Author Archives: Niall Murphy
Looking south from the top of 1 WTC.
Looking down at the Memorial from the top of 1 WTC.
The 9/11 Memorial Plaza from the PATH station.
Looking up toward 1 WTC from the South Memorial Pool.
Last Friday, Gothamist went down to the World Trade Centre site to check the progress of the Memorial and the new 1 World Trade Centre tower in the run up to the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
The plaza and 9/11 museum pavilion seem nearly complete, and 1 WTC is officially a skyscraper, rising more than 70 stories above Ground Zero and visible for miles around.
We asked Chris Ward, the Executive Director of the Port Authority, how so much had gotten done this year. Through a spokesman, he told us “We are building a city within a city. Three years ago, we decided where this project should be on the 10th Anniversary and every year after. Establish clear goals and priorities, then harness the imagination and ingenuity of our builders – that has been the path to progress.” Those builders now include more than 3,000 construction workers— the most who have ever been working at the site.
GALLERY: Exclusive: World Trade Center Progress Tour (Gothamist)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mIQjxvKSqw
Another new mix by Pogo – hot on the heels of Bloom – this time using samples from The Wizard of Oz.
Animated by Reed Gauthier, who beat 43 other entries in a recent competition to make the official animation.
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If you don’t already know about the Stuxnet virus, this is for you.
A slick typographic crash-course originally made for the Australian ABC1 show Hungry Beast by motion designer Patrick Clair.
(Thanks Dan)
The Windows XP default desktop image ‘Bliss’ (from a photograph by Charles O’Rear, no seriously) compared to an actual Google Maps image of the same location in Sonoma California.
The reality is somewhat less blissful.
