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| Designs for three towers at the WTC site in New York revealed  Governor George E. Pataki, New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, World Trade Center Developer Larry A. Silverstein and architects Lord Norman Foster, Lord Richard Rogers and Fumihiko Maki gathered at 7 World Trade Center to unveil designs for the three World Trade Center towers that will rise along the site’s eastern edge, forming what will be the heart of a revitalized Downtown Manhattan’s retail, transportation and office corridor.Foster and Partners has designed a 78-story tower at 200 Greenwich. It will contain 143,000 square feet of retail (95,000 square feet at or above street level), 60 office floors that total 2.3 million square feet, four trading floors and a 65-foot high office lobby. Arranged around a central cruciform core, the tower comprises four blocks containing light filled, flexible, column free office floors that rise to the 59th floor, whereupon the glass façades are sheared off at an angle to address the Memorial Park. The 71-story 175 Greenwich tower, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership, will rise to 1,155 feet above street level. The tower will include 133,000 square feet of retail (73,000 square feet at or above street level); 54 office floors (2.1 million square feet) and five trading floors. The 61-story 150 Greenwich Street tower, designed by Fumihiko Maki and Maki and Associates, is located on the site bounded by Greenwich Street to the west, Church Street to the east, Cortlandt Street to the north and Liberty Street to the south. The 947-foot tall building will include 53 office floors (1.8 million square feet), as well as five floors of retail, three of which are at or above grade. Silverstein Properties has committed to ensuring that each of the three towers will achieve at least a gold rating, as did the recently completed 7WTC, under the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. The three towers also will incorporate a wide range of life safety features that go far beyond New York City building code. According to the new World Trade Center timetable, all three towers will be completed by 2012. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Construction News :: home page |