7 World Trade Center - by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

[NoyokA]

The only building I've ever seen where the glass is better than in the renderings.

[195Broadway]

"It's just another box" my left brain reasons. The other half has trouble looking away. Seeing it evokes the feeling of crisp winter air, the kind you notice. The kind one inhales again to experience every last molecule of freshness.

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[BrooklynLove]

This building is a great example of how unremarkable can still be remarkable. I'm looking forward to seeing how the glass reflections play with each other once 1 WTC is up next door.

[Derek2k3]

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BostonCityWalks (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bostoncitywalk/4176174165/sizes/l/in/pool-18964236@N00/)

[HoveringCheesecake]

Anyone know who moved into those top floors?

[GreenwichBoy]

Anyone know who moved into those top floors?


WestLB: 50th - 52nd floors
WestLB AG is one of Germany´s leading financial services providers and offers the full range of products and services of a universal bank, focusing on lending, structured finance, capital market and private equity products, private banking, asset management, transaction services and real estate finance. WestLB has total assets of €273.1 billion, as of September 30, 2008. For more information, please visit www.westlb.com (http://www.westlb.com/).

[HoveringCheesecake]

Thanks, as always, GB.

[DKNY617]

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[NoyokA]

Can't get enough of that skin. I dare anyone to show me a building with a better glass facade.

[BrooklynLove]

That first shot is fabulous. Very artistic.

[DKNY617]

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[jayden]

If the remaining towers turn out as great as this than we really are in for a treat.

[JSsocal]

^^^True, though I am glad they will all get different facade treatments. As great as 7 WTC is, I don't think it would look good across the entire site

[jayden]

^^^True, though I am glad they will all get different facade treatments. As great as 7 WTC is, I don't think it wouldn't look good across the entire site
I agree. From the renderings it looks like Tower 4 will have very similar facade to the old WTC and the other two towers will have their own unique elements added on. But aside from the base, isn't 1WTC supposed to have the same facade as 7WTC?

[JSsocal]

^^^Not quite, you can see by the picture of this mock-up, that there is no spacing between the panels in each floor, as in 7WTC, and so it appears 1WTC will have a much smoother surface then 7WTC has.
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[lofter1]

Imagine a big rain storm and the accompanying slide of water moving down the corners of 1 WTC :D

[jayden]

Ok, thanks JS.

[Catflap60]

Imagine a big rain storm and the accompanying slide of water moving down the corners of 1 WTC :D

LOL just a smooth water slide like a water park for free!:)

[DMAG]

Imagine a big rain storm and the accompanying slide of water moving down the corners of 1 WTC :D

Funny you mention that lofter. Since the "slide" ends at the top of the base, I wonder if a stream will come shooting out 20 feet from that point and create mini (or not so mini) waterfalls on unsuspecting passerbys.

[lofter1]

^ :D

I wonder if Mr. Childs has figured out a solution to that epic occurrence -- which would be quite fantastic to see.

[TREPYE]

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Sterile; NYC's antigrime.

[Derek2k3]

Old 7WTC on 9/11 looking down Vesey.

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jphillipobrien2006 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yojimbot/3904379987/sizes/o/in/photostream/)

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[HoveringCheesecake]

Good grief... that entire set. Only the fifth person I've seen with photos of the immediate aftermath after the first crash. I'm sure as time goes on people will scan their own pictures as he did, but what a horrific sight.

[Derek2k3]

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Alan Miles NYC (http://www.flickr.com/photos/alanrmiles/3405474639/sizes/l/in/pool-18964236@N00/)

[Alonzo-ny]

Doesn't get better than that.

[TREPYE]

Castle in the sky. Splendid view.

[DKNY617]

February 4th, 2010

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[Sherpa]

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[BrooklynRider]

That was one hideous building.

[lofter1]

Aaahhh, the 80's :eek:

[dtolman]

Two shots from many I took last night
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WTC 7 looms like a ghost above WTC 1 - a sight that won't last long

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Looking up at WTC 7 at dusk

[Gulcrapek]

Brilliant blue

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[ShaMegro]

I had an interview with Moody's in this building a few months ago. The elevators have some sort of new system where inside the elevator there are no buttons at all, instead when you walk into the building you enter the floor you want to go to in a panel in the lobby, and it tells you which elevator to take based on the most efficient grouping of what floor everyone is going to. It was pretty impressive.

[BStyles]

It also eliminates the phrase "I got lost".

[NYatKNIGHT]

Our building has those elevators, and though they do help overall it is irritating when an elevator door opens before your designated car comes. Sorry, this one's not for you! What's nice is that nobody attempts to try to get in after the doors begin to close.

[JSsocal]

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[ablarc]

^ Noir.

[GreenwichBoy]

9927

[Sherpa]

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[westmc9th]

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[jayden]

I must admit I had my doubts when I first saw the design for this building, but it turned out to be one beautiful addition to the Downtown skyline.

By the way, what percentage of the building is occupied as of now?

[DKfreddy]

I had an interview with Moody's in this building a few months ago. The elevators have some sort of new system where inside the elevator there are no buttons at all, instead when you walk into the building you enter the floor you want to go to in a panel in the lobby, and it tells you which elevator to take based on the most efficient grouping of what floor everyone is going to. It was pretty impressive.

The Marriott Marquis in Times Square has the same system. It's a bit weird.

[BrooklynLove]

Similar system at the NYT building as well.

[BStyles]

Yeah, they're definitely trying to eliminate the phrase "I got lost". Makes it hard for actors to make up excuses when shooting New York movies.

[Derek2k3]

The blue glow from 7 WTC.

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Looking the other way:
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[Merry]

I like the one on the left best ;).

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[Derek2k3]

Old 7WTC under construction.

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[Daquan13]

It's just too bad that those 3 towers are wiped off the face of the earth and gone forever!!

[arcman210]

(Don't know if this has been mentioned anywhere else on the forum)

I just saw a commercial (while watching the Knicks game, so on legit TV... insert joke here) for an organization that is questioning the collapse of WTC 7, featuring 4 family members as spokespersons. It makes me really sick to think that September 11 conspiracies have reached the point of cable TV network advertising.

[STR]

^Yeah, well someone should tell those people that just because someone you cared about died, that doesn't mean you're not an idiot and can't make yourself look stupid on national TV.

[capitol21]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5097/5425897934_5d97d5cf6c_b.jpgwow the new 1wtc has almost reached 7wtc time goes by fast!

[capitol21]

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[capitol21]

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[capitol21]

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[capitol21]

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[capitol21]

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[capitol21]

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[capitol21]

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[capitol21]

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[macreator]

Gosh, the 7 WTC skin looks simply ethereal.

[JSsocal]

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My photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/34734039@N04/

[mariab]

^Now that looks ethereal. Why is 7 finished so much sooner than the others, besides the number of floors?

[Derek2k3]

Your SF pics are nice, makes me want to go back. You should create a thread on them.

[capitol21]

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[capitol21]

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[capitol21]

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[capitol21]

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[capitol21]

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[capitol21]

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[capitol21]

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[capitol21]

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[Sherpa]

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[lofter1]

Just saw a TV ad for this:

http://rememberbuilding7.org/

Of course there is a clickable link upfront for donations.

[arcman210]

Jeez, they're starting with that again?

[lofter1]

Commemoration of Death + Destruction = Opportunity to Raise $$

See THIS (http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24803) for another example.

[arcman210]

^That was more humoring than annoying, I think I heard Norman Greenbaum a dozen times on May 21.

I just hope these 'truthers' don't show up come September and ruin an otherwise special and meaningful day. It's not a day that calls for any comic relief.

[BStyles]

It's been a while:
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[Daquan13]

The building has already been rebuilt. Not the same one, but it HAS been replaced. And this crap is still going on - suspicions about how & why the old tower fell. Geez, they need to give it a rest.

[macreator]

Gosh, the new 7 looks so much better than the old hulk. I had forgotten how bulky it was.

[ZippyTheChimp]

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/3505/7wtcfacade06c.th.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/688/7wtcfacade06c.jpg/)

Subtle. The opposite of 4WTC.

[Daquan13]

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7 World Trade Center fully leasedBy STEVE CUOZZO

Last Updated: 11:41 AM, September 19, 2011

Posted: 10:48 AM, September 19, 2011

In a milestone for Downtown in the post-9/11 era, 7 World Trade Center — built by Larry Silverstein in the face of withering criticism and claims it would be a "white elephant" — is now 100 percent leased.

Financial firm MSCI, now based at 1 Chase Plaza, has leased 125,000 square feet in the tower’s top floors, sources told The Post.
The 20-year lease means that the 52-story, 1.7 million square-foot skyscraper across from the actual WTC site is now full except for a few tiny spaces almost too negligible to count.

The tower, built without any presigned tenants, opened in 2006. It gradually drew tenants paying the highest prices ever paid downtown — several above $70 a square foot. The building’s occupants include German bank WestLB and Moody’s.



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[BigMac]

Downtown Express
November 9, 2011

Tower 7 reaches capacity; artists to vacate by 2012

By Aline Reynolds

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Marcus Robinson and five other working artists must vacate the studio space at 7 W.T.C. by January.

For years, real estate developer Larry Silverstein has allowed artists to paint, draw and photograph on the 48th floor of 7 World Trade Center free of charge — a tradition dating back the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s artists-in-residence program in the former Twin Towers.

The time has come, however, for the artists to vacate their beloved studio space due to the recent acquisition by global investment firm M.S.C.I., which signed a 20-year lease in September for floors 47 to 49 of 7 W.T.C. With the the M.S.C.I. lease, Silverstein’s state-of-the-art tower has reached full occupancy. The six artists that have set up shop in the makeshift studio can remain there until the new year when M.S.C.I. will begin laying out its offices starting in January. The firm expects to move into the space by mid-2012, according to Dara McQuillan, senior vice president of marketing and communications at Silverstein Properties.

“We did have a lot of success with the program — not just with artists but with photographers documenting the [W.T.C.] site for many, many years,” said McQuillan at last month’s Community Board 1 World Trade Center Redevelopment Committee meeting.

Since the building opened in 2006, the 48th floor has been used for C.B. 1 meetings, P.S. 89’s “Rafflemania” and other community fundaisers, as well as photo, television and film shoots — some of which will continue to take place on the 10th floor, Silverstein’s marketing center.

“If we’re approached by the right organization,” said McQuillan, “we’ll happily work with them to make whatever event they want to do there a success.”

Meanwhile, McQuillan is hoping to help the artists find another temporary studio at the site or elsewhere in the neighborhood, since “we risk having this interruption in the way the projects are being documented,” he said.

Silverstein said of the forthcoming transformation of the 48th floor, “Art played a hugely important role in the city’s catharsis after 9/11…I was thrilled to be able to provide space at the top of 7 W.T.C. to [all of the artists]. They have each done an incredible job documenting not only the skyline of New York, but the new skyline of a rebuilt World Trade Center.”

Representational artist Todd Stone, for one, is racing against the clock to complete three of his large oil paintings — two that illustrate 1 W.T.C.’s glass curtain wall and its kaleidoscopic reflections; and one that depicts ant-sized visitors strolling around the National Sept. 11 Memorial plaza from the vantage point of the the 7 W.T.C. studio, which rises 650 feet into the air.

“It’s been an unbelievable opportunity to be there as the 9/11 Memorial took shape in the rush to the 10th anniversary of 9/11,” said Stone.

While at the studio, Stone also completed his series, “Witness / Downtown Rising,” a collection of 20 watercolor paintings that chronicle Lower Manhattan’s shifting skyline since 9/11.

Stone, who painted the events of Sept. 11 from his fifth floor walk-up apartment on Thomas Street in Tribeca, feels privileged to have had what he calls a “God’s-eye” view of the site while working in Tower 7 since 2009.

As a longtime Downtown resident having endured 9/11, painting in the “jewel” of studio space, Stone said, proved to be an especially cathartic experience.

“I never thought I’d feel anything but sad walking Downtown,” said Stone. “When I walk up to the 48th floor, it makes me feel good. I’ve reconnected here with the great strength and resilience of the city.”

And, even though he hasn’t yet secured a new work studio for the new year, Stone is resigned to vacate the place he has worked so intensively in for the last six months.

“The day was always coming,” he said of leaving Tower 7. “I’m being blown out of there, and there’s nothing I can do about it, but I’ll land on my feet.”

Former Downtown financiers Robert and Victoria Zoellner purchased Stone’s pieces from “Witness / Downtown Rising” with the intention of putting the art series on public display, according to Stone.

“My goal is for it to be a traveling exhibit hosted by the [National Sept. 11] Memorial, so the story could be told around the country,” said Stone.

Prior to working in the 48th floor studio beginning in 2006, Marcus Robinson, an urban-focused painter, videographer and photographer, documented on canvas and camera the construction of Tower 7.

Little did Robinson know that his subject would become the artist’s full-time workplace a few short years later.

Robinson’s W.TC. film, “Rebuilding,” brings the Ground Zero construction zone to life with a slideshow of animated drawings and time-lapse footage of workers in action.

“The film essentially wants to champion the spirit of the working people — something quintessential in all of us,” mused Robinson. “It’s like an ancient tale about the amazing spirit overcoming adversity, and setting it against the backdrop of something like the Great Depression.”

The 9/11 Memorial and Museum commissioned Robinson to do a film installation, “Tribute in Light,” for its permanent collection — which will be on view at the museum following its opening next fall.

Robinson hopes to find homes for “Benediction” and his other large-scale paintings in lobbies of Lower Manhattan buildings, but hasn’t yet reached out to interested parties to realize his wish.

“Part of the excitement is not totally thinking of the end result, but just enjoying the process of drawing and painting,” said Robinson.

Robinson, who lives in an apartment that overlooks the W.T.C. site, has his eyes on a ground-floor, live-work apartment on Washington Street. Asked what he felt of parting ways with space in 7 W.T.C., Robinson replied, “I’m quite a nostalgic person, but I think it’s good to be in the flow of life.”

However no conventional artist studio, Robinson admitted, could create the same, visceral effect as does the raw, unadulterated concrete walls of his current studio space.

“Marks like this inspire me for the painting,” said Robinson as he glided his fingers along a surveyor’s mark etched into the concrete wall of the 48th floor. “This space is, beyond any shadow of doubt, I think, one of the most amazing spaces in the world.”

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[stache]

That painting in the photo is not so good.

[DarrylStrawberry]

Some shots from the 10th floor where the World Trade Center Deign and Construction offices are. The presentation last night was thin on new information. The models of the buildings were great and the view of the memorial are obviously fantastic. Sorry for the crummy pics, I only had my cell phone camera and it was raining.

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[lofter1]

Good to see that Larry is keeping 99 Church on his plate of things to come.

[DMAG]

No glimmers of hope on WTC 3 at the meeting?

[USSManhattan]

In another thread, I believe DS said that nothing new was revealed about 2 or 3.

[DarrylStrawberry]

Nothing explicitly new about 2 and 3. they hinted that talks are ongoing with potential tenants that would allow them to meet their leasing obligation for tower 3, but nothing specific. Tower 2 development seems likely to be dormant until 2016 at a minimum.