26 months of construction in 9 minutes (time-lapse)

Over two years in the making, a 9-minute #timelapse that covers 26 months of #construction of a 13-story senior living building as it emerges within central San Francisco. Starts on February 6, 2020 and ends on April 2, 2022.

The speed of the time-lapse varies in some portions. It is faster in the latter portions when most of the construction work is inside and the only work visible outside is the "fins" around the edges of the building and the street-level façade. It slows down a bit for the tower cranes going up and coming down, and for the famous "orange day" when wildfire smoke combined with fog to block the sun and turn the sky orange all day. Most, but not all, Sundays are omitted. Most, but not all, Saturdays are included.

Camera changes over the years are occasionally noticeable. In particular at the beginning you'll notice that I complete misjudged where the camera should be pointing as the tower crane went much higher than I anticipated and thus I had to repoint the camera a few times. Also the camera position and angle changes slightly over the years. I attempted to compensate for such changes, but couldn't completely eliminate their effects.

About two hours of video out of the middle of each of 668 days (when the sun is approximately at the same position) is sped up and all blended together. Some stabilization was done, adjustments were made for "keystoning" caused by the camera angle, and software was used to reduce the flicker somewhat, but of course with something like this there is always going to be flicker.

This is a fairly fast-paced video, so you'll probably see some pixelation when watching on YouTube, especially at lower resolutions and/or when lots of clouds flow by -- not much I can do about that.

As an alternative to the construction, you can also watch the cars come and go at the dealership next door (except for the second half of 2021 where there seems to be no inventory at all for some reason), lol.

If you're interested in watching this construction in more depth, I invite you to watch the over 100 videos on this channel that comprise the "Ⓢ Series". There are weekly time-lapses, as well as various other close-up and time-lapse videos covering all those months in more detail. If you binge-watch, be sure to take a break every now and then!

⏭️ 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀:

00:00 - Opening
00:11 - Excavation, tower crane base
00:31 - Tower crane goes up
01:43 - The building rises
03:12 - "Orange day"
03:44 - Building continues rising
04:48 - Tower crane removed
05:41 - "Fin", exterior, street-level façade, etc.
07:55 - Completed, closing

🎵 Music licensed from Audio Network. You're welcome to listen to your own playlist instead if you prefer (there's no narration or dialogue in the video). In chronological order:

How High Can We Climb (1357/6) Elfed Hayes
Smiley Banana 2 (1404/57) Tim Devine, Pete Masitti
Hammerhead (2679/1) Adam Drake, Gareth Johnson
Beard Trim (2821/5) Bob Bradley, Matt Parker, Steve Dymond

Correction: 04:48 - Tower crane removed in 2021, video mistakenly says 2020!

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[berndfreier]

Well done with great music.... And now I know why the building could have been built in 9 without caulking

[berndfreier]

Hello and good morning from Germany. I look forward to the latest episode. Thanks for your Hospital Construction work and time. Stay healthy. 001

[loupiscanis]

Thank you,
Still looking forward to your next project .

🐺

[macmikey]

still miss watching these on Sundays while drinking coffee. Thanks again for the hard work!

[staciedziedzic]

H!Happy to see you again! I hope that you are doing well! Take care!😁

[dieterfelden]

Sehr schönes Projekt. Habe ich von der ersten Folge bis zur letzten mit verfolgt. Freue mich schon auf ein neues Projekt von dir. Danke für die tolle Serie und die Aufnahmen. LG aus Deutschland. 😃👍

[sergejssergejevih]

Thank you, for such a wonderful reminder, about this construction... we have lived for 2 years, watching the floors strive up!!!

[constructionwatcher]

Thanks. What a great job of putting this together. It brings back memories of many pleasant hours watching it grow floor by floor.

[rainerdahm]

It's been a lot of fun following your videos over the past 26 months. I hope you find a new interesting object. Greetings from Germany.

[arievanderzouwen]

It was great fun watching every week. Greetings from The Netherlands

[tbarnette]

I've watched this from the very beginning man, well done.

[szafirmeru]

For the first year, I watched the progress from the construction every week on Sunday until breakfast ;)

[telesfjs]

Es excelente video. Lo disfruté mucho.
Thanks for your work.

[robertsullivan]

Curious to see the next big project, ( just a note, a local school group after watching several episodes of this project, built a model of it in Lego.) They are eager for the next video series, too.

[Losttoanyreason]

I watched a good portion 80% or so of this project before the YT agorism unsubscribed me😡 and I lost track of the project. I don't know why this popped back into my feed as it's still showing I'm unsubscribed but I'm glad it did. It was satisfing to finally see the building complete. 👍

[swp]

Great reminder. Not gonna lie -- the first 9 months were my favorite. Lots of good construction detail to see before the floor level rose above the camera. Can't wait until the next one! What an amazing job you did on this! Such commitment!

Just curious -- what was the reason for the image keystoning at 5:40?

[Alasdairryan]

Do you have any thing in the works for a new series? Surly someone close by is building a house or something :)

[near]

4:48 The crane was removed in january 2020? But of course, despite this little mistake, I´m happy to see a new time-lapse video from you. 🤗

[craigs]

Have you ever thought about doing a get together with the major contractors and workers? Bet there would be some great stories. Thanks for doing the project, enjoyed watching how it all went together.

[rjsc]

Muchos recuerdos de estos mas de dos años de videos domingueros....muchas anécdotas....recuerdo aquella en que los obreros se alzaron en armas y pusieron carteles de....SABEMOS QUE ESTAS AHÍ....!!!!..NO ESPIES MAS..☝🤣🤣🤣.!!! mirando hacia donde grababa la camara...cosa que no sirvió de la camara siguió grabando y subiendo los videos cada domingo... como que no fuera con de nuevo desde las islas canarias....España ..👋