NEW YORK | One World Trade Center | 1,776' Pinnacle / 1,373' Roof | 108 FLOORS - Page 503

meh_cd · #**10041** Posted **Sep 22, 2010, 9:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by vandelay

HEY! It's Hammond, Clarkson, and May! Well their cars at least.

Hahaha I had to check Google, but you guys aren't kidding! Looking forward to the episode.

And now back to our regular scheduled 1 WTC news.

NYguy · #**10042** Posted **Sep 22, 2010, 10:16 PM**

^ Thank you sir.

ofish108

MadGnome · #**10043** Posted **Sep 22, 2010, 10:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by Zensteeldude

Twelve more floors before the sloped corner column meets the vertical column. They will be joined in a "node" simmiler to, but much smaller than, the 20th floor node.

(The node is going to be centered on the 52nd floor and is roughly 2.5 floors high.)

Will there be another node at that point expanding the center column in the sloped side into 2 or 3 columns?

Domamania · #**10044** Posted **Sep 23, 2010, 2:22 AM**

If you would compare the growth of tower 1v2 in comparrison to the growth of a human, which stage would you consider it to be right now?

Zensteeldude · #**10045** Posted **Sep 23, 2010, 2:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by SkyscrapersOfNewYork

run that by me again,whats happening on the 52nd floor?

OK, the corners of the tower are chamfered. They lean in. The sloped columns of the chamfered corners meet the straight columns of the vertical sides at the 52nd floor, and again at the 82nd floor.

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Originally Posted by MadGnome

Will there be another node at that point expanding the center column in the sloped side into 2 or 3 columns?

It's hard to discribe in words. The columns transition from the vertical face to the chamfered face.

Onn · #**10046** Posted **Sep 23, 2010, 3:36 AM**

This is turning into quite a bit more of an intresting tower overall than it first seemed.

Boquillas · #**10047** Posted **Sep 23, 2010, 6:22 AM**

A bit old (Sept 8), but a cool sketch from a fellow urban sketcher friend of mine from Flickr:

Freedom Tower Construction by steelforest, on Flickr

NYguy · #**10048** Posted **Sep 23, 2010, 2:01 PM**

RicardoBeck

jim (hentsch) dell

Lucio Santos

hunser · #**10049** Posted **Sep 23, 2010, 2:19 PM**

new vids... latest ones from 09-17. next vid will be on this weekend.
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/rise-of-freedom/

NYguy · #**10050** Posted **Sep 23, 2010, 2:39 PM**

brabon

NY-rob-NY · #**10051** Posted **Sep 23, 2010, 3:22 PM**

cool, this are very intresting pictures.

MadGnome · #**10052** Posted **Sep 23, 2010, 7:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by Zensteeldude

OK, the corners of the tower are chamfered. They lean in. The sloped columns of the chamfered corners meet the straight columns of the vertical sides at the 52nd floor, and again at the 82nd floor.

It's hard to discribe in words. The columns transition from the vertical face to the chamfered face.

Those words are fine. I think I get the picture.

upNaway · #**10053** Posted **Sep 23, 2010, 8:29 PM**

looks like they have removed half of the corner form at the base looking gd

CoolCzech · #**10054** Posted **Sep 23, 2010, 11:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by NYguy

RicardoBeck

Heh. Looks like the Mother Ship is about come down thru the clouds.

westmc9th · #**10055** Posted **Sep 24, 2010, 2:30 AM**

Greenwich Boy update i stongly reccomend u check out his update for 150 greenwich street its really taking off.

NYC4Life · #**10056** Posted **Sep 24, 2010, 4:12 AM**

Another closeup of the steel:

RedRhone - Flickr

xnyr · #**10057** Posted **Sep 24, 2010, 1:23 PM**

Zensteeldude, I couldn't think of a better person on this board to ask this question...

What's the difference between a girder and a beam?

Always bugged me...

Thx

dchan · #**10058** Posted **Sep 24, 2010, 2:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by xnyr

Zensteeldude, I couldn't think of a better person on this board to ask this question...

What's the difference between a girder and a beam?

Always bugged me...

Thx

Beams are the smaller of the horizontal load bearing members, and span between the girders. They support the weight of floor and dead loads/live loads above, and transmit these weight and loads to the girders. Many beams can span between two girders, depending on the weight/load the beams need to carry.

Girders are the larger of the horizontal load bearing members, and span between the load bearing column members. They carry the weight of beams (and the weight of the floors and other dead loads/live loads above) and transmit this weight to the load bearing columns.

Or think of it this way:

Girder = Big horizontal member
Beam = Small horizontal member that is supported by big horizontal member

xnyr · #**10059** Posted **Sep 24, 2010, 2:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by dchan

Girder = Big horizontal member
Beam = Small horizontal member that is supported by big horizontal member

Thanks for the clear explanation dchan. I appreciate it.

So are beams equivalent to joists in home construction?

Gleb · #**10060** Posted **Sep 24, 2010, 2:48 PM**

Original picture from: http://www.panynj.gov/wtcprogress/

Does anybody know if there's gonna be a sculpture like "The Sphere" around 1WTC plaza?