The Towers a 360 View — August 3, 2018

A View From a Window:

This view of the construction project was taken from one of the seventh floor corridor windows that are located between the south elevators and the south cloverleaf tower. From this vantage point the employees and patients have had an excellent view of the construction project. However, this view comes with a price. A view from this window has allowed one to see the San Jacinto Mountain range (elevation 10,800 feet) some fifty miles away. In the summer those silhouetted peaks bask in the azure skies or are partially hidden by monsoonal clouds. Sometimes in the winter, the range would be covered with snow. The windows of that corridor which have allowed the sunrise to grant its early morning blessing on those who walked the hall now receive shafts of light beaming between the steel columns and girders. Soon the sun’s rays will be blocked by the sheer walls of the new towers of healing just a short chip shot away.

To end this exciting week, I thought it would be fun to take a 360 degree look at the construction project. Now that the towers are beginning to be defined, we are able to visualize the two separate hospitals as they rise out of the podium. The last segment of this blog we will explore the structure from the west where most of the floors go to the eighth floor. Since the Children’s Hospital will soon top out about the tenth story, I thought it would be fun to try and estimate how tall the hospital will be when it tops out.

North View of Podium and Adult Tower

South View of Podium, Children’s Hospital, and Adult Hospital Towers

Southwest View of Podium, Children’s Hospital and Adult Hospital Towers

East View of the Podium

East View of the Towers From the Sixth Floor

The two bays to the left are the Children’s Hospital Tower, the two bays in the center are the elevator tower, and the two bays at the right are the Adult Hospital towers. At the west side of the the elevator tower, the Children’s Hospital tower will step in a whole bay while the Adult Hospital tower will step out approximately two-thirds of a bay.

West Veiw

The two hospital towers as viewed from the west. From the seventh floor area of the current Children’s Hospital helicopter pad, I was able to snap an excellent photo of the two towers as they begin to rise above the podium. On the right is the Children’s Hospital tower. To the left is the Adult Hospital tower. Center left is elevator tower. Between the elevator tower and the Children’s Hospital, center right, is the bridge corridor from the Children’s Hospital to the central elevators and/or to the Adult Hospital.

A closer view of the towers. Note the sunlight shinning through the west atrium in the center of the photograph.

The Adult Tower as seen from grade.

A view from the Children’s Hospital Helipad.

Children’s Hospital Tower — Estimated Height

A Just for Fun Illustration

We know that the new Children’s Hospital tower will be nine (9) stories tall, which an approximate half story above for mechanical equipment (M) and the roof. The rendering a the right is a close estimate as to how tall the Children’s Hospital will be. A rendering of the Adult Hospital tower will be left for another blog. In the center will be the elevator tower and the corridor to the elevators from the Children’s Hospital. Above the existing Children’s Hospital columns, one more two story will be set topping out the structure at approximately ten stories. Sometime in the not to distant future once the two towers join, I will feature an illustration of the Adult Hospital. This rendering is not exactly to scale.