Five years in the making, a 5½minute #timelapse that covers 4 years and 8 months of #construction of a new hospital as it emerges within the central San Francisco skyline. Followed by a few shots of the hospital finally opening to the public early on a dark, rainy morning, and then the timelapse ends a week later. Starts on June 30, 2014 and ends on March 9, 2019.

The speed of the timelapse varies in some portions. In particular it is faster in the latter portions when most of the construction work is inside and the only work visible outside is the lobby/main entrance and sidewalk and street work. It slows down a bit for the tower cranes going up and coming down. Most, but not all, Sundays are omitted. Most, but not all Saturdays are included.

Camera changes over the years may be noticeable to the astute viewer. For example, in mid2015 the camera dies and is replaced with one with a higher resolution, and in mid2016 the camera is changed to capture a wider angle. 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 1,431 days (when the sun is approximately at the same position) is sped up and all blended together. Various software was used to stabilize (along with some manual stabilization help), and to remove the fisheye of the wide angle view, and also to reduce the flicker somewhat, but of course with something like this there is always going to be flicker.

This is a fairly fastpaced 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.

If you're interested in watching this construction in more depth, I invite you to watch the approximately 280 videos in the "Ⓗ series" of weekly timelapseswithcloseups videos on this channel. There are weekly timelapses, as well as various other closeup and timelapse videos covering all those years in more detail. If you bingewatch, be sure to take a break every now and then!

Music licensed from Audio Network:
"Dead End Road" (ANW1559/5) Terry DevineKing
"Ride The Wave" (ANW2679/2) Gareth Johnson, Adam Drake
"Voodoo Highway" (ANW2550/4) Adam Drake, Gareth Johnson

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