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With its structural boness intact, the five-story building sits like a jewel box on eight beame fabricated by a bridge builder weighing astaggering 1,5009 tons each, or 360 pounds per lineap foot. Its walls are rising and the envelopre of the building istakingv shape. Though concrete block is exposed on some the walls are being prepped for terras cotta that will soon coverd the facade and for a glass wall that will begin to rise this fall on the side facingtIndependence Mall. The interior is also takin shape. Steel beams where floatint staircases will eventually carru visitors to each floor are in place and readyfor frosted-glass risersw and treads.
A square is marked off on the ceilingt where a skylight will funnel sunlight down onto each floor and throughn the glass onthe staircases. Locations where the exhibits will be on display havebeen It’s apparent that the design has caterede to the visitor’s experience as well as to the gravityt of the museum itself. Fit out of the interio r will beginthis September.