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NYguy · #**5581** Posted **Aug 23, 2009, 1:51 PM**

Some fun with google earth and the WTC...some of the details and new towers are missing, but still a good feel...

theWatusi · #**5582** Posted **Aug 23, 2009, 2:30 PM**

cool stuff

2-TOWERS · #**5583** Posted **Aug 23, 2009, 3:50 PM**

its good to see the correct height of #2 WTC.. other pics had it alot shorter..

BStyles · #**5584** Posted **Aug 23, 2009, 5:25 PM**

Oh wow, they even got Goldman Sachs in there. They should've got it with it's cladding done.

Hey NYguy, can you get a harbor view and Jersey City View of it?

Oddly enough, the PAC is still at the bottom of the site where it should be. I'm really starting to think that it's removal was just like that report about 1WTC's completion date in 2018.

All in favor of calling it 6 WTC? Just to complete the complex again.

Stu · #**5585** Posted **Aug 23, 2009, 8:56 PM**

I kind of like the simplicity of the spire on 1 WTC in those pics. It's a fairly simplistic design for a skyscraper, I think a spire with modest details would actually suit it.

BStyles · #**5586** Posted **Aug 23, 2009, 10:51 PM**

That's not actually what the spire is going to look like. The picture on page 279 is actually the spire.

Stu · #**5587** Posted **Aug 23, 2009, 11:01 PM**

I am aware of that, noob.

scalziand · #**5588** Posted **Aug 24, 2009, 2:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by BStyles

Oh wow, they even got Goldman Sachs in there. They should've got it with it's cladding done.

Hey NYguy, can you get a harbor view and Jersey City View of it?

This good enough for ya?

and

I have no clue where that tall ship came from.

I also didn't realize that the ESB would be visible form this view. Nicely framed, isn't it? However, 56 Leonard and WTC5 should eventually obscure that view.

theWatusi · #**5589** Posted **Aug 24, 2009, 1:31 PM**

The crawler crane has a big piece of steel...it's not a column, so we'll have to wait and see what it is.

Also, concrete pour going on at the North core.

uakoops · #**5590** Posted **Aug 24, 2009, 2:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by theWatusi

The crawler crane has a big piece of steel...it's not a column, so we'll have to wait and see what it is.

Also, concrete pour going on at the North core.

It's the big 3-headed connector that goes on top of the column that was put up on Friday. Zen, how much does that connector piece weigh?

vandelay · #**5591** Posted **Aug 24, 2009, 3:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by scalziand

I have no clue where that tall ship came from.

That isn't just any tall ship, it's the Half Moon, the sloop Hudson sailed when he "discovered" the river.

Also, while they're putting up that connector, it looks like the north east side of the site is getting a major pour, the concrete looks to be street level now.

JDRCRASH · #**5592** Posted **Aug 24, 2009, 3:40 PM**

The Google Earth model is a little too far to the right at Church.

uakoops · #**5593** Posted **Aug 24, 2009, 4:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by vandelay

That isn't just any tall ship, it's the Half Moon, the sloop Hudson sailed when he "discovered" the river.

Also, while they're putting up that connector, it looks like the north east side of the site is getting a major pour, the concrete looks to be street level now.

I think that's actually 1 level below the street.

theWatusi · #**5594** Posted **Aug 24, 2009, 4:45 PM**

Looks like there is another column up on the South side.

Puzzlecraft · #**5595** Posted **Aug 24, 2009, 5:01 PM**

Over the weekend, the heavy yellowish vertical steel brackets which hold the forms that were used for the successive N. Core concrete pours were removed. When this happened at the S. Core earlier this year, the core steel started going up within three weeks.

J_M_Tungsten · #**5596** Posted **Aug 24, 2009, 5:37 PM**

I love how fast this project is moving now, my pics from 5 days ago aren't even worth posting now!! Thats what I get for waiting.

Also does anyone know what the building just south of WTC7 is on the google earth renderings? Part of the Transit hub?

Zensteeldude · #**5597** Posted **Aug 24, 2009, 5:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by uakoops

It's the big 3-headed connector that goes on top of the column that was put up on Friday. Zen, how much does that connector piece weigh?

I think I remember doing a calculation for it last year and came up with 23 tons. Almost the whole thing is made up of 6 inch thick plate.

vandelay · #**5598** Posted **Aug 24, 2009, 6:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by J_M_Tungsten

Also does anyone know what the building just south of WTC7 is on the google earth renderings? Part of the Transit hub?

It's the proposed Snohetta designed WTC visitors center, not sure what the status of it is.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/20/arts/design/20free.html?pagewanted=all

CGII · #**5599** Posted **Aug 24, 2009, 7:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by vandelay

It's the proposed Snohetta designed WTC visitors center, not sure what the status of it is.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/20/arts/design/20free.html?pagewanted=all

That design is long scrapped. It looks like this, now:

national911memorial.org

Aleks · #**5600** Posted **Aug 24, 2009, 7:12 PM**

I think he means that small square building next to the Freedom Tower. What will be in that lot by the way? Will they make it into a plaza or build something on top?