Always good to see more steel installed at this site. Now if it can just take off like WTC1 at the other end of that pit
Well friend you can say that again! Actually now roughly a third of the entire WTC site is still a pit (where towers 2 and 3 in addition to where the new Path Station is going to be) remain. I swear the new steel just put up has to have raised the level of the parimeter by at least 50 feet! Definitely enough to start catching up to the inner steel followed by concrete!
Actually now roughly a third of the entire WTC site is still a pit (where towers 2 and 3 in addition to where the new Path Station is going to be) remain.
Not really. It was a pit when there was no activity. Check out the threads of those various developments, and you will see much activity on those sites as site prep winds down to active construction. No one can refer to ground zero as a "pit" or even "ground zero" anymore, realisticly.
And this one is preparing to take off...
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Wow, those pictures (previous post) caught me by surprise. I literally jumped when I saw those long pieces of steel on the sides. I'm assuming those will serve as the load-bearing columns? Or if not, then perhaps to only support the floor slabs? The new WTC is rising!
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If not for the Freedom Tower rising nearby, this would be the biggest show in town currently. A solid, 975 ft tower...
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It's the concourse, or the open space, with the orange being the actual stores (basically a mall).
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This tower is going to be huge, with the presence at street level of one of the original towers. It's also the only WTC building other than 7
to be pretty much in the same location as the original.
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Will this tower, as well as towers 2&3 be built with the same measures that were taken at WTC1 in the act of a terrorist attack with a truck bomb? From what we see this building and particularly the base are pretty close to the street.
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Will this tower, as well as towers 2&3 be built with the same measures that were taken at WTC1 in the act of a terrorist attack with a truck bomb? From what we see this building and particularly the base are pretty close to the street.
They are close to the street, or at least as close as buildings in New York are to the street. The plan was to restore part of the street grid to through the site. The result is that we are getting towers that are more a part of the streetscape and city life than the original towers were. Furthermore, these towers don't stand beside the highway the way the Freedom Tower will, which was a big enough concern of the NYPD that the tower had to be redesigned. Previously, it too had a open and glassy base.
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