See what I mean about the center front seam? But I digress. No doubt all of this was considered.
A great vantage point to see WTC 2 rise
Cladding! looks really good quality (terracota?)
The corner is looking amazing, it makes for a nice focal point from the Memorial
Nice catch, hard to say if it’s terracotta though since terracotta cladding is almost never just an outline extrusion of the shape, and normally has some depth with ribbing and punch outs in it to support it, even small pieces, and these seem like fairly large pieces to have no “support” extrusions.
It’s possible they could be GFRC panels.
They have a couple panels of the stone curtain wall up on Ann St. and are installing the mounts for it on the Park Row side ( as per the nice woman running the job )
The project seems to be installing the cladding really slowly the past 3 months having removed those first panels since Alemel spotted them in April.
But its clear now that those were just test panels because the insulation had not been installed as is now visible in treebeards update.
Did the employee confirm that the panels were made of stone @treebeard? Seems very wasteful to use stone on such a shaped/hollow profile. I honestly need to get up close to this building and take snaps myself, not sure why I haven’t yet.
Well it’s been a little hot lately -
@TKDV She had said stone the previous time we spoke and I specifically confirmed it this time to be sure, so yes.
Thanks for the confirmation! Still seems wasteful (very) to use stone in a profile like that.
Is that some sort of ‘composite’ stone: like Corian brand counter tops? I like these photos from Field Condition, as they are the next best thing to being there and viewing up-close and in-person.
Based on this photo, I would have guessed these panels are made of a ‘ceramic’ material - not stone. Thanks for the on-site confirmation… 
Maybe engineered stone? https://www.hgtv.com/videos/engineered-stone-countertops-0167854
Credit - Field Condition.
What I like is that those panels look “HEFTY”. This type of facade panel is often done in sheet metal: which always looks cheep and flimsy IMHO. 
Im pretty sure whatever material a portion of facade is made of is whatever the Architect wants it to be, I wouldn’t say there is a specific type of material associated to any type of facade panel regardless of the shape or materiality/appearance. Modern construction methods allow for anything to pretty much be whatever it wants, its just a matter of if something is resourceful with how it uses the material and how much of it is used and/or wasted in the process.
What “type” of facade panel is this? 
I was hoping that someone could provide a link to the product supplier. This link I am posting is only an example: not the actual supplier/maker of those facade panels. Someone in-the-know, may at some point post the link - perhaps that “nice lady” running the job.
The material/product supplier isn’t normally something/someone that is public knowledge or really able to be found anywhere since they are a subconsultant and/or subcontractor of the architect and/or the contractor. Those are normally only included in specs of the project the architect creates that are sent out to the contractor.
Unless someone here works on the project, not as a construction worker and more so the construction manager/contractor, nobody would know.
It would be like if Permasteelisa was working as a facade subcontractor for Skanska (the contractor, not in this case), you would need to know who Permasteelisa buys their stuff from.
Stone would be a better insulator as opposed to metal, I suppose.
Good point - I think stone would be better for insulation than sheet metal. I saw this link on “thermal bridge” and explains it well.
In this case it was most likely the ‘aesthetics’ of the stone - the have that HEFTY look of old world solid stone fittings. The same profile in sheet metal would probably cost a lot less; but also look a lot worse.