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[DURKEY427]

I was having a difficult time figuring out from what angle this photo was taken. I finally realized it when I saw the cranes for 3wtc sticking out in the lower rh part of the photo. Normally - I'm use to seeing 5wtc in the foreground of 4wtc when the shot is taken from the south of wtc complex. interesting angle... :tup:

Man does 7wtc look small in this photo...

Ummm 5 wtc?

[NYC GUY]

I think he means where 5 wtc will be in the future.

[CarlosV]

I was having a difficult time figuring out from what angle this photo was taken. I finally realized it when I saw the cranes for 3wtc sticking out in the lower rh part of the photo. Normally - I'm use to seeing 5wtc in the foreground of 4wtc when the shot is taken from the south of wtc complex. interesting angle... :tup:

Man does 7wtc look small in this photo...

This photo was taken most likely from Greenwich street and Rector street towards the Battery.



more steel going up as we speak...:yes:

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[UTEPman]

On topic though, that above pic of the WTC complex (with WTC5 in the back) is really cool. I've seen a bunch of pics with different angles, but none like that. :tup:

[jd3189]

Cranes are taller.....

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I'm guessing that those cranes are now,at the least, in the same level of the Sears Tower height-wise. Hopefully, this is the starting point of many of NYC's future tallest to succeed. If Chicago doesn't come up with something soon, we always got Manhattan.

[PMadFlyer]

I'm working on a model of the base... but I made a bit of a stupid mistake when I made the steel last year.:duh: I used the steel that will support the base cladding for scale when I modeled the steel, knowing the elevation of the 20th and 1st floor. It turns out that I used a 13'9 1/2 spacing instead of the actual 13'4. Sounds like no biggie, but I'll have to adjust all of the angles in the base steel now, and the four sides aren't the same below the 20th floor.

[sw5710]

I'm guessing that those cranes are now,at the least, in the same level of the Sears Tower height-wise. Hopefully, this is the starting point of many of NYC's future tallest to succeed. If Chicago doesn't come up with something soon, we always got Manhattan.

See the top of the red support structures for the cranes. They are near 1400' up now. The tops of the cranes extended are near the mid 1600s

[Guiltyspark]

On topic though, that above pic of the WTC complex (with WTC5 in the back) is really cool. I've seen a bunch of pics with different angles, but none like that. :tup:

That is 7WTC. 5WTC has not been built yet.

[bigreach]

So 5WTC isn't even built yet?? I thought that it was completed,, No Idea so that is 7 that's behind them?

[chris123678]

So 5WTC isn't even built yet?? I thought that it was completed,, No Idea so that is 7 that's behind them?

5 world trade center isn't built. The only towers being built at the moment is Tower 1 and 4. Tower 2 and 3 are going on hold, and no plans for tower 5.

[NewYorkDominates]

Fun fact from Madagascar 3:
The Manhattan skyline originally didn’t have the new World Trade Center—a DreamWorker from New York City who had just been down to that area was awestruck by the partially completed building and asked that it be put in to show the amazing architecture.

[JZeig1]

Ummm 5 wtc?

To clearify my point - here's a photo taken, for the most part, from the same angle as the above photo. Both shots are taken from a camera facing north from the southern part of the complex. You can clearly see the difference in angle and the change in the site.
I'm use to seeing the pic taken with the empty lot where the bank once stood. The above pic is taken further back behind buildings to the south. The pic below was probably taken from the slinder white building in the above pic. The newer photo kinda distorts the depth and scale of the buidings.
Not to bring Five WTC into this page, but there's a pit there now. Not sure if it's been fill yet.


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[jd3189]

:previous: Back when these towers were babies. Good times.:tup:

[DURKEY427]

Right i understand now :tup: Sorry for all the confusion.

[CarlosV]

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[mat97]

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:omg:Beautiful morning!! :hi:

[NYguy]

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[PMadFlyer]

:previous: I wonder what they are doing with the counterweights, It doesn't look like they are adding or removing them from the cranes.

[2-TOWERS]

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Simply Elegant great shot my man :tup: just think of that shot with all the glass in place

[NYguy]

I'm sure everyone remembers Childs twisting form of the tower, and the glass base that came with it...


http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/145636074/large.jpg



http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/145636076/original.jpg



But I don't recall seeing these renderings of that base, which are well done...


http://massforma.com/arch/freedom-tower/

Freedom Tower


Alfred Huang was the original member of the World Trade center design team responsible for the project’s early responses to the masterplan as well as all public areas of the project, including below-grade retail, lobbies, exterior plazas and landscaping, observation deck and restaurant lobbies. He also pioneered the implementation of Building Information Modeling (BIM) for project design and delivery. The project challenged the design software of the time. Many challenges and lessons from the project informed the development of BIM software tool for large-scale projects.

The new World Trade Center Freedom Tower was designed to be the most important symbol of New York City, the 1,776 foot-tall (540 meters) as it strives to restore the skyline and draw inspiration from the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge and the sweeping twist fo the Statue of Liberty.

The design calls for 70 commerical stories with 2.6 million square feet (241,500 square meters) of office space with underground connection to retail and regional transit hubs. Above the offices is a broadcasting center, observation deck, and restaurant. Glass ceilings of the restaurant will look up at 400 feet (122 meters) of weaving cable-net superstructure housing wind turbines that will generate 20% of the building’s electricity. A 276-foot (85 meters) spire will top off the tower as a beacon of the city. The tower’s structural diagrid extends down the asymmetrical form, generating the weaving diamond-shaped curtain walls that clad the twisting east and west facades. At the base, the diagrids form a monumental arcade around the glazed cable-net lobby as it opens to the street.

Alfred Huang designed the project from 2003 to 2005 while employed with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP.


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[NewYorkDominates]

^It looks like the old WTC lobby,but the tower is hideous.

[hunser]

^ Interesting info...

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[Dac150]

An open lobby such as that would've been very nice - my only critique of the final design is the base, though I'll hold my final judgements until it's all said and done.

Safety does come first.

[Chibears85]

Apparently, Wired NY members are saying that base cladding has started behind the black tarp and canvas.

[chris123678]

Here's a video about Larry Silverstine and the Trade Center.

Makes me Hope they get tenants to make his vision come true.

http://vimeo.com/47604030#

[jd3189]

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I wish they could implement a part of this design into the base. It would make it even more reminiscent of the tridents of the Twins, thus replacing what was there. Hopefully this design is used in another future NYC building.

[-Filipe-]

I'm sure everyone remembers Childs twisting form of the tower, and the glass base that came with it...


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i dont think thats look too bad from that angle lol, i wish the height of this was on what were getting now :D

[NYC GUY]

I actually would've liked the design if it the actual building was the whole height and not half a building with a metal thing on it.

[-Filipe-]

I actually would've liked the design if it the actual building was the whole height and not half a building with a metal thing on it.

i agree, i wish even the 1wtc was 1776 roof height with no spire >.> cant wait for the day nyc will get something about 1500 feet roof height :D

[Enigmatism415]

An open lobby such as that would've been very nice - my only critique of the final design is the base, though I'll hold my final judgements until it's all said and done.

Safety does come first.

It's sad to see aesthetics bow to fear.

[mheadroom]

Apparently, Wired NY members are saying that base cladding has started behind the black tarp and canvas.

Drove past the tower yesterday. They're definately installing something but I didn't see glass.

[Chibears85]

Drove past the tower yesterday. They're definately installing something but I didn't see glass.
It doesnt seem like glass at all. However glass could be under it... IDK what is going on.
http://i.imgur.com/fvohy.png

[NewYorkDominates]

Shouldn't the glass be in front of the black netting?

[PMadFlyer]

:previous: No, with the exception of the glass "fins" it will be flat with the regular office window cladding. The black netting is over scaffolding like the black netting near the top of the tower. There is enough space between the scaffolding and the structure to install the panels. They might be using tarps to protect sensitive parts of the LED back-lighting system, but we'll just have to wait and see.

[CarlosV]

Shopping in Soho this morning :rolleyes:

from Broadway and Houston...

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scratching the surface....

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[Dac150]

Making it's presence be known . . great site!

[NewYorkDominates]

Saw the special advance screening of "Iron Men-4WTC Rebuilding" on an exclusive channel on Directv,an episode of the Rebuilding which is to debut on The Weather Channel on August 30,2012,and have to say it was amazing.Many aerial shots from 4WTC,many shots of 1WTC at its current state(meaning the show was filmed during July and August).Great show guys.Don't forget to watch it on the Weather Channel on the 30th of August.

[Jaystang5]

can anyone get a shot from the same spot that Jules Naudet filmed the plane crashing into the North tower?

[PZelda]

I have a shot of that from my NYC visit in June. But perhaps someone else can take a more current picture. Jules was at the intersection of Church and Lispenard Streets, which is the exact spot I took this picture.

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[kpdrummer82]

I'm sure everyone remembers Childs twisting form of the tower, and the glass base that came with it...


http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/145636074/large.jpg



http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/145636076/original.jpg



But I don't recall seeing these renderings of that base, which are well done...


http://massforma.com/arch/freedom-tower/

Freedom Tower





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Okay, please please please please please. This tower is sooooooo close to finishing and we haven't had a comment on here about that shitty Childs design in SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO long, so pleaseeeeee. Just wait till it's over to talk about that piece of garbage they called a building.

[STR]

^Why not? Those are some rare renders of a pretty cool concept for a lobby. Honestly, that lobby is far better than what's been built.

Also, if you didn't want to talk about the Libeskind/Childs design, you probably should not have block quoted ALL of the renders.

[NYC GUY]

I remember seeing a commercial years ago for one of those commemorative coins for 9/11. It had the twin towers on one side and the Freedom tower (old design) on the other.
http://bullionoutlook.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Freedom-Tower-Silver-Dollar.jpg
http://www.galaide.org/old_weblog/image/FreedomDollar.jpg
http://www.designscomputed.com/coins/ft_1_2009_9999_rev.jpg

[NewYorkDominates]

It's definitely going to be pretty hard to do an imprint of the new WTC complex on coins.

I found this in SSC and decided to repost here:
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[mat97]

It doesnt seem like glass at all. However glass could be under it... IDK what is going on.
http://i.imgur.com/fvohy.png

I think that is concrete

[jd3189]

I found this in SSC and decided to repost here:
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drken10003


Stand Tall, NYC. Stand Tall. :tup:

[NYguy]

Also, if you didn't want to talk about the Libeskind/Childs design, you probably should not have block quoted ALL of the renders.

LOL, or even responded to it. I think the design for that base was better than anything we have now.



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[NYGrail]

Anybody else see the awesome helicopter night shots of the WTC site during the Jets/Panthers game last night? It looked really cool in HD.

[mat97]

Why the glass is very slower and slower than before?????:whatthefuck::pissed::pissed::hell:

[hunser]

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Oh dear Lord... what a sight. :slob: That shot alone shows about 20 towers over 700' in Downtown alone! Now you get a sense how massive 1WTC really is.

[mat97]

New glass on est facade:cheers::banana:

[RockMont]

New glass on est facade:cheers::banana:

I think you just answered your own question, dude.

[mat97]

I think you just answered your own question, dude.

:D:D:tup:

[GeorgiaBoy24]

I remember seeing a commercial years ago for one of those commemorative coins for 9/11. It had the twin towers on one side and the Freedom tower (old design) on the other.
http://bullionoutlook.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Freedom-Tower-Silver-Dollar.jpg
http://www.galaide.org/old_weblog/image/FreedomDollar.jpg
http://www.designscomputed.com/coins/ft_1_2009_9999_rev.jpg
I've never seen that design on the 2009 coin before. Looks pretty sweet! Were they ever considering that for tower one? (Without the top empty of course :rolleyes: )

[Kevin Scott Koepke]

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[CarlosV]

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[kpdrummer82]

^^is that edited?

[Duck From NY]

^^is that edited?

Carlos reports to us from the Matrix, that's why his pictures are tinted Green.

[NYC GUY]

@GeorgiaBoy24
No simple error I guess.

[mat97]

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:omg:No visible update but beautiful pic Carlos!!:tup:

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looks amazing! never seen the clouds that low before.. this is a rare shot..

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[NYguy]

^ Beautiful shots...


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[kpdrummer82]

http://awesomescreenshot.com/01eedh712 This is from earthcam, you can clearly see some cladding/glass or what ever it is that they are putting on the base, being put up.

[Surrealplaces]

:previous: Wow, some really stunning shots of the tower...and NYC! I love this thread.

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[Modulair]

the tower seems to have topped out, no ?

I'm sorry , I have not followed the progress of the tower since the end of july..

[NYC GUY]

Pretty much it looks like theres like one or two spandrel beams left to put in.

[Fishman92]

the tower seems to have topped out, no ?

I'm sorry , I have not followed the progress of the tower since the end of july..

Why don't you just read through the pages rather than asking the same question so many others have?

[nyarch21]

Why don't you just read through the pages rather than asking the same question so many others have?

Maybe they did and couldn't find it? I don't seem to find b*tching about it to be any less annoying.
How many spandrel beams can be put up a day? How many more are left? 4?

[rack776]

With the risk of sounding like a dumb troll.....can anyone point me to a page in this 1340 page long thread about how they actually jump the cranes, I looked for 2 days over lunch to find out how they do it and cannot find it, honest! :redface:

[NewYorkDominates]

:previous:

Perched above New York City’s skyline, two tower cranes are piecing together the new One World Trade Center, which just became the city’s tallest skyscraper. How do those cranes get up there?

By using their own hoisting power to make themselves taller. While that’s the most common method, there are actually three ways: 1) the external climbing method, in which the crane—the arm plus its tower—expands upward along the outside of the building, 2) the internal climbing method, in which the crane builds a few floors at a time from the inside and then “jumps” to a higher spot, and 3) the “skycrane” method of airlifting in a crane on a helicopter. (Engineers at 1 WTC are using both of the first two methods.)

In the external climbing method, the base of the crane is fixed in a concrete slab in the ground, and the crane tower is erected beside the building using smaller, mobile cranes. Once the building is about 180 feet tall (some 15 stories), the crane is fastened to the building with steel collars, and new segments are inserted into the crane’s backbone. To add segments to itself, the crane has a special climbing section—a big metal sheath that scales the outside of the crane tower. This sheath raises the arm above the last vertebra and temporarily supports it, then takes in a new tower segment from the arm. The sheath holds that segment in place while workers bolt it in. They repeat this process every 180 feet or so: The crane constructs the building, then it’s fastened to the building, then it receives new vertebrae to grow taller.

The second way is the internal climbing method. The crane stands inside the center of the building, in a kind of makeshift courtyard, where it constructs the skyscraper around itself about a hundred feet at a time. A hydraulic cylinder at the crane’s base elevates it through the hollow middle of the building to a higher floor. Then workers slide steel beams underneath the crane to give it a sturdy new footing, and the crane begins building again.

The third method is to have a heavy-lift helicopter (or “skycrane”) fly the crane to the top of the construction site. This must be done piece by piece—just a single segment of a crane’s tower can weigh between 3,000 and 20,000 pounds. However, because of the cost, and because flying a load-bearing helicopter over a populated area is logistically very difficult, this method is the most rare, used only a few times a year nationwide.

Bonus Explainer: How do cranes get back down? Often by constructing the very gallows that will destroy them. To disassemble themselves, tower cranes construct derricks on the rooftop of the finished project. (Derricks are tower cranes’ simpler great-granddaddy.) These derricks then help dismantle the tower cranes, and—in the case of internal climbers—lower their parts one by one to the ground using extremely long cables. Once the parts reach the ground, they’re taken back to the rental service on flatbed trucks, then the workers take apart the derricks. Most of the derricks’ parts can just take the construction elevator. (External climbers, however, can jack themselves all the way back down.)
http://mobile.slate.com/articles/life/explainer/2012/05/tower_crane_building_one_world_trade_center_how_do_cranes_get_on_top_of_skyscrapers_.html

Is this what you were looking for?

[rack776]

:previous:


http://mobile.slate.com/articles/life/explainer/2012/05/tower_crane_building_one_world_trade_center_how_do_cranes_get_on_top_of_skyscrapers_.html

Is this what you were looking for?

Yup! Thanks Man!:tup:

[mat97]

New row of glass:banana:84th floor

[NYC GUY]

Cranes looked like they haven't moved today.

[eennyc]

^ Beautiful shots...


Images By Madeline (http://www.flickr.com/photos/23956233@N04/7864778046/sizes/l/in/photostream/)

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Michael C Dunne (http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelcdunne/7878252584/sizes/l/in/photostream/)

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lazerv (http://www.flickr.com/photos/86027886@N06/7879930504/sizes/l/in/photostream/)

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http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8281/7879930504_139bfc4df1_h.jpg

Where is the place with the rockets ????

[NewYorkDominates]

Hi guys,

I post you pictures I have taken during my trip in New-York on Sunday, August 12 2012. Enjoy



http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/475526DSC0066.jpg

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/519181DSC00662.jpg

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/636013DSC0070.jpg

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/818681DSC0073.jpg

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/139566DSC0119.jpg

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http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/504987modif.jpg

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/401867modif2.jpg

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/430364photo.jpg
From 4WTC thread at SSC

[Noll]

Where is the place with the rockets ????

I hate to go off topic, but was it really necessary to quote ALL of the pictures?

[Chibears85]

Since July, four more rows of glass (Including the new row today) was added to 1WTC.
Based on this info:

81-84= August
85-88= Septmeber
89-92= October
93-96= November
97-100= December
101-104= January, 2013

That said, The glass should be completed in January 2013.

Correct me if the new row of glass is not the 84th floor.

[hunser]

I was bored... enjoy:

http://s14.directupload.net/images/120828/jpir9ngm.jpg

Original pic by davideglasgow (http://www.flickr.com/photos/18188939@N06/7869562306/sizes/h/in/photostream/)

[NewYorkDominates]

^That's why Lower Manhattan>Midtown Manhattan

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7258/7877089246_5cfa5e26c1_z.jpg
http://m.flickr.com/photos/31024295@N06/7877089246/


Wall Street>42nd St.>57th St.>6th Avenue

[RockMont]

Since July, four more rows of glass (Including the new row today) was added to 1WTC.
Based on this info:

81-84= August
85-88= Septmeber
89-92= October
93-96= November
97-100= December
101-104= January, 2013

That said, The glass should be completed in January 2013.

Correct me if the new row of glass is not the 84th floor.

Thank you for this info.

[Downburst]

NYGuy, I've never seen the tapering effect in 1 WTC so pronounced until you posted those photos. It's absolutely gorgeous from afar in those shots. If only the different facets/triangles of the building were visible from farther away.

[CarlosV]

Where is the place with the rockets ????

:yuck: Try not to quote with all the pics....and.....


The place with all the rockets is New York Hall of Science! located in Flushing Meadow-Corona Park in Queens.

Read more here....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Hall_of_Science


now..... :yes:


http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8443/7882401558_2f0731aff5_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceva321/7882401558/)
DSC_4938 copy (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceva321/7882401558/) by Ceva321 (http://www.flickr.com/people/ceva321/), on Flickr

[hunser]

I was bored... enjoy:

http://s14.directupload.net/images/120828/jpir9ngm.jpg

Original pic by davideglasgow (http://www.flickr.com/photos/18188939@N06/7869562306/sizes/h/in/photostream/)

Btw 123 Washington is 192m tall.

^That's why Lower Manhattan>Midtown Manhattan


Wall Street>42nd St.>57th St.>6th Avenue

Aesthetically, yes. But even with the new WTC Midtown takes the cake when it comes to pure numbers (# supertalls, skyscrapers, density, ...).

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8435/7880728220_fe90306355_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/timdrivas/7880728220/)
Downtown / WTC (http://www.flickr.com/photos/timdrivas/7880728220/) von Tim Drivas (http://www.flickr.com/people/timdrivas/) auf Flickr

[NewYorkDominates]

^True.

Oh dear Lord... what a sight. That shot alone shows about 20 towers over 700' in Downtown alone! Now you get a sense how massive 1WTC really is.
I thought Lower Manhattan was just approaching 15?Wow

[DURKEY427]

Does anyone think that 7 wtc stands out alot more with this tower than the old one did with the twins.

[jd3189]

:previous: Yep, but only for a period of before the other towers rise.

[hunser]

^True.


I thought Lower Manhattan was just approaching 15?Wow

Yeah, I should have said in the 700ft range. About 20 towers are ~656ft+ (200m+).

[NYGrail]

Nice new CNN article on 1WTC:
http://money.cnn.com/gallery/news/companies/2012/08/28/world-trade-center-construction.fortune/index.html

[meh_cd]

Does anyone think that 7 wtc stands out alot more with this tower than the old one did with the twins.

Both Tower 7 and Goldman Sachs are nearly 200 feet taller than original 7 WTC. That is part of the reason that the new Tower One appears shorter than the twins.

[NewYorkDominates]

^I think he means 7WTC makes a better mark with 1WTC than the old 7WTC did with the Twins.I do agree on that part.On cloudy days especially,is when both the WTC and WFC look awesome,and very much look like if they were all meant to be together.

Someone needs to post this hahaha...http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/timdrivas/7877719652/.I can't do it since I have a phone,and can't seem to copy and paste pictures from Flickr onto my phone.Also this one http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/timdrivas/7883218982/

Thanks.

Space Invaders!

[hunser]

^I think he means 7WTC makes a better mark with 1WTC than the old 7WTC did with the Twins.I do agree on that part.On cloudy days,especially,is when both the WTC and WFC look awesome,and very much look like if they were all meant to be together.

Someone needs to post this hahaha...http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/timdrivas/7877719652/.I can't do it since I have a phone,and can't seem to copy and paste pictures from Flickr onto my phone.

Space Invaders!

Yeah I've seen it... lol. See my last post- pic from the same guy. I guess someone doesn't like GS very much. :D

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7121/7877719652_86ab03ce99_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/timdrivas/7877719652/)
When You See It... (http://www.flickr.com/photos/timdrivas/7877719652/) von Tim Drivas (http://www.flickr.com/people/timdrivas/) auf Flickr

[CarlosV]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8439/7883704392_ccd690f581_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceva321/7883704392/)
DSC_4942 copy (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceva321/7883704392/) by Ceva321 (http://www.flickr.com/people/ceva321/), on Flickr


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http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8450/7883794768_d42a4796be_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceva321/7883794768/)
Untitled_Panorama1 copy (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceva321/7883794768/) by Ceva321 (http://www.flickr.com/people/ceva321/), on Flickr

[NYC GUY]

Looks like wasn't much progress today other than glass.

[meh_cd]

^I think he means 7WTC makes a better mark with 1WTC than the old 7WTC did with the Twins.I do agree on that part.On cloudy days especially,is when both the WTC and WFC look awesome,and very much look like if they were all meant to be together.


Yes, and that makes perfect sense given the increase in height over the old tower.

[599GTO]

^That's why Lower Manhattan>Midtown Manhattan

Wall Street>42nd St.>57th St.>6th Avenue


Better in what way? There is nothing on Wall Street and it's small. All those streets listed above are better and livelier.

Do you mean aesthetically? If so, no. In Midtown, 5th Avenue is far more beautiful than Wall Street (or any of those other streets).

[599GTO]

The tapering effect of this building is so prominent now. Was driving into Manhattan from JFK and the building looks so tapered and nice from afar.

[Yankee fan for life]

Whats up with the horrible diagram of 1 wtc on skyscraper page forum entrance ?

[CarlosV]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8456/7886545752_e454891472_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceva321/7886545752/)
DSC_4968 copy (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceva321/7886545752/) by Ceva321 (http://www.flickr.com/people/ceva321/), on Flickr

[mheadroom]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8456/7886545752_e454891472_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceva321/7886545752/)
DSC_4968 copy (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceva321/7886545752/) by Ceva321 (http://www.flickr.com/people/ceva321/), on Flickr

Nice shot of Superman.

[MadGnome]

Is that as high as the cranes will go? They still don't look nearly tall enough to handle the mast unless they're going to use some sort of top down construction like the Burj Dubai did and jack it up as they assemble it.