Making the Cutout

Comcast Center Cutout

I walked past the Comcast Center last evening around 7pm. I couldn’t stop staring at the “Cutout,” which doesn’t show very well in this shot, but is the coolest architectural feature I’ve seen in a long while. It’s all glass, and it looks like there are offices and conference rooms slotted in there.

And it made me think: In Philly, you know that you’ve really made it when you get to the Cutout. The Cutout is just badass. Philly wiz-wit-we-boo-Santa kinda of badass.

Posted on August 29, 2007
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  • i was just above the cutout. no idea what it looks like up close.
  • Moni, from your pictures your have some beautiful things and real nature there. I think I would like that too...but a lot is happening in Philly right now, so that makes it fun.
  • Very cool! You don't see things like that in Spokane :P
  • Sounds like there should be a New Year's Eve party in Bill's new office.
  • Bill, you're a Cutout Man if there ever was one. Great description of the place...Play-Doh, what a cool description of how that's created. I'll look forward to a tour of your office when you move in.
  • Bill Strahan
    Imagine that the building was made of Play do (dough?) and you took a cube and pressed it into one side. That's what is left. Those floors have conference space and executive offices. It's way cool.

    My office will be in the northeast corner of the 34th floor as of about January 1, 2008. I can't wait.
  • The Cutout is just a glassed-in architectural elements. I wish I'd taken a better picture. Basically, that hole up there is all glass, and there are bigtime offices and conference rooms that face the interior of the Cutout plus overlook South Philly. My sense, having not been up there (maybe Albert could fill us in), is that there are floor-to-ceiling windows and super cool offices there....you can be the king of the world up there...or at least the King of Philly (which is pretty dang close).
  • It's a pretty good picture. The cut out is wild.
  • I don't get it. Why are they leaving a "Cutout"? Is that part of the architectural detail?
  • What is it exactly?
  • Jessica, I'll bet you'll make a better pic, too. I took this one with my iPhone, which has been my camera of convenience lately. It's very limited, but great for snaps but it didn't show the glass in the Cutout.
  • Pretty photo! I'll have to walk by to see the cutout with my own eyes.
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