Structural steel is rising into shape for the AbbVie Foundation Cancer Pavilion at the University of Chicago in Hyde Park. General contractor Turner Construction has the steel up to the underside of the fourth and fifth levels as it begins to wrap around the twin concrete cores.
Lakeside Alliance, the construction conglomerate building the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, announced the topping out of the Center’s Museum Tower on their LinkedIn account earlier this month. The Chicago Sun-Times reported then that the Presidential Center was about 56% complete.
The concrete core is rising from the foundation at the University of Chicago’s state-of-the-art Cancer Center on its Hyde Park campus. The University and general contractor Turner Construction received a foundation permit on December 12 of last year. The “core and shell” permit issued May 9 of this year authorized them to build the core seen in the photos, which will rise nine stories in total, including one below grade.
Façade work continues at the Advocate Illinois Masonic Center for Advanced Care western expansion in Lake View. At 900 W Nelson Street, Turner Construction topped out the project in February, and took the tower crane down in May.
The Museum Tower at the Obama Presidential Center continues its rise upward at 6001 South Stony Island in Jackson Park. While wood construction forms at the top of the tower add intrigue to progress viewing, the tower is now being clad with granite panels, adding texture and color to the stark gray concrete.
