Hudson Yards Takes Form

With a month and a half to go, we've all achieved a fairly decent level of progress in our studio. Most of us have all the floor slabs cut and are now moving on to applying the double skin structure to the building. This basically means a second layer of glass in front of the outer walls of the tower to allow for an air cavity to let in natural ventilation. Remember you just can't open a window at the 47th floor to let in a breeze. It's like Apollo 13 up there. One of the many buildings that use this envelope system is the Swiss Re Tower (the Gherkin) in London, by Sir Norman Foster.

Here's the nearly-finished version of my tower with floor plates cut. Can you feel the explosion happening? Somewhat? Huh, huh?...
The Hudson Yards slowly taking shape on the mezzanine.

To the left of my "Colliding Particle Tower", the "Snowflake Tower", far left, "Slaughterhouse Tower", at the back, "Shark Tower", and to the right, a skyscraper from the other grad studio.
The "River Tower" in front.
Closeup of the "Slaughterhouse Tower"