NEW YORK | One World Trade Center | 1,776' Pinnacle / 1,373' Roof | 108 FLOORS

[theWatusi]

Just a friendly reminder that this thread is for the discussion of 1WTC, not the campaign for rebuilding what used to be there. If you'd like to discuss the twin towers alliance agenda, do it here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=172731

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[Aleks]

Haha, you posted at 9:11.

Great to see the outline! Finally!

[NYguy]

Update from morrongiello




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[NYguy]

Aram Sinnreich

[Puzzlecraft]

One thing I like about WTC1 is its elegant symmetry. A clean idea that I have not seen anywhere else, at least on the scale being built. Thinking about it, many of the buildings of the world which are considered beautiful are symmetric. The Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the Taj Mahal, the Great Pyramids, the U. S. Capital building. I'm not a prisoner of symmetry but I've very glad that such an important symbolic building is not being built in what I thought was exceedingly ugly, the crystaline and scaffolding Libeskind mode.

[car2004]

Originally Posted by NYguy

Aram Sinnreich

Now I can see what this building will look like, what a different from two weeks ago!

[theWatusi]

Looks like they are currently installing the "cap" on the diagonal column that was put up yesterday.

http://www.earthcam.com/clients/groundzero/groundZero.swf

[eMKay]

I was in NYC, figured I would take some pics, nothing new to add really since they are posted so often, but here they are anyway...

[aaron38]

Originally Posted by NYguy

Taken from wtc.com (Aug 15)

What's the tall building under construction in the background? I don't see a thread that matches that.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by aaron38

What's the tall building under construction in the background? I don't see a thread that matches that.

That's the new W at 123 Washington St...
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=93680

[eMKay]

Originally Posted by NYguy

That's the new W at 123 Washington St...
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=93680

I was wondering that myself while down there, it's very tall and I figured there was a thread on it.

[BStyles]

The North core looks a bit different. There's a cement truck parked right next to it, did they just pour concrete?

Edit: It now looks like the north crane is hauling something large, like a part of the forms.

[Lecom]

With those beams extruded, this should be the approximate building volume:


original image source: Aram Sinnreich

[CGII]

Wow I never really considered just how close this is to Vesey St. and how it'll crowd the Barclay-Vesey Building.

[uaarkson]

This building is going to be — gigantic.

[Puzzlecraft]

The right side of the sketch is too far into Vesey street. The vertical column stubs are about 10 feet to the left.

[Lecom]

Originally Posted by Puzzlecraft

The right side of the sketch is too far into Vesey street. The vertical column stubs are about 10 feet to the left.

You're correct. I realized that only after I was finished but didn't feel like redoing the whole thing

[uaarkson]

Someone bumped the earthcam. =\

http://www.earthcam.com/clients/groundzero/groundZero.swf

[BStyles]

Actually it rotates every once in a while, sometimes to focus on 1WTC.

It rotated in my favor though. Here's a diagram(very small but in vibrant colors) of the next few months work.

-Red stands for the 24 perimeter columns being placed. Further up, maybe they will be the same color.
-Yellow stands for the crossbeams that ends the lobby and starts the mechanical floor
-White is the outline of the building.
-Green is the super large trusses shrouded in the base's glass clad curtain wall. They come in sections, because of obvious reasons. I think the Manitowoc has a high enough boom for putting those in.

*There's a truck delivering the smaller crossbeam for in between the diagonal columns right now.

[uaarkson]

Looks like it's back to normal.