WTC Transit Hub - by Santiago Calatrava

**uakoops** · March 11th, 2012, 01:45 AM

@325, what are those big flat plates in the last picture for?

**uakoops** · March 11th, 2012, 06:57 PM

I see pieces for a DCM climbing crane sitting in the Hub area. Where is that going? T2 or T3? (my guess is T3, they need to jump the cranes that are there before they can go any higher)

**lofter1** · March 22nd, 2012, 10:57 AM

Shaping up (two shots from yesterday before the fog moved in) ...

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**yepole** · March 23rd, 2012, 09:53 AM

It looks like we'll be having third tower crane on the hub site soon! Take a look at the temp structure near the east wall.
http://www.video-monitoring.com/cons...itv/silver.htm

**uakoops** · March 23rd, 2012, 10:18 AM

Ah, I think I see what's going on now...
Is that a third one or will it replace the one near it?

**Jyminee** · March 23rd, 2012, 12:51 PM

Is this the structure you're talking about?

**uakoops** · March 23rd, 2012, 01:17 PM

Yes. The red thing is part of one of those Federated/DCM crane climbers like those on T1 and T4.

**RoldanTTLB** · March 23rd, 2012, 03:47 PM

Mmm, kangaroo crane. Maybe if we're lucky it's actually getting assembled for tower 3 (there's no reason that the hub would need a kangaroo crane). That'd be nifty if the current crane tossed it into the other half of the core to rise with the building...

**ZippyTheChimp** · March 23rd, 2012, 05:02 PM

There would have been news about an anchor tenant being signed for tower three long before any construction contracts for tower three.

**NYatKNIGHT** · March 23rd, 2012, 07:16 PM

The new crane will move back and forth on a track inside the oculus at the current 274 level, replacing the two that are there now.

**BStyles** · March 24th, 2012, 02:04 AM

The WTC must be one of those sites that have the most uses for tower cranes. This one will just be phenomenal.

**TREPYE** · March 25th, 2012, 01:12 PM

Originally Posted by antinimby

Yale University architecture professor Vincent Scully:
"One entered the city like a god. One scuttles in now like a rat."

Well, Penn Station still remains under a toilet bowl (not thanks to useless developers and bureaucrats), but I guess with this new hub we have regained our transportation pantheon and hence out godly status...

**Sherpa** · April 1st, 2012, 11:26 PM

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**uakoops** · April 2nd, 2012, 10:44 AM

Looks like it has a much shorter boom now. Does the crane have less capacity when it is on that sliding base?

**Sal Schiano** · April 2nd, 2012, 12:31 PM

Probably has more capacity since it can move closer to what it's lifting. Must of been less $ to make it on the rails rather then bring in a larger crane. There's also a different boom head on it and shorter boom which means it's in a heavy lift configuration