NEW YORK | One World Trade Center | 1,776' Pinnacle / 1,373' Roof | 108 FLOORS - Page 540

Don098 · #**10781** Posted **Nov 9, 2010, 12:37 AM**

STR, you're the man (or woman?) You're both right, I thought about the lens effect later on and realized that it had introduced a good deal of distortion into the image. In any case, I'm actually glad that it dominates WTC7 so profoundly...this is a good thing!

STR · #**10782** Posted **Nov 9, 2010, 6:54 AM**

^I'm male, with the man-junk and everything, which is BTW glorious to behold.

RobertWalpole · #**10783** Posted **Nov 9, 2010, 11:46 AM**

That's hilarious!

NYguy · #**10784** Posted **Nov 9, 2010, 3:18 PM**

Another sneak peek...

http://www.glassonweb.com/news/index/12276/
PPG makes glass for Freedom Tower

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One inch-thick (25 millimeter) STARPHIRE(R) ultra-clear glass, specially manufactured for One World Trade Center, rolls off the production line at PPG Industries’ Carlisle Glass Works in central Pennsylvania.

The building, also known as Freedom Tower, is currently under construction at the new World Trade Center complex in lower Manhattan. The glass was selected specifically by the tower’s design and engineering teams for its thickness and clarity. It will be the signature element in a 185 feet-tall podium glass wall that will incorporate more than 2,000 pieces of prismatic glass and welded aluminum screens. When completed in 2013, One World Trade Center will reach 102 stories and 1,776 feet, making it the tallest building in the United States.

Plokoon11 · #**10785** Posted **Nov 9, 2010, 3:58 PM**

Well folks from what I see on Earthcam they are removing the safety netting off of where the fire proofing was done which could possibly mean there almost ready to put cladding up soon.

RKOwens44 · #**10786** Posted **Nov 9, 2010, 4:56 PM**

I'm confused. In that story above about the glass cladding, does anyone know where that glass is supposed to be located on the building? It says the glass will be the signature element in the podium, but that glass sure as hell doesn't look like the prismatic glass that we've been told about for years and that we can see in the renderings. It just looks like ordinary glass.

Plokoon11 · #**10787** Posted **Nov 9, 2010, 6:29 PM**

God damn it how long is it going to take for this cladding to go up. Lol my patience is running out.

xnyr · #**10788** Posted **Nov 9, 2010, 6:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by RKOwens44

I'm confused. In that story above about the glass cladding, does anyone know where that glass is supposed to be located on the building? It says the glass will be the signature element in the podium, but that glass sure as hell doesn't look like the prismatic glass that we've been told about for years and that we can see in the renderings. It just looks like ordinary glass.

Yeah.... And I thought that the prismatic glass was coming from China

Bucktown718 · #**10789** Posted **Nov 9, 2010, 7:27 PM**

Get ready.

Plokoon11 · #**10790** Posted **Nov 9, 2010, 9:15 PM**

Drum roll people.....

sw5710 · #**10791** Posted **Nov 9, 2010, 10:13 PM**

the cranes have been jumped to floor 46 today.

Zensteeldude · #**10792** Posted **Nov 9, 2010, 10:14 PM**

Don't be surprised if they put up some curtain wall sections tonight while the steel crew is asleep. It is common for the tower cranes on a building to work the structure during the day and everything else at night.

NYCLuver · #**10793** Posted **Nov 9, 2010, 10:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by Zensteeldude

Don't be surprised if they put up some curtain wall sections tonight while the steel crew is asleep. It is common for the tower cranes on a building to work the structure during the day and everything else at night.

Bu...bu...but I won't be heading into Manhattan till Friday! They must wait!!!!! I have to get first pictures!

Okay fine, I don't HAVE to, it'll be great to see any glass by Friday when I get there already installed.

Pbellamy · #**10794** Posted **Nov 9, 2010, 11:38 PM**

Might be the last chance to get a few images of this beast before the glass comes...

Here it is this afternoon

Pbellamy · #**10795** Posted **Nov 10, 2010, 12:09 AM**

A few more from my 'last pre-cladding' wander...

Obey · #**10796** Posted **Nov 10, 2010, 1:38 AM**

So this week we will be seeing the cladding going up?

NYguy · #**10797** Posted **Nov 10, 2010, 3:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by xnyr

Yeah.... And I thought that the prismatic glass was coming from China

It's a little more complicated than that...
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=5036105&postcount=10649

Pic from wtc.com (Nov 2)

Draegen · #**10798** Posted **Nov 10, 2010, 6:04 AM**

Why is that upper corner still a hole? they arent making a building there are they?

STR · #**10799** Posted **Nov 10, 2010, 6:26 AM**

^Along West St? It's going to be an elevated park sitting over underground infrastructure.

winlinmac001 · #**10800** Posted **Nov 10, 2010, 6:33 AM**

Can somebody please explain the objects circled in the photo below (i.e. purpose). Thank you.
Also, there are some white markers placed on 1 WTC and I don't if they are meant to keep the glass properly positioned. If someone can clarify that would be great. Thanks.