the continued adventures of 1 WTCâs spire. Communications equipment is starting to overtake the steel.
Do you guys think that many years down the road theyâll redo the spire to include the covering. For the tower to be the crown jewel of NYC, the spire sure is ugly.
I wish
Me, too.
Working on Saturday. Panels around the East entrance coming along nicely. Good to see.
Via Earthcam:
If I remember correctly, the exclusion of the radome wasnât an aesthetic decision. The engineers discovered that it actually wasnât aerodynamic and would make the spire sway like crazy.
Really? I thought it was to cut costs, but that makes sense as well. Thanks!
I mean I could be wrong but I have a distinct memory of reading that somewhere at the time
Edit: found this old article from the gothamist that says it had more to do with the impossible standards of maintaining the structure. 1 World Trade Center May Not Be 1776 Feet Tall (Or Tallest In U.S.) After All - Gothamist
they canât even wash the windows regularly. How would they manage the spire?
Iâve seen in a documentary that the radome would not survive. They did a wind test on a model of Lower Manhattan with the One World Trade Centerâs 2011 design and the spire was shaking like crazy
That might be what I was remembering
Surely the design could be modified with smaller fiberglass panels that would be easier to maintain, and openings for wind.
So much for a new buildingâŚ
No bueno.
They seem to have set up new temporary window-washing rigs for the majority of the building. They are still washing the observation deck and mechanical floors from the very top. But for the office/occupied floors, they seem to have set up something new hung from the bottom floor of the large mechanical area near the top. They even removed some windows on the north and south sides.
Another dish installed on the rings. I canât wait for this whole thing to be covered.
Via EarthCam
Do you think they will end being uniform like in the renders? Or could we end up with all different sized equipment? I hope itâs the former because otherwise it would look kinda silly.
Iâm almost positive it will all be uniform as far as the dishes on the rings go. The antennas come next and Iâm not sure what that will look like lol.