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Old Posted Mar 29, 2007, 11:37 AM
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I thought Larry was still the developer... is it the Port Authority now???
It's the Port Authority's tower. Any change must go through them. But we're way beyond that point now. As with the "rebuild the Twin Towers" crowd, your constant call for a new Freedom Tower design is both stale and ridiculous. This tower is already under construction.
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Old Posted Mar 29, 2007, 12:36 PM
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Finally!!

Since EarthCam had to relocate their Ground Zero Cam, and LMDC shut their's down, its been hard to find good images of the footings structure and progress. It's actually easier to find historical photos of Towers 1 and 2 during their early construction. Anyway, Yahoo news posts some periodically at http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/even...1102groundzero. Here are some I haven't seen anywhere else.











Not being in construction or Civil Engineering, I don't know if that's a crane base (I assume) or part of the structure that will "rise out of the pit" - sort of H.G. Wells-ish.

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Old Posted Mar 29, 2007, 12:40 PM
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Yeah, it's the base for crane! I'm also looking forward to see PA's this month pics.
     
     
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Old Posted Mar 29, 2007, 12:43 PM
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It's the Port Authority's tower. Any change must go through them. But we're way beyond that point now.
So is this out-dated information?
     
     
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Old Posted Mar 29, 2007, 7:33 PM
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BTW, I can't figure out if those are all variations of the Freedom Tower behind Childs...

Those are the study models that are chilling by the back wall of the office's presentation room. What you see is 1/3 of the wall at least.

Great FT progress. Finally we'll get to see a crane rise on the site.
     
     
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I was about to ask what that big X-shaped red thing was.

Looks like it was put where the core will go.
     
     
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found on SSC

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Old Posted Mar 30, 2007, 12:10 PM
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That thing looks like one of the hat trusses that topped out the former towers.
     
     
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Old Posted Mar 30, 2007, 12:38 PM
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In case there's any more doubt that this tower is being built...
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I guess X marks the spot...!
     
     
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Where is spain is this being built?
any other details you can offer me, this is a nice building
Hi,

The torre cristal is currentely being built in Madrid, Spain, part of a group of 4 skyscrapers of 226-250m (800 foot-ish)







It is quite similar in design, apart from the spike thing.

I have a thread on these towers if anyone wants to read more about them:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=118065

or see my time lapse evolution video of them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOwQlvaGa5c

Greetings from Madrid,

I hope to visit NY one of these days
     
     
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the columns still look out of place, just seems like they can't be part of the tower
     
     
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I have a question about the freedom tower, is it just me- or does it look like the FT has less office space/volume than one of the old WTC?
     
     
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the columns still look out of place, just seems like they can't be part of the tower
No, they are in place. Why they couldn't be?
     
     
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I have a question about the freedom tower, is it just me- or does it look like the FT has less office space/volume than one of the old WTC?
I don't know the exact figures (I'm sure others here will know better) but yes, the FT has less office space/volume than one of the WTC towers.

Keep in mind that the WTC towers had square floors that were the same size going all the way up; they never tapered at all. On the other hand, FT tapers slowly to smaller floor plates as it goes up.
     
     
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Blue Dragon, Could you give post the link to the SSC for those pictures? I thank you
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Old Posted Mar 30, 2007, 4:40 PM
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Blue Dragon, Could you give post the link to the SSC for those pictures? I thank you
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That image is from Wikipedia and it's only one on 2007.
     
     
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Old Posted Mar 30, 2007, 7:26 PM
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I have a question about the freedom tower, is it just me- or does it look like the FT has less office space/volume than one of the old WTC?
We can't even replace one of the original WTC towers, let alone both. Isn't that sad...!
     
     
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