This looks rather like a roof. Perhaps four floors is where we will end?
Tag: CofRMotel
And the fourth floor cometh. As does the light.
Will we top out at four floors? Stay tuned.
Third floor, corner room.
A long shot, so you can see how the new building is stacking up to the house next door. That house was for sale a few years ago, and it turns out to be a good thing I didn’t buy it. It’s pretty easy to look in the backyard now. I still like the green tin roof, though.
But here’s the small (and out of focus) detail for today. I’m very interested that these corner rooms seem to be triangle-shaped. So far both the second and third floors are like that. I’d like to see them from the inside.
And these telephone poles have appeared in the lot across the street. I can’t tell if they have anything to do with this construction or not.
City of Roses Motel. New fence and almost complete second floor.
There’s a new fence separating the new construction from the house next door. It looks quite nice.
The second floor has turned the corner.
And is nearly complete.
City of Roses Motel. Kind of reminds me of 10th Grade PE class.
When I walk by in the morning, the construction crews are gathering. They’re all wearing versions of the same thing, like we had to be dressed in athletic clothing for PE. They all stand around and roll is called, which is exactly what happened, except we had to stand in a line. Then the roll-calling guy tells them what’s going to happen that day. Just like we got daily instruction of a new PE technique or were told to play the game we’d been taught.
Here’s a smiley-face for you to think about. When this building is ripped down someday in the future, will someone discover this smiley face under the siding and wonder who put it there? I like this the way I like messages painted on steel I-beams when tall buildings are constructed.
The second floor is marching across the north part of the construction site. And it’s getting lighter a little bit earlier every single day.
And we have a second floor!
See that! It just popped up overnight. (Actually, it probably just popped up over day.)
City of Roses in the light.
A peek into the northern part. Why that odd cutout in the back?
Workers in action.
City of Roses Motel. Buttoning up.
All of the wooden awnings have been squared off and the south side of the work site’s framing has been covered.
I’m interested in what these big indentations are going to turn out to be. There is more than one of them. Recessed mini-courtyard?
The north side of the site has these big beams going in, which leads me to believe that I’m right about this part having more stories than the south side. Also the constructed nature of those big beams is prompting me to tell you that in my work building, all those big beams are solid wood. Because my work building was built when they were still cutting the old growth and it was no thing to mill huge beams like that.
I’m pretty good with spacial relations, but I can’t quite figure out the configuration of the space without walking through it.
City of Roses. Wooden awnings.
I liked how this awning hadn’t been cut off flush yet. These seem to be a design feature very much of the current era. My own house (built in 2007) has them.
City of Roses Motel gets woodier.
Workers have been busy framing up the site.