150 Greenwich Street
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150 Greenwich Street, with 175 Greenwich Street to the left |
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Location | 150 Greenwich Street New York City, New York, United States |
Status | Under construction |
Groundbreaking | January 2008 |
Estimated completion | 2011 |
Use | Office |
Roof | 975 ft (297 m) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 64 |
Floor area | 1,800,000 sq ft (167,000 sq m) |
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Architect | Fumihiko Maki |
Developer | Silverstein Properties |
Planned rebuilding of the World Trade Center |
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200 Greenwich Street (Tower 2) |
175 Greenwich Street (Tower 3) |
150 Greenwich Street (Tower 4) |
130 Liberty Street (Tower 5) |
7 World Trade Center |
Memorial and museum |
Reflecting Absence (Memorial) |
International Freedom Center |
Drawing Center |
Transit |
Transportation hub |
150 Greenwich Street is the address for a new skyscraper being erected as part of the World Trade Center reconstruction in New York City. The office building has also been referred to as World Trade Center Tower 4 and will be on the east side of Greenwich Street, across the street from the original location of the twin towers that were destroyed during the September 11, 2001 attacks. Noted architect Fumihiko Maki was awarded the contract to design the building which will be 947 feet (288 m) tall,[1] which will make it the fourth tallest skyscraper on the World Trade Center site.[2] New revised plans state the tower will now rise a total of 975 feet (297 m).[3] The total floor space of the building is anticipated to include 1.8 million square feet (167,000 square meter) of office and retail space.[4] The building's groundbreaking took place in January 2008, and it is scheduled to be completed by 2011. The structural engineer for the building is Leslie E. Robertson Associates, New York City.[5]
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[edit] Planned occupancy
After completion, 150 Greenwich is slated to become the new headquarters for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which was formerly headquartered in 1 World Trade Center before it was destroyed. The building will dedicate the space on the lower levels for use by retail businesses and also provide access to an underground "retail and transportation concourse" which will be connected to the PATH terminal at the site.[6]
[edit] Planned layout
Above the ground portion of the building dedicated for retail use (which consists of the ground floor, the three floors immediately above the ground floor as well as the two floors below ground), the building will accommodate offices using two distinct floor shapes. From floors 7 through 44, the typical floor space will be 36,350 square feet (3,376 square meter) in the shape of a parallelogram (which is designed to echo the configuration of the site).[7] From floors 46 through 60 the floor space will be 28,000 sq ft (2,600 square meter) in the shape of a trapezoid, shaped so that it opens toward the tip of Manhattan Island and also triangulated to face the nearby Freedom Tower. The tower will include five levels of mechanical floors.[8]
[edit] Construction
Site preparation and excavation were carried out by the Port Authority and were completeted on January 12, 2008. Silverstein Properties has now taken over the 150 Greenwich Street site, and has begun construction on the tower. It is planned to be completed by 2011.
[edit] References
- ^ Designs for three World Trade Center Towers Unveiled, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, URL retrieved September 7, 2006
- ^ 150 Greenwich St., Maki and Associates, Architectural Fact Sheet - September 2006, URL retrieved February 9, 2007
- ^ LEED Gold Greenwich Street Towers to Break Ground at WTC in Early 2008 (html) (2007-09-11). Retrieved on 2007-11-08.
- ^ Pogrebin,Robin, Richard Rogers to Design Tower at Ground Zero, The New York Times, (May 3, 2006), URL retrieved June 22, 2006
- ^ "Ground Zero Office Designs Hailed as Hopeful Symbols" in Engineering News-Record, September 18, 2006, pg. 12
- ^ 150 GREENWICH STREET MAKI AND ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTURAL FACT SHEET - SEPTEMBER 2006, URL retrieved February 9, 2007
- ^ 150 GREENWICH STREET MAKI AND ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTURAL FACT SHEET - SEPTEMBER 2006, URL retrieved February 9, 2007
- ^ 150 GREENWICH STREET MAKI AND ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTURAL FACT SHEET - SEPTEMBER 2006, URL retrieved February 9, 2007
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- 150 Greenwich Street - Official site
- Tower 4 Design Update (video)
- Images of 150 Greenwich Street (images)
- Skyscraperpage.com - Diagram of building
- 150 Greenwich Street is at coordinates Coordinates:
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