NEW YORK | One World Trade Center | 1,776' Pinnacle / 1,373' Roof | 108 FLOORS - Page 478

NOPA · #**9541** Posted **Aug 21, 2010, 10:38 PM**

Wow! Haven't been here (or in The City) for a few weeks. This thing is cruising on up!

hunser · #**9542** Posted **Aug 22, 2010, 11:41 AM**

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Originally Posted by NOPA

Wow! Haven't been here (or in The City) for a few weeks. This thing is cruising on up!

yeah me too. 400ft and rising!

Dac150 · #**9543** Posted **Aug 22, 2010, 3:29 PM**

The pace of construction as of late has just been outstanding. The whole site has wonderful momentum.

NYguy · #**9544** Posted **Aug 22, 2010, 3:31 PM**

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Couple of clips...

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Draegen · #**9545** Posted **Aug 22, 2010, 5:30 PM**

This thing has alot of elevators and stairs on the side

Loslocos · #**9546** Posted **Aug 23, 2010, 3:57 AM**

What on earth is that? Can't be part of the core steel as it's covered.

NYGuy

Anyone?

winlinmac001 · #**9547** Posted **Aug 23, 2010, 4:50 AM**

Hey, can you please reupload the pictures. The links appear to be dead.
BTW- The progress is awesome!

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Originally Posted by CalibratedZeus

From this afternoon, originals re-sized down to 1024x768.

2, 3, 4, and 5 are from the World Center Hotel's top floor eatery. May I say well worth bribing the bellman to let you up the elevator

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Draegen · #**9548** Posted **Aug 23, 2010, 7:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by Loslocos

What on earth is that? Can't be part of the core steel as it's covered.

NYGuy

Anyone?

Looks like one of the Turrets

winlinmac001 · #**9549** Posted **Aug 23, 2010, 4:35 PM**

Can someone please post a rendering of how the WTC site will look from a Brooklyn Perspective once completed.

When 2 WTC is complete, wouldn't this tower obstruct the view of 1 WTC from across the Brooklyn Bridge?

sterlippo1 · #**9550** Posted **Aug 23, 2010, 4:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by winlinmac001

Can someone please post a rendering of how the WTC site will look from a Brooklyn Perspective once completed.

When 2 WTC is complete, wouldn't this tower obstruct the view of 1 WTC from across the Brooklyn Bridge?

isn't that a good thing?

to me that means some welcome density

NYC4Life · #**9551** Posted **Aug 23, 2010, 5:25 PM**

Wow, did not visit the forum in 3 days and already missed the amount of progress. Being absent just one day and you already fall behind on the updates coming from the WTC site.

nycdagreatest · #**9552** Posted **Aug 23, 2010, 5:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by winlinmac001

Can someone please post a rendering of how the WTC site will look from a Brooklyn Perspective once completed.

When 2 WTC is complete, wouldn't this tower obstruct the view of 1 WTC from across the Brooklyn Bridge?

well theirs always Google Earth

thanks to Sebastian S. for the great model of the world trade center.

muppet · #**9553** Posted **Aug 23, 2010, 6:50 PM**

wow its a beast in its unfinished state. Looks like a behemoth already, in a good way.

NYguy · #**9554** Posted **Aug 23, 2010, 7:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by muppet

wow its a beast in its unfinished state. Looks like a behemoth already, in a good way.

It's a beast that will only get bigger until it's taller than everything in the city...

CalibratedZeus · #**9555** Posted **Aug 23, 2010, 7:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by winlinmac001

Can someone please post a rendering of how the WTC site will look from a Brooklyn Perspective once completed.

When 2 WTC is complete, wouldn't this tower obstruct the view of 1 WTC from across the Brooklyn Bridge?

I was pretty curious too so I plotted out the planned layout of all the towers on a Google sat image and laid out some lines to see where views would be obstructed and where they would be best...

Red is pretty much totally blocked by one of the three other towers, and yellow is a partial obstruction. The green areas are all free and clear, and from the looks of it the green area in the southeast corner (Bottom-right of the photo) will turn out to have the best views of all the towers together.

None of this takes into account any tower currently there, like WTC 7 is sure to have an effect from viewers in the north-east, as well as the Goldman-Sachs building and World-Financial building to the west, north-west (although due to their height they have nowhere near the impact on the view that the other three planned towers would have).

Oh yeah, and I re-did my progress image, fixed the base and everything (the first time I did it I thought all the steel was squared and equidistant, turned out to not be the case when I looked again after) for up to the 16th office floor, which is where we currently have steel going in for.

evanmack · #**9556** Posted **Aug 23, 2010, 7:48 PM**

So it's like a quarter of the way up now?

CalibratedZeus · #**9557** Posted **Aug 23, 2010, 8:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by evanmack

So it's like a quarter of the way up now?

With the new steel for the 16th office floor the height will be almost exactly 400 feet. So yep, it is around the quarter height mark.

Zensteeldude · #**9558** Posted **Aug 23, 2010, 8:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by Loslocos

What on earth is that? Can't be part of the core steel as it's covered.

NYGuy

Anyone?

Looks to me like the framing for the "bump out" in the core on the north east corner. That bump out runs from the sub-grade levels all the way up to the 72nd floor, can't tell ya what's in it. (I know, just can't say)

I wish y'all could see the pics on this page through my eyes, but then I'd have to kill ya.

Traynor · #**9559** Posted **Aug 23, 2010, 9:38 PM**

Please forgive a question that I am sure has been asked and answered already a hundred times, but scanning through nearly 500 pages of this thread to find my answer seemed impossible.

Why is so much of WTC 1v2 unable to be occupied?

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Originally Posted by Zensteeldude
* 1-6 – tower base (including 60ft tall lobby and 5 mechanical floors)
* 20-63 – offices
* 64 – sky lobby
* 65-88 – offices
* 89-90 - Broadcast
* 91-93 - mechanical
* 100-101 – Restaurant
* 102 Observation Deck
* 103-104 – mechanical floors
* 105 - Roof
* 106 - Cooling tower catwalks
* 107-109 Communications Rings

Note: there are no floors 7-19 or 94-99.

By my count there are only 70 floors you can have an office, restaurant or observation deck on, out of a listed 108.

No building needs that much mechanical floorspace or broadcast floors. (Unless you are housing a secret CIA bunker)

So what is really going to occupy floors 7-19? Please don't answer mechanical. The only way that much floor space could be all mechanical, is if it's a General Motors assembly plant. LOL

SkyscrapersOfNewYork · #**9560** Posted **Aug 23, 2010, 9:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by Traynor

Please forgive a question that I am sure has been asked and answered already a hundred times, but scanning through nearly 500 pages of this thread to find my answer seemed impossible.

Why is so much of WTC 1v2 unable to be occupied?

By my count there are only 70 floors you can have an office, restaurant or observation deck on, out of a listed 108.

No building needs that much mechanical floorspace or broadcast floors. (Unless you are housing a secret CIA bunker)

So what is really going to occupy floors 7-19? Please don't answer mechanical. The only way that much floor space could be all mechanical, is if it's a General Motors assembly plant. LOL

ya know the PA's head Chris Ward has always said that this building will have undetectable security systems that will never be seen by the public.maybe that has something to do with it.