NEW YORK | World Trade Center Memorial & Transit Hub

[NYguy]

Work on the new pavilion at the opposite side of the connector begins...


http://www.observer.com/2012/02/broo...ancial-center/

Brookfield’s Heart of Glass: Developer Fetes New Glass Pavilion at World Financial Center



By Daniel Edward Rosen
2/14/12

In a cordoned off and seemingly unremarkable construction site situated along the West Side Highway, a collection of high-ranking Brookfield Office Properties executives, construction managers and architects donned hardhats and stood in front of a symbolic pile of dirt that had been lined up neatly atop wooden boards.

Holding a platinum shovel, the sun refracting off its blade that’s been buffed to a flawless shine, Brookfield’s Sabrina Kanner, senior vice president of design and construction, joined eight of her colleagues in digging their shovels into the symbolic dirt while holding big smiles for the press cameras. The occasion was the official groundbreaking ceremony for the new glass pavilion at the World Financial Center, seen as the complex’s new front door on West Street.

The ongoing construction at the World Trade Center site, coupled with the MTA’s new Fulton Street Transit Center, gave Brookfield an opportune window to make improvements to the World Financial Center. This is the second of three phases that Brookfield Office Properties is undertaking for its $250 million renovation. The first phase, which kicked off already, is the development of a new dinning terrace, including a 25,000 square foot marketplace that will boast “epicurean delights,” said Mr. Cheikin. A third phase, which will bring luxury retailer to the Courtyard area of the complex, is slated to begin later this year.

[BostonBuild]

Looks like steel to support B1 of the transit hub is being errected in the northeast cornern on earthcam.

From Earthcam:

[NYC GUY]

Hey when will they complete the Northeast section of the memorial?

[THE BIG APPLE]

^ The memorial is completed (but not fully operative). If you mean the NE section of the WTC site, then that will be FULLY completed when 2 (and even 3) WTC buildings and Trans Hub are completed.

[Tall guy 31]

I think he means the section that still needs cement and trees. Not sure though.

[NYguy]

Joel Woolhead, taken from wtc.com

http://www.wtc.com/

[Tall guy 31]

Seems to be a lot of FDNY activity (from webcam shots) between the memorial building and building number 4. Hope none of the workers got hurt.

[Dac150]

A steel beam fell 30 flrs from Tower 4

[Tall guy 31]

Oh wowwww.....anyone hurt???

[UrbanImpressionist]

...sooooo just went through all the pages since October and didn't see one pic of the site actually winter looking with snow. Has it not snowed at all this winter!? (God I hope that's not true or we're in deep %#&* with global warming).

Anyone able to post images of the Site (day AND night) covered in snow?

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[Dac150]

Originally Posted by Tall guy 31

Oh wowwww.....anyone hurt???

No serious injuries . . . an equipment truck was crushed.

[BostonBuild]

Originally Posted by UrbanImpressionist

...sooooo just went through all the pages since October and didn't see one pic of the site actually winter looking with snow. Has it not snowed at all this winter!? (God I hope that's not true or we're in deep %#&* with global warming).

Anyone able to post images of the Site (day AND night) covered in snow?

.

The Northeast US has had very little snow this year... I live in Boston and we had record low amount of snow to date this year, assuming the same for NYC... there is still more winter to go, so we may get some snow covered pics of the memorial yet...

Glad no one was hurt in the beam incident this am, I wonder if the nearby memorial was closed as a precaution as well?

[NYguy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/ny...ears.html?_r=1

At 9/11 Memorial, Police Raise Fears of Suicide



By AL BAKER
February 15, 2012

Police officials and grief experts share concerns that the memorial poses a unique risk because of its layout and its powerful relationship to the terrorist act of Sept. 11, 2001, and because those who lost loved ones that day may still have unresolved issues of loss.

The concern is as yet unrealized; there have been a million or so visitors to the memorial since it opened last September, and there have been no suicide attempts. Nonetheless, the police said a plan had been put in place.

“We have to think of these possibilities,” Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said in an interview with Esquire magazine. “People might commit suicide. We’re concerned about the possibility of somebody jumping in.”

As a practical matter, anyone trying to take his or her life in the waterfalls would have to scuttle over a bronze parapet inscribed with the names of those who died in the terrorist attacks in New York, Northern Virginia and Pennsylvania, as well as those who died in the trade center attack in 1993. Once the parapet is cleared, eight feet of water-covered marble must be navigated. Michael Frazier, a spokesman for the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, said the site was patrolled by officers from the police forces of New York City and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He added that there had been “no incidents in the pools, whatsoever.”

Originally Posted by Tall guy 31

Oh wowwww.....anyone hurt???

Tower 4
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=130302

[jd3189]

Hmm, would falling into a fountain like that really kill you?

Anyways,here's a video for the transit hub.

• Video Link

[THE BIG APPLE]

I knew this was COMING, when they announced the design of the square holes in the ground, as the memorial. I knew someone would try to jump in, or people having fear that someone will jump in.

[crewex]

WHoa, those 4 long pipes that were in the corner just ....disappeared?!

Looks like they removed them to make way for the new supports being installed. What where they? Were they pipes or supports?

[brenGT2]

I suspect that they were temporary shoring structures that were put in place to stop the land from collapsing into the pit when they excavated. Once the building is constructed, its own mass and support mechanisms counteract the surrounding land from slumping.

[marshall]

If you remember the old WTC complex, it was essentially a city within a city, it was cut off from most roads, and kind of isolated. The only close access road to the twin towers was West Street. The plaza was a mini-world unto itself. I think its interesting how in the new master plan and new WTC complex, they are going to integrate it with the surrounding blocks more, like with running Greenwich Street all the way through instead of stopping just north like before 9/11. Also, Fulton Street will run east to west right by 1wtc. In short, the new plaza will be much more open and be more a part of the surrounding city, unlike before when all the streets basically stopped at the old wtc plaza.

[JACKinBeantown]

Why does the webcam always point at the river in the afternoon and evening? Aaaaarrgghhhh!

[Ferocrete]

The first column for the oculus has been placed just to the right of the crane.

http://archives.earthcam.com/archive...gzmpr288_4.jpg