Tag Archives: WTC

1WTC Passes ESB

As of today, the tallest building in New York City is One World Trade Center. The milestone is a preliminary one. Workers are still adding floors to the so-called “Freedom Tower” and it isn’t expected to reach its full height for at least another year, at which point it is likely to be declared the tallest building in the U.S., …

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Time Lapse: One World Trade Center

Starting with site preparation in 2004.

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New WTC Nearly Capped Off

A couple of weeks ago One World Trade Center reached its 100th of 104 floors. The Port Authority has a live-cam of the construction, although at this writing the rain has made it useless.

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Tweet Of The Day

Follow WTC Progress for some nut-shriveling photos of steelworkers walking the beams at a thousand feet up.

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What Does This Look Like?

A skyscraper project in Korea has some New Yorkers fuming. An architecture firm said Friday it “regrets” a bizarre design for two high-rises in Korea reminds people of the twin towers exploding on 9/11. A mockup shows two soaring skyscrapers connected in the middle by a “pixelated cloud” that evoked the clouds of debris that erupted from the iconic World …

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Photo Of The Day

The Village Voice’s Steven Thrasher notes that the half-built One World Trade is (for the moment) providing New Yorkers with a spooky flashback as viewed from uptown with the Trump Soho tower. Of course, these towers are much lower than the original twin towers. The Trump SoHo is only 46 stories, and it’s not even that close to the WTC …

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Delivered: Hugging Towers

Yesterday afternoon I delivered Hugging Towers to the administrators of the World Trade Center Memorial & Museum. (Interestingly, their offices are in the building owned by the company that is allowing the protesters to camp at Zuccotti Park.) Hugging Towers was received with appropriate reverence and after I signed a couple of legal documents surrendering ownership, we had a nice …

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Afternoon View – One World Trade Center

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Hugging Towers Update

In early May of this year I blogged the following: One week after 9/11, I rescued the above unsigned painting from the front wall of the elementary school on my Chelsea street. It was one of hundreds affixed there in what doubtlessly was a group therapy project for the children. A violent rainstorm had just begun when I removed it …

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The Onion Spoofs The “WTC Cross”

Just in from The Onion. Despite the surprising coincidence of finding a perfectly formed swastika amidst the broken girders of the Twin Towers, 9/11 memorial curators have opted not to display the symbol, choosing instead to leave it in the storage facility where it has been located for the past 10 years. “On the one hand, it’s pretty miraculous that …

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Height Comparison

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Atheists File Challenge to WTC Cross

The American Atheists filed suit in New York court this week, seeking to have a cross removed from the World Trade Center museum. The “cross” was recovered from the tens of thousands of identical metal “crosses” that comprised the destroyed buildings. But because this one happened to land in an upright position, Christianists have seized up this bit of salvage …

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Conde Nast Inks WTC Deal

Aspirational magazine publisher Conde Nast has signed the long-awaited deal to assume over one million square feet of office space in One World Trade Center, which when completed will be the tallest skyscraper in the nation. The lease marked the largest single tenant to be brought into Lower Manhattan in years. The project is being developed by the Port Authority …

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And The Conde Nasties Weep

After weeks of rumors, today the New York Times confirms that Conde Nast is ready to ink a deal to move its fleet of aspirational magazines and their accompanying army of snooty clackers away from their present midtown location and into One World Trade Center. Where they will be miles away from anything remotely hip! Oh noes! The deal to …

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