Eclipse, Bricks and Perspective

My engineer-husband and I got up very early this morning to see the lunar eclipse.  Since he used my camera, I thought you might like to see the pictures.

He didn't have a construction fence so the camera would hold still; instead he used a tripod.  The moon turned red as the eclipse progressed.  One of the largest stars in our sky, Spica, is on the right, but perspective makes it look tiny.

Mars was also quite visible, in the top corner.  I know you are used to the concrete pump showing up in my night pictures, not planets.

Fortunately, the concrete pump watched the eclipse and then headed over to the site.

He poured a few forms on the west side of the south lot.  Are you familiar enough with the different perspectives on the site that you recognize Center Street along the top of this photo?  Scaffolding for the south face of the tabernacle is in the way, but Center Street is there.

From this view at the south end of the lot, we can see the anterior room of the pavilion taking shape.

Concrete for the east wall of the underground garage is being poured as forms are built.

The anterior room is long, but on the right you can see where the forms turn back to the center of the lot where a little neck joins the anterior room to the lower level of the pavilion.

From the perspective on the east, it's a little easier to see the beginnings of that neck.

Green rebar is being placed in preparation for the pouring of the mirror image of the pavilion footings.

The entrance into the anterior room, in the center of this photo, actually lines up with the underground entrance to the temple, just not from the perspective of where I was standing along the south fence.  Patrons will enter the temple from this south side, either at the entrance at ground level which can be seen, or the underground entrance from the parking garage.

Generally patrons will walk through the temple from south to north, passing far under Moroni.  Cinder block for the mechanical building is on the right.  I'm told that with landscaping, we'll completely ignore it.

An annex is out of sight under this large area on the north lot.  The annex has changing rooms which are not necessary to be in the temple proper, although it will be dedicated like everything else.

While we can't see the work going on inside, we can see the form work outside.

Rebar in these trenches will be beams for the underground garage.  You remember that the orange tension cables will be stretched in all the cardinal directions to reinforce the garage roof.

Rebar is now being placed along the top of the forms to support the concrete.  Mr. Pigeon is inspecting the work.

The east wall in the south lot seems to be the same distance from the east barrier wall as it was in the north lot.  Soon we'll see it covered with the waterproofing barrier.

This view from the perspective of the construction cam shows special preparations for the stairwells coming up from the garage below.

From the cam, it appears that a layer of copper sheathing is going over the hot water tubing.  This part of the steeple was covered when the copper sheath was placed there, so we didn't see it happen.

My camera zoomed in to get a good look.  When I got home, I saw numbers.

Someone wants to make sure the workmen get all the pieces exactly in the right place...

Because the supervisors can't keep an eye on everything.

You are pleased, I know, that we've been able to watch the brick repair on the west side.

I will confess that getting good pictures is not as easy as it was on the north side.

It's a long way across the west lot, and the forms for the emergency stairwell get in the way.

But it's worth the effort.

The brick repair will be visible to all when the temple is completed.

This niche is showing evidence of the stabilizing effort from the interior protruding through to the outside.  It will all be repaired and made beautiful.

Before the mechanical shop grew on the west lot, I could get good pictures of the temple from the area just south of the Nu Skin building, but that view is now completely blocked.

The concrete over this west garage has cured enough that vehicles can drive on top.

At least one part of the new temple is complete.

And some of the surrounding areas don't need any work at all.