Tower 1 at Night Again

Awesome pictures man!

stunning

Tower 1 at Night Again ???s

Hey..

Besides the steel work..is there finish work going on on the lower floors simultaneously? The pathway station pics you posted recently were amazing also.

How many are working on-site?

and

have they found a solution to the skin on the lower floors since the Chinese glass did not work?

and why is it looking like the French flag? 😐 or is this photoshopped..

Tower 1 at Night Again ???s

> Besides the steel work..is there finish work going on on the lower floors simultaneously? The pathway station pics you posted recently were amazing also.
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> How many are working on-site?
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> and
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> have they found a solution to the skin on the lower floors since the Chinese glass did not work?

FWIW, from the NY Post:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/world_trade_center_offers_warm_welcome_98qnSJ2LCfZ3KTpBFJpTSJ

And this from a recent NY Times article:

Rather than being clad in panels of prismatic glass, the 185-foot-high base of the tower will be covered in hundreds of pairs of 13-foot vertical glass fins set against horizontal bands of eight-inch-wide stainless-steel slats. The corners of the base will lose what was supposed to have been a gentle but distinctive outward slope.

It consists of an aluminum screen, in front of which are horizontal stainless-steel slats, in front of which are rows of fins, arranged in pairs, that are made of laminated glass with a reflective surface on one side and a translucent, acid-etched matte finish on the other.

In the bottom and top rows, the fins will be “open,” flat against the facade. In the intermediate rows, the fins will “close” to form shallow V shapes, at angles ranging from 7.5 degrees to 60 degrees. The slats will be visible through the interstices.

Just behind the fins will be LED arrays whose light will be reflected outward by the slats. That could open the possibility of enormous multicolored lighting compositions. But Mr. Foye said the Port Authority would be “very measured and circumspect” in the kind of illumination it allowed at the tower, keeping in mind its location directly north of the 9/11 Memorial. “It will not be lit in a rainbow or a plethora of colors,” he said.

Perhaps the greatest architectural casualty of the redesigned facade are the inclined — or chamfered — corners of the base, which have already been constructed at the intended 3.8-degree angle, forming enormous, slender isosceles triangles in steel and concrete. These corners will be squared off by the cladding.

> and why is it looking like the French flag? 😐 or is this photoshopped..

The electricians and laborers wire up the lights for holidays (on their own time, BTW), so this is the red white and blue scenario for July 4.