One World Trade Center
October 26, 2014 8:33 AM Subscribe
Tomorrow, One World Trade Center will begin the process of opening its doors for the first time, and sometime next week, the employees of Condé Nast will move in.
See How One World Trade Center Changes Floor-to-Floor
Subsequent tenants will include Servcorp, KiDS Creative, BMB Group, and Legends Hospitality. A three-level public observation deck on floors 100 to 102, approximately 1,250 feet up, will open in 2015.
See How One World Trade Center Changes Floor-to-Floor
Subsequent tenants will include Servcorp, KiDS Creative, BMB Group, and Legends Hospitality. A three-level public observation deck on floors 100 to 102, approximately 1,250 feet up, will open in 2015.
I really hope they don't have to walk through the museum hallway thing everyday to catch the elevator for work.
posted by oceanjesse at 8:41 AM on October 26, 2014
posted by oceanjesse at 8:41 AM on October 26, 2014
The 9/11 memorial and museum is on the 16th floor. No one has to walk through a memorial in the lobby. The Observation gallery will have an installation about the rebuilding of the WTC.
posted by Ideefixe at 9:35 AM on October 26, 2014
posted by Ideefixe at 9:35 AM on October 26, 2014
I'm not thrilled with the design, but I'm glad that on a clear day you'll once again be able to see top of the tallest building in New York from my aunt's porch in New Jersey.
posted by ob1quixote at 11:30 AM on October 26, 2014
posted by ob1quixote at 11:30 AM on October 26, 2014
If opening doors is a "process," I think the design is somehow flawed.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 11:36 AM on October 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Kirth Gerson at 11:36 AM on October 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
I hope it is well documented by a team of New Yorker cartoonists, because it sounds like the most New-Yorker-Magazine-ish event of the century so far.
posted by oneswellfoop at 11:38 AM on October 26, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by oneswellfoop at 11:38 AM on October 26, 2014 [2 favorites]
AlonzoMosleyFBI, they're moving out of their own (formerly) named tower. Incidentally, that's about the same square footage that Morgan Stanley occupied in the Twin Towers; they seem to have been the largest tenant at the end.
Ideefixe, I have no idea what you mean by a museum on the 16th floor; you're linking to the website for the 9/11 Memorial itself, which is on the footprint of the Twin Towers, across the (former) Fulton St. from the site of the new 1 WTC. Nobody has to walk through the memorial to get into 1 WTC. The lobby is quite different from the Twin Towers' lobbies, of course, and like anything else it bears unmistakable influence of the attacks with its blast-resistant walls. But I suspect the "hallway thing" oceanjesse means is something that is part of the memorial itself.
posted by dhartung at 11:51 AM on October 26, 2014 [2 favorites]
Ideefixe, I have no idea what you mean by a museum on the 16th floor; you're linking to the website for the 9/11 Memorial itself, which is on the footprint of the Twin Towers, across the (former) Fulton St. from the site of the new 1 WTC. Nobody has to walk through the memorial to get into 1 WTC. The lobby is quite different from the Twin Towers' lobbies, of course, and like anything else it bears unmistakable influence of the attacks with its blast-resistant walls. But I suspect the "hallway thing" oceanjesse means is something that is part of the memorial itself.
posted by dhartung at 11:51 AM on October 26, 2014 [2 favorites]
Am I the only one who thinks One World Trade Center looks like a giant extended middle finger?
posted by echocollate at 12:02 PM on October 26, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by echocollate at 12:02 PM on October 26, 2014 [2 favorites]
I hope it is well documented by a team of New Yorker cartoonists, because it sounds like the most New-Yorker-Magazine-ish event of the century so far.
I'm actually kind of pissed that now if I want to submit cartoons I have to go all the way down to Wall Street rather than a brisk walk to Times Square
posted by The Whelk at 12:44 PM on October 26, 2014
If opening doors is a "process," I think the design is somehow flawed.
Send the signal to the engine room, we're going to open this thing!
Begin cycling air through the environment control and airlock!
Initiate ebolatron isolation quarantine mechanisms!
Power up the security cameras!
Alert the guards!
Station the greeters!
FIRE THE WAVE MOTION GUN!!
posted by JHarris at 12:53 PM on October 26, 2014 [3 favorites]
Send the signal to the engine room, we're going to open this thing!
Begin cycling air through the environment control and airlock!
Initiate ebolatron isolation quarantine mechanisms!
Power up the security cameras!
Alert the guards!
Station the greeters!
FIRE THE WAVE MOTION GUN!!
posted by JHarris at 12:53 PM on October 26, 2014 [3 favorites]
It's neat that they've sort of rusticated the first few floors, but why do I get the feeling that that portion of the mockup was made by gluing a bunch of razorblades and wooden coffee stirrers to some chicken wire wrapped around an aquarium full of urine?
posted by Sys Rq at 6:13 PM on October 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Sys Rq at 6:13 PM on October 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
It's so strange that this is finally happening.
Even though it's been 13 years, I kind of thought I'd never see the day come.
posted by evidenceofabsence at 11:36 PM on October 26, 2014 [3 favorites]
Even though it's been 13 years, I kind of thought I'd never see the day come.
posted by evidenceofabsence at 11:36 PM on October 26, 2014 [3 favorites]
I wonder for how long some people will keep (erroneously) referring to the new World Trade Center as the Freedom Towers.
posted by Sticherbeast at 10:02 AM on October 27, 2014
posted by Sticherbeast at 10:02 AM on October 27, 2014
Sticherbeast, the official URL from Silverstein Properties still uses that nomenclature, so a while yet.
posted by dhartung at 12:04 PM on October 27, 2014
posted by dhartung at 12:04 PM on October 27, 2014
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Damn. Go big or go home, I guess.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 8:38 AM on October 26, 2014