7 World Trade Center - by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

**BigMac** · July 27th, 2007, 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by BrooklynRider

Nice photos Big Mac!

I found them on Flickr and I meant to document that; problem corrected. I wish I did take those pictures, though.

**GVNY** · July 27th, 2007, 09:46 PM

Originally Posted by ZippyTheChimp

Am I the only one who's very disappointed in this building?

Well, you have every right to be disappointed. I am too.

7WTC is hardly a work of architecture. Designers just filled the block it sits on with office space, raised the tower to X number of floors, and sheathed it in glass.

That is not architecture. That is standard fare. That is another day at the office.

**Citytect** · July 28th, 2007, 11:53 AM

I hate this building. For some reason it offends me personally. A building should be more than just nice glass, in my opinion.

**BrooklynRider** · July 29th, 2007, 02:24 AM

Oh dear, Citytect. If 7WTC offends you, then 10 Barclay is going to reach out, slap you in the face and call you names. 10 Barclay is a bad, bad building.

**Citytect** · July 29th, 2007, 03:41 PM

^Not so much. I don't like 10 Barclay either, but it doesn't irk me in the same way 7 does. The two buildings are equally as bad, in my opinion. I guess what really bothers me is how overrated I feel 7WTC is. That's not a problem with 10 Barclay, because no one pretends to like it.

**ablarc** · July 31st, 2007, 06:37 AM

^ Bugs me too. Overpraised.

**NewYorkDoc** · July 31st, 2007, 02:29 PM

It's praised for showing a commitment to downtown most of the time, not really what it looks like...which is a box.

**Eugenious** · July 31st, 2007, 02:45 PM

Love it, cold and unassuming just like the rest of downtown.

**wns808** · August 20th, 2007, 01:03 PM

Originally Posted by ManhattanKnight

As for the inside, what's going on here (52nd floor ceiling)?

Maybe the 52nd floor and a few other floors are yet to be leased?

Looks like the "Perfect Stranger" movie is coming to DVD and I heard something about some scenes being shot inside 7 WTC?

**LeCom** · August 20th, 2007, 04:59 PM

^Larry Silverstein is in that movie.

**LeCom** · August 20th, 2007, 05:00 PM

Originally Posted by Lemonsoda

Derek, wonderful shot that makes WTC 7 look positively ethereal. I wonder how the ESB would come off clad in such glass?

That would be a great idea indeed, in my opinion, a building with such massing and facade; same with 7WTC clad in classic Art Deco.

**NoyokA** · August 20th, 2007, 05:21 PM

It would probably look something like this:

**BigMac** · August 21st, 2007, 03:18 PM

Originally Posted by Stern

It would probably look something like this:

[img]http://photoblog.parella.com/images/300_torre_latinoamericana.jpg[img]

A black, white, and red postmodern box? I shudder at the thought.

**NoyokA** · September 14th, 2007, 03:18 PM

Originally Posted by BigMac

A black, white, and red postmodern box? I shudder at the thought.

Me too.

I went from liking this building at the proposal stage, to hating it during construction, now I love it, it's one of my favorites in the city.

SOM photogallery:

http://www.som.com/content.cfm/7_world_trade_center