I recently returned to Pattaya, had to go to England due to a death in the family.
Here are a few pictures by "ThaiBob" that I found on the ThaiVisa site. They were taken during the last week of January and show the progress to date.
The last two pictures were taken from VT7 on the 21st. floor. View Talay is now working on the roof (27th. floor), with "topping out" expected very soon.
I shall go take some pictures myself next week.
The VT7 completion date is still expected to be end 2009 or beginning of 2010.