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FROM THE SITE

Taking shape.

Steel framing and brickwork taking shape.

A wide ground-level view of Senja's steel columns and upper frame, with a crane truck inside the site.
The frame from ground level.
An upward view of steel columns and beams against a blue, partly cloudy sky.
Looking up through the steelwork.
Steel beams span the construction site above a crane truck, workers and stacked bricks.
Inside the structure.
New brick walls rise between steel columns, with scaffolding and workers beside them.
Walls taking shape between the columns.
Two workers lay a low brick wall beside a steel column, with bricks and mortar ready nearby.
Brickwork underway.
A closer view of workers laying bricks and spreading mortar along the top of a new wall.
Brick by brick.

The upper floor finds its curve.

The steel frame seen from the street across the car park, now with its upper floor and curved end rising above the blue Johor site hoarding.
From the street, two weeks on.
From the street corner, the upper-floor frame curves around its end above the hoarding, with a parked car in the foreground.
The curved end of the upper floor.
A wide upward view inside the steel frame, beams crossing overhead, with a crane truck and rainwater on the slab beyond.
Inside the frame.
Looking straight up at a curved steel beam and its purlins against a bright, cloudy sky.
The curve against the sky.
Rainwater on the slab reflects the steel frame and a crane truck, with shophouses beyond the site hoarding.
The frame in the rainwater.
The two-storey steel frame rising above the blue site hoarding, seen from across the street under a grey sky.

The frame takes shape.

Steel columns and overhead beams frame a wide view across the concrete slab, with scaffolding, workers and crane trucks beyond.
Looking through the steel framework.
The upper steel frame rises above blue Johor site hoarding, with a crane behind it and a black pickup parked at the street.
The framework from the street.
An upward view through intersecting steel beams toward workers at height, with red crane arms and the back of a truck below.
An upward view of work on site.
A red truck-mounted crane stands beneath the steel frame, with long steel sections resting on the slab in the foreground.
Steel sections and equipment on site.

Work in motion.

A walk along the street frontage, past the steel frame and site hoarding.

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Inside the structure, moving past steel sections and crane trucks.

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Earlier construction.

Grey steel columns and beams behind blue site hoarding, with neighbouring shophouses beyond.
Steel columns and beams rise above the site hoarding.
A direct view into the open steel structure with a wrapped pallet of red bricks in front.
A view through the steel frame, with brick pallets in the foreground.
Workers guide a suspended steel member beside a red truck-mounted crane; a silver car stands in the foreground.
A crane supports a steel member as workers guide it into place.
Sunlight passes through the overhead steel frame above loose beams resting on the concrete slab.
Steel beams rest on the slab beneath the overhead frame.
Stacked steel sections and a horizontal truss inside the frame, beneath a clouded sunlit sky.
Stored steel sections and a truss sit within the open structure.
Looking up through steel beams and their bolted connections, with a worker on a scaffold.
Overhead beams and bolted connections define the steel frame.
A wide view of workers, scaffolding and steel members around the open structure.
Workers assemble the structure, with steel sections laid out beside the slab.