Reply With Quotelugdus: thanks for that info and image.
Do you have a link where that image and other info is available?
I think BoA, for security reasons of being a financial firm and therefore a possible target, probably would prefer to have the sidewalk shed entrance rather than an entrance built into the building either at the corner or within the new thru-block passageway they're building.
lugdus: thanks for that info and image.
Do you have a link where that image and other info is available?
I found this at http://www.bankofamerica.com/newsroo...0040802.01.htm
Public Amenities
With approximately three times the public circulation space required by an as-of-right high-rise office building, the Bank of America Tower will accommodate and contribute to the surrounding pedestrian and transit circulation. Public amenities will include widened sidewalks, public street furniture and an urban garden room located at 43rd Street and Sixth Avenue, which serves as an inviting extension of Bryant Park.
The design also incorporates a new glass-enclosed subway entrance with wider stairs and an elevator at 42nd Street on the southeast corner of Sixth Avenue. An underground pedestrian walkway on the north side of 42nd Street will link the B, D and F subway lines to the Times Square station and a new mid-block subway entrance on 42nd Street will connect to the below-grade walkway, in addition to a special through-block passageway featuring a "Broadway Wall of Fame" with interactive information kiosks.
Hey guys. I found this at emporis.com
I apologize if it's been posted before, anyhow, it's interesting
to look at anyway.
Those sketeches almost make it looks like the old Libeskind World Trade Center design.
Yes please never insult BOA like that again! Ever!
It even has a wind turbine....I see a lawsuit.
December 2005 --->
"Liebeskind wins case over stolen BOA tower design, construction halts"
lugdus: Do you have a link to where the original of this image can be found...Originally Posted by lugdus
http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/at...achmentid=1116
I walked by this site today and the first steel has risen above the street level at the far northwest corner (between the Henry Miller Theatre facade and the Conde Nast building).
I wouldn't be surprised if by the end of September that whole end of the building is rising above the street.
The eastern half of the site is still in the process of having the first concrete pad poured. The area that abuts Sixth Avenue is still dirt.
lofter1 - you may be right. I stuck my head thru a door on 42nd street yesterday and got this shot before being kicked out.
^ I might have been too optimistic when I said the end of September. There's only one week to go and your photo pretty much shows what I saw last week.
But maybe these guys will kick butt this week and get some hard steel up in the air.
Yeah, good shot, but only one worker there
They should've taken the approach the NYTIMES Tower did. Where they finished excavations on the tower portion first so that the tower could rise which logically takes longer to finish and they could build the lowrise section later.
Hi there,
I haven't posted in a while, but I've been hoping for update pics on this thread and I haven't seen too many recent ones. Believe it or not my mom has reported more on the progress of this building than this site has (she works in Times Sq. Tower, but knows nothing about contruction). I would post myself but I'm at college in Pittsburgh.
Full-time New Yorkers get out there! Supposedly there is quite a bit more steel activity than before.
Thanx
No pics, but I walked by the site late this afternoon and indeed steel has risen above street level (albeit just a foot or two above) on pretty much the entire western end of the building. The concrete is still being poured for the slab on the eastern end of the site, so it's be a while before steel starts to rise there.
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