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Old Posted Mar 13, 2008, 4:45 PM
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Work to Begin on Freedom's Friends This Week

The hum of activity at the World Trade Center site has picked up recently, and now, the moment unemployed mail room workers and janitorial staff have been waiting for: WTC developer Larry Silverstein announced yesterday that construction on Towers 3 and 4 will begin this week. That doesn't give the promise much time of coming to fruition, but we'll give ol' Larry the benefit of the doubt. After all, it's not like we're going to see delays on a project as big and as sensitive as the World Trade Center, right? [awkward silence] To refresh the brain factory, Tower 3 is Richard Rogers' ultrapatriotic 71-story criss-cross with the J.Lo butt. Tower 4 is Fumihiko Maki's 64-story plain Jane of the bunch. Both are expecting to top out in 2010, with Norman Foster's blinged out Tower 2 reaching maximum awesomeness a year later. As for Tower 1, known to all as the Freedom Tower, expect steel to be visible in a few months. USA! USA!
     
     
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When will they finish dismantling the old dinosaur building at 130 Liberty Street? It's an eyesore!
     
     
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can someone plz draw in (only the footprint) the 4 skyscraper?
that would be very kindly and helpful.
     
     
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hmmm i can't see the image.... i mean the upper of NYguy's pictures in page 11 (post #202)
     
     
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hmmm i can't see the image.... i mean the upper of NYguy's pictures in page 11 (post #202)
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can someone plz draw in (only the footprint) the 4 skyscraper?
that would be very kindly and helpful.
All four towers will be in the above picture. The bottom right of the picture is the Freedom Tower (WTC1), to the left of that is tower 2, towers 3 and 4 are in the upper left, and the memorials are on the upper right. Here is a photo from Dubai2015 to help visualize it.

     
     
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I have never really liked these designs, it just doesnt seem to fit in with anything in NYC, maybe Dubai or Chicago but not NY. hmm, but when theyre done Im sure that they will eventually be accepted and become a symbol of NYC, hopefully.
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thank you very much NYguy and PhxSprawler.
does anyone know what that building between wtc2 and 3 is? (that looks like a tent)some kind of museum?
     
     
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Even though these renderings are a year old NYguy, I just HAD to quote them because they're so beautiful; and they make the tower look so....inviting!
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Is this tower actually under construction yet?
     
     
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thank you very much NYguy and PhxSprawler.
does anyone know what that building between wtc2 and 3 is? (that looks like a tent)some kind of museum?
Its the new PATH terminal by Calatrava.

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All four towers will be in the above picture. The bottom right of the picture is the Freedom Tower (WTC1), to the left of that is tower 2, towers 3 and 4 are in the upper left, and the memorials are on the upper right. Here is a photo from Dubai2015 to help visualize it.

What a great cluster of supertalls! I love the design of all of them. It still gets to me seeing the old foundations of the old WTC.
     
     
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^Thank Goodness for this tower...seriously. Love the bottom, it's such a stark contrast to FT fortress...
     
     
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^Thank Goodness for this tower...seriously. Love the bottom, it's such a stark contrast to FT fortress...
Yeah, isn't the fortress at FT quite nasty considering that the lobby of 175 Greenwich is a bright and 'vulnerable' structure??? It's all glass and almost even so street level. Curbstones are no barriers for cars, as we all know.

If I was a terrorist, I'd concentrate on the weaker structures. If somebody blew 175 Greenwich up, where's the difference to the Freedom Tower?
It's all the new WTC. If just one of those towers came down, it's all going
to hell. Again that is.

As a real freedom statement to the world FT's base should look just as open, translucent and inviting as the other towers do.
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It doesn't seem there has been much progress lately.
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http://downtownexpress.com/de_259/postreports.html

Port reports on World Trade Center progress

By Julie Shapiro
APRIL 19 - 26, 2008

Brathwaite also gave updates on Towers 2, 3 and 4, which Silverstein Properties is building. Silverstein recently finished doing test blasts at the sites for Towers 3 and 4 and is now preparing to do production blasting, to ready the bathtub for the foundations of the towers, designed by Richard Rogers and Fumihiko Maki. Workers will blow warning whistles before blasts to advise residents, workers and pedestrians, Brathwaite said.

Just to the north, the Port Authority is excavating the Tower 2 site, which it must turn over to Silverstein Properties by June 30 or else face a $300,000-a-day penalty. The Port faced a similar deadline for Towers 3 and 4 and ultimately paid Silverstein $14.4 million after missing the Dec. 31, 2007 deadline by nearly seven weeks.

But Brathwaite said things look better at Tower 2 and the Port expects to meet the June 30 deadline. There is less dense rock at Tower 2, meaning that the Port likely will not have to use hoe rams, large jackhammers, to finish excavating. The density of the rock is what delayed the excavation at Towers 3 and 4, and the pounding of the hoe rams kept residents up all night long late last fall into the winter.

Glenn Guzi, a Port Authority program manager, said the Port would try not to work between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. But Bill Love, a board member who lives in Gateway Plaza, said he recently looked out his window at 1 a.m. and saw two machines digging at the Tower 2 site.

After resident complaints during the excavation for Towers 3 and 4, the Port Authority agreed to pay for soundproof windows in three residential buildings: 110 Liberty St., 125 Cedar St. and 90 West St. The Port is working with building owners but no windows have been installed yet, Guzi said. He added that the Port has no plans to extend the program to additional buildings, like Gateway Plaza.

Work is also moving ahead at the Freedom Tower, where passersby will begin to see steel rising past street level in the late summer or early fall, Brathwaite said.
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I'm really glad to see there is still some progress on this one
     
     
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Will it be possible to actually see the old twins foundation in their footprints' memorial site? I'm not only talking about their square footprints - I'm thinking about the points where the massive steal beams for each tower were anchored into the bedrock. I think I can remember that those connections weren't removed in order to preserve them. It's all what's left of the towers that's still in place.
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