The easily queased may want to stay away from this video of the Houston Museum of Natural Science’s new Duncan Family Wing — maybe wait until this time next year when all the giant carnivores are installed and snarling at each other and things are a little more settled down. For the rest of you, this time-lapse project shows Linbeck’s construction work since last April on the just-under 200,000-sq.-ft. dinosaur-sized expansion. Enjoy this kind of action? The museum promises the $34 million building, designed by Gensler, will include the most mounted Tyrannosaurus Rex ever assembled in one place, as well 3 more carefully animated scenes showing the ancient sea floor, where “fossils will come to life” — though likely at a less frenetic, more dinosaur-friendly pace.
- NEW Time Lapse: HMNS Construction [Vimeo]
- Update: Expansion Exoskeleton and Infrastructure [Beyond Bones]
- Previously on Swamplot: Warwick Towers Survives Dinosaur Attack
Video: HMNS
I am loving this! Who added the music? Its perfect.
I got a little shiver of excitement everytime there was an instant concrete pour in the video.
But then, I love watching concrete poured in real time.
If you are prone to epileptic seizures, watching this video may be detrimental to your health…but pretty cool none-the-less.
Someone keeps climbing up to the camera and spraying water on the lens. Couldn’t be rain. We haven’t seen any in ages.
geez, buildings are complicated!
Awesome. I love how the structure ends up IN YO FACE!
Fun! And so easy to put it up so quickly when there were only four instances of rain in eight months of construction.