South-west corner of office block's steel frame on garage -- "bath-tub" -- podium structure (December 1996)

Western end of office block's building frame sitting on the "floating metal carpet," whose extension -- i.e. the curving canopy -- roofs the entrance pavilion. (January 1997)

View from the Seventh Street Bridge looking north: SMS Headquarters Building. Not seen: Andy Warhol Museum west (left) of Sandusky Street. (January 1997)

Beginning construction of the "core-building" -- a freestanding, thin vertical-slab of a building -- with cantilevered stairs at its the western end. (December 1996).   S e e   n e x t   p a g e

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