One Commerce Square finishing construction, May 1987. You can see the diamond on top is not completely clad yet, along with One Liberty Place just weeks away from topping out
Are the former designs for the New WTC old enough for this thread? Found some renderings of its previous iterations on the Web Archive of wtc.com and thought they made for a neat comparison, in addition to one I made:
Digital Hagley-J. Victor Dallin Aerial Survey collection (Accession 1970.200)
The Drake finishing construction mid 1929. First beam placed September 8, 1928, and the building opened September 30, 1929. It was supposed to open June 1, and at the end of 1928 it was expected to cost 2,100,000 but it ended up being 5,000,000. Keep in mind a major event in 1929, but the tower was still deemed successful
Me as well! I had to do research on it, since there’s barely information out there. But I was digging DEEP last night, I even found the architect of my high-school (Charles R. Peddle). Another fact about the buildings is many people confuse this tower as the one next to Central Park in Ghostbusters. But that was just a practical model