What is it? Doesn’t it look a little like the face of a narrow-eyed animal — a fox, say? A stretch, perhaps.
This is the underside of the canopy over the taxi stand at Palaceside Building’s east entrance, which we mentioned in this
blog on August 18. Yes — the roof is on.
In sequence: where there had been only columns, the roof frame was set at the end of August (photos at left, above).
Then in September the roof itself went on (photos at left, middle).
This week, scaffolding went up for the finishing
work around the roof (photos at left, below).
Work should now accelerate toward completion at the end of this month. As we wrote last time, construction is in principle at night (10:00 p.m.–6:00 a.m.) so as not to inconvenience people in the building or on the sidewalk.
Now, the roof in the opening
photo. The style is the same two round arches side by side, but this is not the old roof — it is brand new. The previous one was iron; the new one is aluminum, so it is much lighter. As we also wrote, the old roof rose in a triangle and could open; it had not been opened in a long time, and the new roof does not open.
Between the two arches is a flat section that is to receive transparent resin. Last week there was still nothing there, and you could
see straight through to the building’s south face and the sky (photo at right, below) (the scaffolding now blocks the view).
We ask for your understanding a little longer until the work is finished.