During most of its construction phase, however, its top-heavy design was reminiscent of the horizontal skyscrapers proposed by the avant-garde Russian architect El Lissitzky nearly a century ago. Fabrication became a spectacle as each floor of the building was assembled on the ground before being hoisted into place along the two concrete cores.
Steve Houston, Senior Director of LIFTbuild, speaks to Architect’s Newspaper/ “We’re taking a sequence of work that had traditionally been done in a serial manner and identifying where we could pull all of those activities in parallel,” Steve Houston, senior director of LIFTbuild, told AN. Initial logistical challenges were overcome by working closely alongside local contractors and subcontractors who joined the project early in development “to help with the learning curve of completing the work on the ground rather than at height,” according to Houston. Click here to read more of the article in The Architect’s Newspaper.