Wocka Flocka Flame Center
901 Walnut Street
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| Those wooden construction elevator doors make a more interesting facade than the one it's gonna have! |
Well the Health Professions Academic Building Jefferson Clinical Research Center (try to say it all in one breath) a.k.a. Wocka Flocka Flame Center is getting slapped together rather quickly. Bricks (or panels with bricks glued to them) and some kind of stony cladding have started to grow out from the bottom. An endless maze of mechanicals go up to the fifth floor. Sprayed Foamy Shit all over up to the ninth floor. Steel girders seem to be topped out.
Only the red and dark red brick is being put up so far. White bricks will also be used, according to the rendering. Of course, renderings are often highly inaccurate compared to the final product so I might be completely full of shit on that. They could have tried harder making this thing match the beautifully facaded Edison Building attached to its rear but oh well. Here's more pics:
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| Seems a little redundant to put bricks over steel girders but shut the fuck up, we have enough glass boxes. |
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| Plasticky bricks glued to panels on the left, hand-laid bricks in kick-ass patterns from the Edison Building on the right. Shouldn't have bricklaying gotten better in 84 years, not worse? |
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| Just in case you forgot what it's supposed to look like. |
I saw one of those pre-fab brick panels still on the truck on 9th street this week. It's pre-formed concrete with terra-cotta tiles just a little thicker than floor tiles attached in a brick like pattern. I didn't scrutinize enough to see how they were attached because I was too blown away by the fact that they totally faked me out by using real ceramic tiles!
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