Industry News
Sept 6, 2007
By: Paul Rosta, Senior Associate Editor
Days before the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, a bevy of officials offered an upbeat progress report on the site’s redevelopment and unveiled the latest designs for three of the five towers expected to rise at the site by early in the next decade.
"The design phase is now complete and the construction contracting phase is under way," Janno Lieber, director of World Trade Center development for Silverstein Properties Inc., the site's developer, said in a statement this morning. By next February, Silverstein expects to award construction contracts with an aggregate value of several billion dollars. The firm plans to kick off construction for the projects known as Towers 3 (pictured) and 4 early next year, and on Tower 2 next summer.
That schedule hinges on the expected completion by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey of a 1,200-foot-long section new slurry walls on the eastern side of the site. Popularly known as the "bathtub," the new walls protect the site from the intrusion of the Hudson River and strengthen the structures damaged in the 9/11 attack.
The update provided some positive news for the World Trade Center, which has recently been dogged by the month-long controversy over a fire that broke out last month during demolition of the former Deutsche Bank building. Two firefighters died in the blaze, but Port Authority officials insisted yesterday that delays in the deconstruction of the damaged tower would not slow progress at the site, according to published reports.
Officials also unveiled new images for the three towers. Foster and Partners, led by Norman Foster, is designing the tallest of the three, a 79-story, 1,270-foot-tall building for the Tower 2 site located at 200 Greenwich St. Topped by an 80-foot-tall antenna, Tower 2 will include 2.3 million square feet of office space on 60 of the 79 floors, four trading floors, and 138,000 square feet of retail. Foster's design calls for the building’s glass facades to be sheared off at an angle at the 59th floor, creating a distinctive appearance for the upper floors.
Second tallest will be Tower 3, a 1,147-foot-tall building designed by Richard Rogers of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Its 71 stories will include 2.1 million square feet of office space on 54 floors, five trading floors, and 193,000 square feet of retail space.
Rising to 975 feet, Tower 4 will incorporate 1.8 million square feet of office space in its 64 stories and five retail floors. The Port Authority has committed to take about 600,000 square feet of the tower, which is being designed by Fumihiko Maki of Maki and Associates.
By: Paul Rosta, Senior Associate Editor
Days before the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, a bevy of officials offered an upbeat progress report on the site’s redevelopment and unveiled the latest designs for three of the five towers expected to rise at the site by early in the next decade.
"The design phase is now complete and the construction contracting phase is under way," Janno Lieber, director of World Trade Center development for Silverstein Properties Inc., the site's developer, said in a statement this morning. By next February, Silverstein expects to award construction contracts with an aggregate value of several billion dollars. The firm plans to kick off construction for the projects known as Towers 3 (pictured) and 4 early next year, and on Tower 2 next summer.
That schedule hinges on the expected completion by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey of a 1,200-foot-long section new slurry walls on the eastern side of the site. Popularly known as the "bathtub," the new walls protect the site from the intrusion of the Hudson River and strengthen the structures damaged in the 9/11 attack.
The update provided some positive news for the World Trade Center, which has recently been dogged by the month-long controversy over a fire that broke out last month during demolition of the former Deutsche Bank building. Two firefighters died in the blaze, but Port Authority officials insisted yesterday that delays in the deconstruction of the damaged tower would not slow progress at the site, according to published reports.
Officials also unveiled new images for the three towers. Foster and Partners, led by Norman Foster, is designing the tallest of the three, a 79-story, 1,270-foot-tall building for the Tower 2 site located at 200 Greenwich St. Topped by an 80-foot-tall antenna, Tower 2 will include 2.3 million square feet of office space on 60 of the 79 floors, four trading floors, and 138,000 square feet of retail. Foster's design calls for the building’s glass facades to be sheared off at an angle at the 59th floor, creating a distinctive appearance for the upper floors.
Second tallest will be Tower 3, a 1,147-foot-tall building designed by Richard Rogers of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Its 71 stories will include 2.1 million square feet of office space on 54 floors, five trading floors, and 193,000 square feet of retail space.
Rising to 975 feet, Tower 4 will incorporate 1.8 million square feet of office space in its 64 stories and five retail floors. The Port Authority has committed to take about 600,000 square feet of the tower, which is being designed by Fumihiko Maki of Maki and Associates.
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