Reply With QuoteThere should be one more level of vertical steel after this current jump that's taking place.
I was hoping 4 WTC would rise a few more floors. As is, from my window it's almost, but not quite, clearing the top of the hulking telecom building on Thomas Street.
I was keeping fingers crossed that from my viewpoint it would overtake that thing and etch a new mirror in the distance. But it looks like I'll only get to see a wee slice of the angled eastern facade. But I'm still optimistic ...
There should be one more level of vertical steel after this current jump that's taking place.
Last edited by arcman210; June 16th, 2012 at 02:22 PM.
This morning
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That glass is looks TIGHT: precision fitted to very minute dimensional tolerances. VERY Japanese. HeHe.......
This one may have topped out today.
KPI TV - From the North.
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Great quality glass.
According to diagrams we've seen, I believe there's one more level of steel coming after this. Would be interesting if both towers topped out around the same time.
Last edited by arcman210; June 22nd, 2012 at 09:20 AM.
http://observer.com/2012/06/more-tha...1-world-trade/
More than Zero: 4 World Trade Center Will Top Out on Monday, a Day or So Ahead of 1 World Trade
By Matt Chaban 6/21 6:23pm
Last week, President Obama visited 1 World Trade Center for an update on the project’s progress. He gave a speech and signed the beam that would top the country’s maybe-tallest tower. It would still be some time until the beam was hoisted into place.
Meanwhile, on the other end of the site, 4 World Trade Center was quietly rising. Today, Silverstein Properties announced that the tower will have its topping out ceremony this Monday, when the building reaches its final height of 974 feet.
What about 1 World Trade Center? The Port Authority did not respond to requests for comment as to when its topping out ceremony might be, but a World Trade Center source said it could come as early as Tuesday.
When building buildings, especially symbolic ones, every little milestone tends to be freighted with attention. The building reaches street level. The building is halfway. It has its first glass. It has reached a hundred stories. It is taller than any other.
This is ignoring dozens of other benchmarks, no doubt. Whether we want to or not, no one can help but care deeply about these projects.
But in the construction industry, only three really count: groundbreaking, topping out, opening. We are about to get two of those at the most watched construction project since the Tower of Babel. Does it matter who gets there first? With their varying heights, timelines, designs, delays, developers, interests and complexities, it would be a mistake to compare these two just because they are a few hundred yards apart and are the remnants of the same terrorist attack.
If anything, this is a happy coincidence, another moment of celebration at a site where once there was only mourning, another step closer to the World Trade Center just being another piece of New York again.
Looks plenty humid.
Why is some of the steel up top painted grey and other steel is raw?
Doesn't seem to be any pattern or sense as to which is which.
Should be 3 stories of wind screen about this, and I don't think they count as structural. If that's the case, this building will actually appear to be more than 1000 ft from the ground.
I'm not 100% sure on this, but I believe this is the beginning of the wind screen. The western half of the steel (greenish-gray painted section) might two floors of that, while the eastern half may house indoor mechanical equipment. One final story of windscreen could top this. But I guess we'll wait and see for sure.
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