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Manhattan - World Trade Center



First, courtesy HNTB Corporation, a view of the original towers to bear the name from New Jersey.


Their ASCE award for outstanding civil engineering achievement takes the form of a model.


Since I started my regular downtown page with an aerial view, here's one in October 2013 featuring the mostly-complete 1 WTC.


Progress on the World Trade Center reconstruction (1 WTC) as of July 2010. I believe the upper limit of scaffolding was 300 to 400 feet up by this point. Another 1,400 to go.


Progress in August 2011, getting steadily closer to topping out. Most buildings can be constructed in less than a year, but this is no mortal building.


The top of 1 WTC in August 2013, looking south over Chelsea Piers.


Looking down from 4 WTC at Liberty Park taking shape in 2015, along with its one building of note, St. Nicholas National Shrine.


Other notable sites south of 4 WTC, from east to west: the twinned US Realty and Trinity Buildings (early Gothic architecture from 1907 and 1905, separated by Thames Street), #114 and #120 Liberty Street (1913 and 1900), West Street Building (1907, with the post-9/11-rebuilt white #130 Cedar Street attached to it).


The future WTC Transportation Hub starts to take shape in the shadow of the skyscrapers. Its complex architecture and engineering arguably wasted millions of dollars and unarguably delayed its completion by years in order to create an iconic structure.


Progress on the Hub as of April 2015, backed by 4 WTC, part of the complex. It opened less than a year later in March 2016.


Bonus coverage of the construction of 3 WTC just south of the Hub. That one took until 2018 to open.

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