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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

COVER STORY REBUILDING

Lightning Renewal - ofDazzling Atrium-- Lifts Lagging Spirits Winter Garden team fulfills daring pledge to fa.X J''4 finish redo by Sept. 11 GY JI Al n a continuous adrenaline rush, a htpei- ■ ■tledicated team working in the wings of ■ H^^'oinid Zero ha.s ireen bounding toward a t'i '/’'4Vw H^Hgoa! once considered unachievable—com- fe pletion of the $.50-million renewal of the Winter Garden at the World Financial {.'.enter by the I .. of V. ‘ anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The a effort to repolish the architectural gem of lower Manhattan, a cavernous steel-and-glass skylight smashed close to smithereens by the collapse of the 110-story One World Trade Center, owes it sticcess in large part to a brilliantly conceived exterior hoi.st- and-trolley system. The contraption not only sped the roof steel rehabilitation, it coniprc.ssed the reglazing of nearly 60.000 .sq ft of glass from the two years the job originally took into just 4.5 months. f '■......................................

Over the year, the cacophony of reconstruction noise at the grand atrium building has served as a welcome counterpoint to the somber strains issuing from the 16-acrc crater across the street. “This prqj- BEi Sky-lit garden, 110 ft tall, sits across the street from Ground ect provided a certain optimism everybody wa.s so hungry for,” say.s Graig Copeland, an associate in the .New York stole officials on the area's renewal. Among its many accom­ City office of the Winter Gardenls original and current archi­ plishments, N\NV designed, pm hono, the (hound Zero view­ tect, Cesar Pelli & Associates, 'it inspired everything,” he adds. ing fence, a portion of which is set to open Sept. 11. The magnitude of the task only served to supercharge the Helfand predicts that with it.s new “front door” on West workers. “We got 2,50% from these people," says Jaine.s White, •Street, which replaces stone cladding, the Winter Garden will project superintendent for the WTC recovery team of Turner become “the major public space downtown,” and “much more Construction Co., New York City, and the acknowledged mas­ importtmt than it ever wa.s before.” termind behind not just the trolley .system but the overall strat­ CRITICAL LINK. The $65-nnllion Winter Garden, between egy for getting to the finish line by Sept. 5. We,st Street and the Hudson River, opened in 1987 as the cen­ I’he rebuilt Winter Garden stands as a 110-ft-tall symbol of terpiece of die 8..>million-sq-ft WFC (ENR 3/T/S5 p. 28). One hope amidst the shattered lives and dreams of the area. And of the few “quality-of-life” indoor spacers in Manhatton, it is a crit­ cc with its new glas.s entryway facing Ground Zero, it also is a giant ical indoor pedestrian link to mass-transit connections, both welcome-back mat for the citizens of New York City and subways and ferries, to New Jersey. “It is the reason Cesar Pelli beyond. Beyond that, it. has boosted tire spirits of those grap­ won the commission for the WC in the first place,” say.s Sabri­ pling with the .sticky issues of rebuilding, a process rife with na Kanner, a vice president of WFC owner Brookfield Financial I emotions, politics, economics and counties!! agendas. Properties, and project manager for the rebuild. § The .structure's four-story, U-in-plan base skirts the 192-fl- Is It i.s “a fantastic symbol for the planning effort," says Mar­ garet Helfand, a principal of Helfand Myerberg Guggen- widc vaulted skylight, framed by architecturally expre.ssed steel heimer Architects, New' York City', and outgoing chair of New truss arches 15 ft, apart A llO-ft-toll glass window wall offers s York .New Visions, a coalition of more titan 80 firms and groups views of the Hudson River and New Jersey to the west. o representing architects, planners, graphic designers and engi­ Tru.s.ses are [tin-connected into composite concrete and i neers that has labored without compen.sation to advise city and steel laddet columns along the .sides of the garden. In the long

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