Daquan13

I didn't see a thread on this transportation project, so I thought that I'd start one in this section.

Has anyone been following the constr. of this project as of late? I just saw pics of some of the pre-fabbed columns being installed for the underground corridor which will run under West Street and connect with Battery Park and the WFC / GST.

Looks like that part is also going smoothly! Can't wait to see it when it's done!!

javier.med.qqta

yeah you are right

TalB

Among the Hard Angles, a Few New Curves - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog
July 11, 2008, 4:41 pm

Among the Hard Angles, a Few New Curves

By David W. Dunlap


Like the rest of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, the east-west underground connector to Battery Park City -- depicted here in a 2004 rendering by the architect Santiago Calatrava -- would be framed in sinuously curving arches.

Photo: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey


On Tuesday, workers installed the first of those prefabricated arches at the west end of the connector.

Photo: David W. Dunlap/The New York Times


The arches are made of steel and covered in fire-retardant paint.

Photo: David W. Dunlap/The New York Times


Looking west along the column line toward the Park Row Building, once the tallest in New York, and the steeple of St. Paul's Chapel.

Photo: David W. Dunlap/The New York Times


Workers guiding a bundle of steel sections into place on the floor of the future concourse, after the material was dropped down by crane.

Photo: David W. Dunlap/The New York Times


Detail of an arch, with the Goldman Sachs headquarters in the background, under construction at Battery Park City. The connector will run under West Street, linking Battery Park City to the World Trade Center.

Photo: David W. Dunlap/The New York Times


On this side of the column line will be a row of retail spaces, paralleling the pedestrian passageway.

Photo: David W. Dunlap/The New York Times


Forty-six more arches will complete this part of the transportation hub, seen with 7 World Trade Center rising in the background at left.

Photo: David W. Dunlap/The New York Times

The first of the Calatrava curves have started to soften the spartan landscape of ground zero.

Since it was unveiled in 2004, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub by Santiago Calatrava and the Downtown Design Partnership has stood out among the redevelopment projects because of its sinuous forms, inside and out. Animate analogies come easily to mind. The exterior looks like a bird about to take flight. Or like the perfectly preserved skeleton of an abstract stegosaurus. Some interior spaces look almost as if one were floating through the rib cage of some gleaming gargantuan beast.

But these dreamlike possibilities existed only in small scale and two dimensions until Tuesday, when workers set the first of the contoured arches in place on columns lining what is to be the east-west underground connector between the transportation hub and the World Financial Center at Battery Park City. The effect was striking. And surprising.

The arches are prefabricated off site and covered in a fire-retardant paint. At the site, they are set atop rounded steel columns. All told, 47 of them will be installed along the underground connector. This pedestrian passageway, under Fulton Street, will be lined with stores on the north side and a solid wall on the south side that abuts the memorial museum.

It is unclear today just how many of Mr. Calatrava’s undulating ceilings will survive the re-engineering that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey must undertake to bring the project into line with its $2.5 billion budget. But it can now be said for certain that the new World Trade Center, having gone through many twists, will have at least several dozen curves.

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Daquan13

Why did you post the same article twice? Is there some info missing in one of them?

Just curious.

Reignman

It must be a technical mistake, fixed.

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