Where once there had been but a fuzzy framed outline, a mighty physical rampart now stood resolute against the elements.

But cladding a structure of such magnitude is an inherently exposed endeavour. As the liner team initiated installation of the roof’s weathertight membrane, they found themselves subject to the fickle temper of the spring winds. On days when the wind gusted above the safety limit, all work at height was necessarily suspended.

The distillery section’s walls gradually disappeared beneath the resilient skin, their seams sealed against moisture’s intrusion. Finally, as April surrendered to May’s denouement, the liner sheet on the eastern elevation was completed.

Though weeks of arduous enclosing still remained, this initial taming of the structural Titan marked a symbolic inflection point. No longer was this merely an exposed arrangement of inert steel, it had begun to assume the visage of a building.