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

[NYguy]

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D. Mark

[JesseNewYorkCity]

It's so funny how most of these people who post these speculation pictures of the WTC being topped out forget 4 WTC. 4WTC will be almost 3.5 out of 5% done when the One World Trade Center is completed and will make an indention on the skyline.

[Starship Catvern]

From my photography run to NYC. This thing is already the nemesis that dominates the whole downtown skyline (Especially at night)



Can't wait till its complete so I can go to Jersey City at sundown to take pictures of it.

[Otie]

FMShare2011

[Jeff900]

What does the One World Trade Center base is gonna be made of ?
And could u please give an image or a rendering of what it's gonna looks like?
Because I know they cancelled a project for the Base,but now,what is it gonna be made of ??
Thanks a lot!

[hunser]

DER SPIEGEL

Die 15 Meter hohe Eingangslobby und der 57-Meter-Betonsockel des 1 WTC-Hochhauses sind so konstruiert, dass sie Bomben, Bränden und Erdbeben standhalten können. Die Aussichtsplattform wird sich auf der selben Höhenmarke befinden wie die Dächer der einstigen Twin Towers (415 und 417 Meter). Rechts: Das Hochhaus 7 WTC, das bereits 2006 fertiggestellt wurde, aber außerhalb der offiziellen Grenzen von Ground Zero liegt.

that's just wrong. :-/

Das 1 WTC, vormals "Freedom Tower", entworfen von Stararchitekt David Childs: Die Höhe von 1776 Fuß (541,32 Metern) steht für das Jahr der Unabhängigkeiterklärung 1776. Die Baukosten werden auf rund drei Milliarden Dollar geschätzt.

Be aware, DER SPIEGEL spreads wrong info!

[uaarkson]

Originally Posted by JesseNewYorkCity

It's so funny how most of these people who post these speculation pictures of the WTC being topped out forget 4 WTC. 4WTC will be almost 3.5 out of 5% done when the One World Trade Center is completed and will make an indention on the skyline.

Wait...what?

[RockMont]

Originally Posted by Jeff900

What does the One World Trade Center base is gonna be made of ?
And could u please give an image or a rendering of what it's gonna looks like?
Because I know they cancelled a project for the Base,but now,what is it gonna be made of ??
Thanks a lot!

Good Question. And no, not one that deserves a stupid answer, or any stupid answers either.

[Kevin Scott Koepke]

one world trade center; 8/5/2011 by kevin scott koepke photography, on Flickr

[Roadcruiser1]

Originally, and still now the base will be a concrete structure that reaches 20 floors so car bombers can't damage the building badly. The plan is to cover the concrete with glass to hide the concrete and to make the building look better.

Here is an image.

[RockMont]

That sounds like a good logical explanation. It should look good covered with glass. It was my understanding, that the attempt was to clad it with some sort of prismatic glass and it just wasn't going to work.

[Roadcruiser1]

Well they could use any glass. As long as it doesn't show the concrete, and hides it well.

[Loqy Lion]

Originally Posted by Roadcruiser1

Originally, and still now the base will be a concrete structure that reaches 20 floors so car bombers can't damage the building badly. The plan is to cover the concrete with glass to hide the concrete and to make the building look better.

It should be the new standard, especially in a place like the capital of the world- New York, New York. "Terrorism" is here to stay. Maybe not organized and of the extremist Muslim stripe, but it will always be a reality.

[JayPro]

Originally Posted by RockMont

That sounds like a good logical explanation. It should look good covered with glass. It was my understanding, that the attempt was to clad it with some sort of prismatic glass and it just wasn't going to work.

Yeah...flip a coin with the word "impracticality" on the one side and "cost" on the flip side and it's still 50/50.

Could they maybe take the air vents that are IIRC supposed to be for the upper floors and do the same treatment here as with 150G, i.e. put the vents at the base? That might work.

[NYguy]

BumbyFoto

[JesseNewYorkCity]

It's rising! It's rising!

[Traynor]

Originally Posted by Roadcruiser1

Originally, and still now the base will be a concrete structure that reaches 20 floors so car bombers can't damage the building badly. The plan is to cover the concrete with glass to hide the concrete and to make the building look better...

The concrete only extends to approximately the 6th floor. The remaining 13 floors of the base are mechanical and recessed from the facade by several feet.

The entire base is actually only equal to 14 office-size floors of 13'4" (as the rest of the office floors are measured). The number 20 is arbitrarily used because the base takes up approximately 19 apartment-sized floors on any residential building. From the ground, the first office floor would appear, to the average person, to be about 20 floors up (from their frame of reference of residential floors) Also 20 was used to boost the floor count and make the overall height of the building closely match the number of floors of the old twins.

[Traynor]

They are moving along quickly today. Exterior nodes for 77 and 78 are up already.


(Close-up of screen capture from OxBlue HD webcam found here: http://oxblue.com/pro/open/panynj/wtc )

[QUEENSNYMAN]

FROM: NYMAN2010

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51949497@N08/6012913026/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51949497@N08/6012911826/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51949497@N08/6012910226/in/photostream

[mindbender]

Originally Posted by Traynor

They are moving along quickly today. Exterior nodes for 77 and 78 are up already.

You know the cool part about the taper, is that unlike a lot of other buildings we'll know exactly when the steel is topping out.