building, visible at level-2. Formwork is now underway for the level-8 post tension slab on the tower, this is visible at the top right of the picture. The majority of the temporary forming system panels have been removed through the underside of the level-6, while the yellow shoring poles have been partially removed, but still visible on several floors.
This view is looking east from the southwest corner of SW Bond Avenue and SW Curry Street. The windows are now being installed on the podium and can be seen placed up to level-4, center of photo. The large window sections visible on level-3 are examples of the window wall system. The window wall incorporates spandrel glass, the light blue areas of the window wall, visible in the center and center right of the above photo. Spandrel glass is typically specified for buildings' nonvision areas to mask construction materials, while maintaining a glass façade. The entry canopy, which will welcome you to Mirabella, is visible at the lower left of photo.
The above photo was taken as the tower crane was lifting the form work for the level-8 slab into place. This type of form panel is known as a “flier table” or “crane flier” and is being utilized due to the repetitiveness of the tower slabs. The table seen extruding from the slab at the lower left of the photo is the next table to be lowered, swung out from under the slab and lifted into place. This view is of the south side of the tower.
