The spindly yellow crane that has been dangling over the top of Woodbranch Investment’s Market Square Tower is coming down in pieces this afternoon, notes a downtown reader. The shot above shows the scene from the corner of Prairie and Travis streets, with the top edge of the still-standing-by-court-order former Houston Chronicle building sticking in from the left.

The 463-unit tower has been leasing spaces since April, with plans to open this fall. There’s still work to do on the building before then, though the support for the glass-bottom cantilevered rooftop pool that will hang some 500 feet above Preston looks to be in place. Here’s Jackson & Ryan’s rendering of what the space will look like once the water has been added:

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And here’s the tower and crane photobombing last week’s shot of Hines’s Aris Market Square tower, currently making its way up into the airspace on the other side of Market Square:

Images: ‏tribalidentity (top 2); Jackson & Ryan (rendering); Bob Russell (bottom)

Coming Down Downtown