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The Perlman and the Greek Orthodox Church give the area some beautiful lighting. Great to see. Midtown crowns and 111 should follow suit.
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I hope the color of lights in the memorial fountains and the base of One World both match the PAC.
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Iâm under the assumption that they never fully finished cladding the vertical south surface of the base until they had finished ground works and poured the underlayment in front of it (the large trapezoidal area of fresh concrete) in Enterpriseâs screenshot. This shows the âboundaryâ of the buildingâs property line, the âactualâ sidewalk to the south of it will extend about 25 ft more. The bollards of that side of the sidewalk have not been put in place but the eastern bollards and sidewalkâs edge have been there for a few months now (since August).
I bothers me that the Greenwich sidewalk is so out of line with the Memorialâs Greenwich St sidewalk, really that whole existing/planned intersection of Greenwich and Fulton is so crooked.
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In olden times Greenwich didnât change angle until Cortland St.
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Does anyone know what material the black base is clad with? Granite? Marble? I would not think it would be metal or terracotta but none of the pictures are close enough to tell.
At one point, just from renders, I had thought it was metal panels, but after it started to be installed and from closer images, im sure itâs a very uniform granite as it has the smallest speckling normally seen in granite.
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I hope so, granite makes the most sense, thanks TKDV.
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This photo on the latest YIMBY article by Michael Young is the closest I could find to assuming that itâs granite or another type of stone, but the speckling on the material could be dirt for all I know but they are definitely matte in texture. It could be metal panels.
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I love that wood paneling.
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Zooming in on the photo shows a depth of the holes to be consistent with some type of stone, I would think that it is too thick for metal. Wish I could see it in person.
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Well taking the depth of those vent pieces into consideration, I wouldnât expect it to be stone as they would be nearly 4 inches thick as each panel is 5â wide which, in todayâs usage of stone, is extremely thick. Even the marble is only 1/2" thick in a 2" assembly.
If metal was used it wouldnât just be plate metal with holes in it, so I wouldnât let the thickness of any material really trick you, it would be form fitted metal panels or extruded metal panels.
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I loose sense of scale with these photos, had no idea each panel is 5 ft wide.
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More detail of the back. Itâs honestly not that bad in my opinion. Vesey street is not the main entrance or a pedestrian artery and this will be a very busy loading dock area. The panels will probably get banged up over time.
The west side panels look rather warped in this picture but it is being corrected. The northern face is largely smooth.
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I agree with your comment, I donât think it looks bad either, itâs just that it wouldâve looked better if it matched the pattern of the black cladding and not even necessarily the color. But even though itâs not the main entrance, I would hope itâs not banged up over time (I donât really see why it would be) since the actual âloadingâ dock of the entire complex is under ground.
But I do hope the west face is in fact being corrected because that is probably the worst application/distortion of metal panels I have seen anywhere.
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Yeah a darker shade could have been better. Iâm guessing they figured it would look disjointed anyway so they made it look separate from the âcubeâ as it were.
As far as banging up, the southern loading entrance on liberty already looks pretty rough in some spots. But yes overall hopefully not too banged up
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