Gorgeous lighting scheme
Got halfway through your post before you deleted it. 
yeah it already reads very 2010s. boring but eh, it’s fine.
on the other comments about sequencing: it’s definitely giving aggressive fast-tracked schedule. My only guess if they’re installing light-gauge partitions before facade is that it’s a unitized curtain wall (meaning prefabricated and shipped to site) and they have high confidence it’ll be up in a few days.
I wonder if they’re not using concrete cores at all. Some of these images show a lot of lateral bracing which could mean that the primary lateral system is steel braced frames rather than concrete cores… not that crazy for mid-rise construction. Usually part of the reason concrete cores go up first is because they’re needed to stiffen the structure. But if that’s not factoring in here, they might just be building the cores out of fire-rated shaft wall assemblies.
lol sorry I had meant to post it as a reply to your comment! corrected.
As soon as I sent my message, your reply popped up. Too funny.
I still think that it won’t age well. 
At least the skin can be ripped off and updated. …not that it will ever happen.
You’ve got to be somewhat of an expert is this field; you were dropping some science here with all of that industry-specific nomenclature. Good stuff though and I appreciate the insight into the nuts and bolts of such structures. Pun unintended! 
haha not an expert just an architect. we have to know a little about a lot!
the old state government buildings almost always had quaint ‘snack bars’ in them…often times tasty.. sandwich making, fruit cups etc. there was a program that let the visually impaired often do the cash registers… sensitive fingers and such, thats changed now i know. my preference would be to keep the corporate out of the state buildings. just a healthy snack bar.
The grill in the basement of the legislature has some of the best burgers downtown
Is it open to the public?
Yes, and the cafeteria. It’s best to go when legislature isn’t in session so it isn’t busy. You just have to go in the front and go through security with the metal detectors. They may ask for ID, I can’t recall, but then you can go there.
I think that the community needs a lunch meet up there! What do you think @dtraleigh ?
Ha! I just went there for the first time last week. We did the cafeteria and it was fine. Definitely a good value. I’d meet people for lunch there. 
I’m not interested in a but(t) first burger.
good looking burger, though…
it wouldn’t be used for advertising but for education. Like for example, showing an African migration with information about how may animals migrate each way, each year. No advertising
Haha in the snack bar in the legislature building they will make you pay if you want more than 1 ketchup packet.
Note to self, bring your own condiment packets!