Seen from the SE, the East Wall's East side is the most complex of all. This is because various pieces, which will connect it to Gathering Together Hall, are getting started: the ends and the gate in the middle all reach out to the right. In the future they will continue to form the courtyard to the west of GTH.
Same wall from the NE shows the preparations for the surrounding walkway continue on the left, and the bridge over the water element on the right. Look at Frank, working in two places at the same time!
Here in close-up, we can see the men standing on a bridge, actually on the form-work for a concrete bridge, which will span the water element flowing from the courtyard to this side. They are setting the form for the last piece of the east wall, which, along with a couple other small wall elements, will be shot-creted. The small rectangles, embedded in the walls...sometimes light colored, sometimes dark, are the steel plates to which the steel cores of the roofs will be welded.
Meanwhile, back-filling, and, here preparing for small concrete slab at the south gate, as well as for the large slab in the courtyard itself, continue all around the site.
Forms and re-bar are being set where ever sidewalks and ramps will be poured. Here pieces of fiber-board are being attached to form expansion joint between walk and wall. In the summer concrete can expand enough to crack adjacent walls or walks if such joints are not placed between them.
What's missing? No container! Still tied up in port, clearing USDA (Agriculture) inspection (bugs in the wooden crates?) and customs. Someday soon we hope it will be released.
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