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Old Posted Jul 1, 2013, 5:54 PM
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the effect is the same. The difference is just a tacky white skin.
Not at all. If it's just "skin", it would look the same, with just another layer over it. What you call the "skin" was actually the designed element of the mast, not the hidden innerworkings. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to see the difference. But even if that were the case, it still wouldn't be the same. You don't even have to take my word for it...


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The omission of the shell presented design issues for Barbizon. Lighting a steel skelton is not the same as lighting white fiberglass.

I'm certain the lighting will look nice, but it will be in the sense that anything can look nice with lighting - it's actually the lighting that will look nice. Or think of it this way, would you rather highlight a piece of architecture, or the frame beneath?




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Couple quick shots with my point'n'shoot from today on my way from the E to the PATH,


WTC 6-30-13 by calibratedzeus, on Flickr


WTC 6-30-13 by calibratedzeus, on Flickr


WTC 6-30-13 by calibratedzeus, on Flickr


WTC 6-30-13 by calibratedzeus, on Flickr


WTC 6-30-13 by calibratedzeus, on Flickr
Sooner or later, this "zipper" must be zipped up.
     
     
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Old Posted Jul 1, 2013, 6:30 PM
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I'm certain the lighting will look nice, but it will be in the sense that anything can look nice with lighting - it's actually the lighting that will look nice.
that's what I was getting at.
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Does anyone know when the guy wires will be installed?
     
     
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Old Posted Jul 2, 2013, 2:34 AM
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Some pics of One WTC I've taken over the last few weeks since just moving to the city.

From Tribeca:



From my sublet rooftop:



Another Tribeca viewpoint:



From the North Cove near WFC:



From the North Cove near WFC:



From the Irish Hunger Memorial:



From the penthouse room of One Wall St.:



From the another rooftop:
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^ Wow! great pictures! is anyone else having trouble getting onto skyscrapercity?
     
     
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^ Wow! great pictures! is anyone else having trouble getting onto skyscrapercity?
Yeah, I tried a couple of times tonight and I get a page that says "Reported Attack Page!"
     
     
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What's with the last picture above? That's not from, or looking at the WTC.

Corection: My mistake, oversized picture.

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Old Posted Jul 2, 2013, 12:43 PM
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From the penthouse room of One Wall St.:

Shows the scale of these towers.




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On the morning of September 11, 2001, architect Nicole Dosso was at the sleek Wall Street offices of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, where she had worked since 1998.
“To this day, all of the details come back, almost like in slow motion,” she says, recalling how when she returned to the SOM offices a week later, everything
was covered in dust, including her uneaten breakfast. She couldn’t have imagined then, amid the ashes and ruin, that one day she’d be responsible for keeping the
construction of One World Trade Center (the “Freedom Tower”), the main building of the new WTC complex and perhaps the most discussed and scrutinized building in America, on course.

Raised in Westchester and educated at Syracuse University, 38-year-old Dosso joined the 1 WTC project in late 2006, after seeing work on 7 World Trade Center
through to that building’s opening day. “It’s been exciting to watch Tower One start to reshape the Manhattan skyline,” says Dosso of the 1,776-foot-tall skyscraper
that will be America’s tallest. “Once the building got above a certain elevation, it gave the city a marker and a point of focus. It is a landmark again.”

Dosso’s task is a huge one—taking David Childs’s design from concept to reality. To do this, she leads a team of more than 30 architects, who keep some 1,100 workers
on task as well as oversee contractors and work closely with fabricators tapped to produce boundary-pushing innovations (like super strong concrete and the
fastest set of elevators in North America).

The hardest part of coordinating the massive construction effort? “Just keeping up,” says Dosso, who points to the web of subterranean concourses and corridors
that required complex feats of both construction and communication. “Until we got to the ground level, if we had a dozen consultants, the many parties involved each
had another dozen consultants,” she says. “Dealing with all of those different personalities and extracting the information needed to get the job done is probably the most
challenging part of the project.”

With the cladding completed in May and the spire recently installed at the top, work continues apace inside the building. The raw space on the 100th, 101st, and 102nd floors
is now being transformed into “One World Observatory,” where visitors will be able to take in spectacular city views in early 2015. Dosso eagerly awaits another milestone
—temporary certificate of occupancy, expected as early as August, after which certain floors can be handed over to tenants and their contractors for design and completion.


With the bulk of her work on 1 WTC slated to end within the next year, Dosso is almost ready for her next challenge. “I used to say, How could it ever get any bigger or any better?
But you’d be surprised,” she says with a smile. “In New York, just when you think you’ve seen it all, something new and great will come along.”


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The glass around the south entrance-way certainly looks interesting!
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pics of the spire lighting test have surfaced on instagram


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hey now!!

we have been waiting -- thanks for those.

can someone get more tonight?!!
     
     
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Old Posted Jul 3, 2013, 1:55 AM
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The mast isn't going to be lit again until Thursday.
     
     
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Old Posted Jul 3, 2013, 2:24 AM
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(Took a quick swing downtown for a couple of pictures.)




great pics,,,, you always get the best shots
     
     
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Wow! Looks amazing!! Looks like a light saber on top of 1WTC.
     
     
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Wow! Looks amazing!! Looks like a light saber on top of 1WTC.
Well, to me it looks like an old sci-fi flash-gordon cheap ray gun. I'm not liking it a lot...
     
     
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