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World Trade Center Construction in pictures

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  • Transportation Hub October 12, 2010

    This is where the restored No. 1 subway line will run.

  • Transportation Hub April 21, 2011

    In the last week of March, with steel laid up to the 60th floor and concrete poured up to the 52nd floor, work began picking up at One World Trade Center. Trees were planted and the benches at the memorial plaza were being fit together. The Santiago Calatrava transportation hub was taking shape and the lunch cart has been expanded.

  • Transportation Hub March 31, 2011

    The Santiago Calatrava transportation hub will be over 800,000 square feet, will have PATH trains, as well as 13 MTA subway lines.

  • Transportation Hub March 31, 2011

  • Transportation Hub April 23, 2010

    The start of construction on Santiago Calatrava's Transportation Hub, which is expected to be completed by 2015.

  • Transportation Hub April 23, 2010

    The transportation hub will run through here.

  • Transportation Hub April 23, 2010

    The restored No. 1 subway line will one day run through this channel.

  • Transportation Hub June 15, 2010

    On this hot blazingly hot day in June, the latest updates include nearly 20 floors with concrete poured, the placement of the granite tiles in the North pool of the 9/11 Memorial is near complete and construction has begun on the South pool.

  • Transportation Hub August 3, 2011

    Despite crippling summer heat, workers carried on and are on schedule to complete construction of the Memorial Plaza and Memorial Pools in time for the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks this fall. Today, One World Trade Center has 69 floors with concrete poured and 78 floors of steel.

  • Transportation Hub August 4, 2011

    The first and largest support has been laid. It is 50-tons and will support the roof. Workers are 100 feet below ground and are nearly finished with excavation of the No. 1 subway line. Over 2,800 tons of steel has been laid.