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[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

Originally Posted by Dac150

I'm with the city on this one; hopefully those stairs stay.

the path from the site to the WFC?

[NYguy]

I agree that the stairs should stay. With all the minds involved today, I refuse to believe those stairs to be a major obstacle...

[wong21fr]

So, it looks there is vertical steel going up for the Memorial Museum pavilion on earthcam.

If so, another milestone.

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

what are the blue beams on the WFC side for?

[JSsocal]

They're for the wtc/wfc underground connector. (They're going underground)

[BStyles]

Picture from August 8th. Steel is definitely vertical:

[Innsertnamehere]

did you take that picture? if not, please credit it.

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

and that steel is for...?

[JSsocal]

^^^Memorial pavilion

[Renton]

Originally Posted by NYguy

Another element to the World Financial Center connection...

http://tribecatrib.com/news/2010/aug...y-objects.html
Brookfield Plans to Demolish Winter Garden Stairs; City Objects



By Matt Dunning

Now that stinks. This sorta flew under the radar. I think more people would be up in arms if they knew this.

[BStyles]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

did you take that picture? if not, please credit it.

Yes, that is my picture.

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

what will they demolish them for?

[JSsocal]

Connect the dots. The underground connector, which they are piling steal for, which you asked about earlier, will have to come up somewhere. Remember the reason those stairs were there in the first place was the above ground connection to the original WTC. (Its where you get that wonderful panoramic view of the site now). Now the connector comes from below ground, and so the stairs will be in the way. I hope they can simply have people move around the stairs as it is now coming from West Street.

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

Originally Posted by JSsocal

Connect the dots. The underground connector, which they are piling steal for, which you asked about earlier, will have to come up somewhere. Remember the reason those stairs were there in the first place was the above ground connection to the original WTC. (Its where you get that wonderful panoramic view of the site now). Now the connector comes from below ground, and so the stairs will be in the way. I hope they can simply have people move around the stairs as it is now coming from West Street.

o thanks lmao, i feel dumb right now.the WTC memorial pavilion is the answer to anything and everything.

[Zensteeldude]

The 18000 is probably going to install a section of the north plate girder tonight, around 1am local time. {Remember about 2 weeks ago it installed a section of the south plate girder}

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by JSsocal

Now the connector comes from below ground, and so the stairs will be in the way. I hope they can simply have people move around the stairs as it is now coming from West Street.

Not only that, but Brookfield plans to "enliven" that whole stretch of West St, which until now has really just been a backyard to the WFC, nothing like the Hudson side. At the same time, they want to open up the wintergarden so you can see straight through to the river from the west st side. It would look better perhaps, but that's something hardly neccessary.



http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/..._wtc_site.html

Iconic trident columns near a return to World Trade Center site, will be placed in planned museum

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Workers begin to prepare columns for transport. National Sept. 11 Memorial provides renderings of the trident beams within the planned museum

BY Douglas Feiden
August 12th 2010

Hardhats wielding blowtorches Wednesday began the delicate task of welding two of the iconic steel tridents left standing after the destruction of the World Trade Center for their triumphal return to Ground Zero next month.

Burned and battered - but unbowed - the 70-foot-tall, 90-ton columns that once supported the 110-story south tower have been stored at Kennedy Airport's Hangar 17 out of public view for the past nine years

The pillars - a global symbol of Big Apple grit as they stood sentinel over the rubble and carnage of downtown - will be enclosed side-by-side within the glass entrance pavilion at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

Too gargantuan to be moved to JFK intact, the tridents were initially cut in pieces at the site in 2002.

They are now being prepared for the move back downtown on flatbed trucks. The complex process involves welding them so they can be safely transported and then reassembled on the memorial site for installation in the museum atrium.

[Zensteeldude]

The pair weighs about 90 tons.

It would be nice if they took the ones not being used and turned them into say . . . . the USS New Jersey.

[BStyles]

Originally Posted by JSsocal

Connect the dots. The underground connector, which they are piling steal for, which you asked about earlier, will have to come up somewhere. Remember the reason those stairs were there in the first place was the above ground connection to the original WTC. (Its where you get that wonderful panoramic view of the site now). Now the connector comes from below ground, and so the stairs will be in the way. I hope they can simply have people move around the stairs as it is now coming from West Street.

The connector isn't coming into the winter garden. Apparently the entrance is directly outside, which, yeah, makes no sense. I wish they would just bring it into the Winter Garden if they're gonna demolish the stairs.

[NYguy]

August 14, 2010

One giant footprint, coming up...

Originally Posted by BStyles

I wish they would just bring it into the Winter Garden if they're gonna demolish the stairs.

Something else which makes no sense. The bottom line is, people are still going to have to enter the WinterGarden through "doors",
whether those stairs are there or not.

This is the entrance beneath/behind the stairs. I think part of the WinterGarden floor is above the river, which could be part of the problem with
tunneling beneath.

[upNaway]

does anyone know is they will keep the skylight on the orginal peice of slurry wall as it shows on the renderings ?