NEW YORK | World Trade Center Memorial & Transit Hub - Page 163

Nexis4Jersey · #**3241** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 9:21 PM**

From Yesterday

World Trade Center Hub in Lower Manhattan,NY by Corey Best, on Flickr

World Trade Center PATH Station by Corey Best, on Flickr

chris08876 · #**3242** Posted **Jul 25, 2015, 4:55 AM**

Pics by me

Vertical_Gotham · #**3243** Posted **Aug 3, 2015, 9:20 PM**

8/2

Nexis4Jersey · #**3244** Posted **Aug 5, 2015, 7:01 AM**

From yesterday

World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan,NY by Corey Best, on Flickr

Skyguy_7 · #**3245** Posted **Aug 7, 2015, 7:38 PM**

From a friend who's staying at the MH today. Cool angle of the "Wings"

chris08876 · #**3246** Posted **Sep 6, 2015, 11:34 PM**

Pic by me

ArtDecoRevival · #**3247** Posted **Sep 9, 2015, 3:27 PM**

So what's the story with this? Been pretty quiet in this thread lately. Is it still on schedule for December? Shame it can't be open by the anniversary. It seems like externally it's mostly finished, so now it's just the guts? Any actual construction updates?

chris08876 · #**3248** Posted **Sep 9, 2015, 5:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by ArtDecoRevival

So what's the story with this? Been pretty quiet in this thread lately. Is it still on schedule for December? Shame it can't be open by the anniversary. It seems like externally it's mostly finished, so now it's just the guts? Any actual construction updates?

This coming 9/11, so two days from now, the oculus will retract. Being part of the symbolic nature of it. I believe something like two hours or close to it.

I think its still on track for a December opening. Parts of the station with that beautiful white marvel have been open for a while. The concourse is great.

Streamliner · #**3249** Posted **Sep 10, 2015, 3:36 PM**

Article from the NYT on St. Nicholas National Shrine:

Church, Rising at Trade Center Site, Will Glow Where Darkness Fell
New York Times
September 9, 2015
David W. Dunlap

Source

Quote:

On Aug. 28, the first concrete was poured. This week, the formwork is in place for the base of the drum-shaped sanctuary. Construction is expected to take two years.

The $35 million domed structure to the south of the memorial will glow at night through a veneer of white Pentelic marble, from the same vein in Greece that was quarried to construct the Parthenon.

...

Fulfilling the requirement of modernity, the principal facade of St. Nicholas, a drum supporting its 48 ½-foot-diameter dome, will glow softly from within after dark. The concrete load-bearing walls will be sheathed in a curtain wall of glass panels sandwiching slices of marble so thin — two or three millimeters — that they will be translucent, illuminated by LEDs in the cavity between the concrete and curtain walls.

Because the glass surface will be nonreflective, it will appear in the daytime that the church is sheathed in solid stone, Mr. Dimitriou said, as he led a reporter and a photographer through the concrete outline of St. Nicholas.

BoM Trespasser · #**3250** Posted **Sep 10, 2015, 11:37 PM**

Lights on at Transit Hub?

http://www.earthcam.net/archives/3fd...09/10/1915.jpg

CalibratedZeus · #**3251** Posted **Sep 13, 2015, 4:16 PM**

DSC_2974
by calibratedzeus, on Flickr

DSC_2976
by calibratedzeus, on Flickr

DSC_3001
by calibratedzeus, on Flickr

DSC_3003
by calibratedzeus, on Flickr

DSC_3004
by calibratedzeus, on Flickr

DSC_3007
by calibratedzeus, on Flickr

DSC_3489
by calibratedzeus, on Flickr

DSC_3492
by calibratedzeus, on Flickr

davidinasia · #**3252** Posted **Sep 13, 2015, 5:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by CalibratedZeus

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I'm looking at this and thinking "hmmm.... is that the finalized finish quality on the rafters? Hope not..."

Years of work - years - with all those bucket cranes and fitting, welding, polishing, filling gaps, primer coat, overcoat, coat again, touch up, etc etc etc and it still looks like that? Not blaming contractors, I think there was something in this design, maybe the joints of the rafter pieces, that has made it incredibly difficult to get a good finish.

What does the future hold too considering the NYC weather and the corrosion setting in? I'm thinking about Calatrava projects in Spain and that is a much more mild climate than the US northeast. On the other hand, I've seen his museum in Milwaukee and that seems to be holding up fine, don't know about the maintenance cost though.

BoM Trespasser · #**3253** Posted **Sep 13, 2015, 6:53 PM**

Months, not years.

alex1217 · #**3254** Posted **Sep 13, 2015, 11:47 PM**

Those scratches look like they were made by the cherry pickers, I really hope there's still a glossy final paint that will be applied. There are still small crevices that seem unpainted leading me to believe there's still a final layer that will be applied. I hope so, otherwise the paint job was done without any care at all.

JSsocal · #**3255** Posted **Sep 14, 2015, 2:14 AM**

^Be real guys, look closely across the whole thing, theres beige paint, gray paint, dots and speckles everywhere. Most importantly they have yet to install the (aluminum?) panels between the rafters and next to the skylight, and between the side glass and the exterior ribs. This thing has a ways to go before final paint.

rockinrolla · #**3256** Posted **Sep 17, 2015, 2:31 AM**

not sure if this is the right forum but is the transit hub where the mall is going to be? if so the path pictures i saw

had a wall at the end i'm guess till the transit hub is finished ? thanks
http://galleries.gothamistllc.com/as.../185720752.jpg is this the wall from the transit hub?? not sure

drumz0rz · #**3257** Posted **Sep 22, 2015, 9:14 PM**

The other side of that wall will open up to the main PATH transit hall once construction is complete. The old temporary platforms have been removed and the new permanent platforms are going in now. Once that's done the walls will come down.

The mall will mostly be north of the PATH transit hall, in the basements of Towers 3 and 4. Here's a previously posted schematic with my crude drawing of what's open right now:

I realized the connection to 1 WTC / Brookfield place is on the wrong side of where I labeled the turnstiles but you get the idea.

eleven=11 · #**3258** Posted **Sep 26, 2015, 11:16 AM**

http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/...cam=stnicholas
nice new cam, very good pictures
What about the Fulton Station?

C. · #**3259** Posted **Sep 27, 2015, 1:01 AM**

Will it have access to nearby Fulton Station?

OBreaux1 · #**3260** Posted **Sep 27, 2015, 3:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by CIA

Will it have access to nearby Fulton Station?

It will. There will be a passageway linking Fulton Station to the WTC Hub. In fact, it will be possible to walk all the way from Brookfield Place to Fulton Station without having to go outdoors and/or above ground. Great for commuting in the winter!

In the map above, you can see some truncated text to the right of the Oculus. That's where the passageway connects.