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Man, that roof access hatch is really going to be a sore thumb sticking out of the perfectly flat cube. Really wish the renderings would take these kinds of things into account from the get-go.
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It will be interesting to see if it looks bad from the ground!
Probably the cheapest solution and yet another example of value engineering and what the WTC could have been if so many corners were not cut.
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Iām not convinced it will stick up as much as it is right now. There are many more layers of cladding that have yet to be put on this-- they are doing more concrete layers right now. I canāt say I was surprised, it is absolutely mandatory to have rooftop access on any building. And itās not really feasible to use some sort of trapdoor. We also need to wait and see how this green circle turns out.
With all due respect, corners are not being cut on this building. It is an obscenely expensive project for a theater seating so few people. $ 275,000,000 for 1200 seats. That is ~$230,000 per house seat.
The Disney Concert Hall, another unique-design modern performance space, was ~$85,000 per seat, adjusted for inflation. Less than half for what is considered an exceptionally fancy space.
This is one of the fanciest and most unique spaces of its kind to be built in recent memory. Nothing about this is ācutting cornersā the way they have value-engineered other towers. Remember this is being built with donated funds. This is purely being done for public benefit and I for one am grateful that we are getting a cutting-edge, no-expenses-spared performance space to add more options to the NYC theatrical/musical scene, especially at this time of post-covid.
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Assuming it doesnāt stick up quite as much due to future surrounding material, is there any reason why that entryway couldnāt be placed in the northwest corner? Even with a low profile shed, it risks marring the roofline from certain distances along Greenwich, West Broadway, and Vesey, maybe even when standing near the transit hub.
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Looks like it!!!
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I think those panels might be the windows for the back deck over the garage on the north side. The renderings show clear glass there (ostensibly because it is hidden from street view angle) that would open up for deck access
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Nice catch. I think this is going to be a superb facade. A great addition to the campus.
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Thatās some gorgeous marble 
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I think these may go up fast. They seemed to go very slow on the wall pannels on the church across the street. Almost like they were having problems attaching them!
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It looks really good. It also should go up quite fast because the anchoring system is already mounted on the mullions.
I wonder if thereās going to be some sort of facade access system on the roof. My most likely guess would be not a full BMU, but some of those anchors for a movable scaffold around the edge of the roof. If they donāt have a decent facade access system this building would be forced to have long periods of scaffolding and thereās no way the developer/architects would want that. I can foresee there being problems with the marble panels from time to time and that design makes it impossible to modify panels from the inside.
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ā After seven years of hard work with an incredible team, the first of The Perelman Centerās 4,896 5ā x 3ā āmarble-glassā facade panels have been installed!!!ā
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that looks like the panels I saw a few months back on the highway haha. Probably just a coincidence.
They probably can use smaller hoists for installing the marble. Inefficient to use the mega crane
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