Winter Garden Atrium
The Winter Garden Atrium is a ten-story, glass-enclosed conservatory on Vesey Street in Manhattan that opened in 1988. Opposite the North Yacht Harbor, the building houses various shops and cafes. The Winter Garden Atrium was badly damaged in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 by falling debris from the World Trade Center , but was able to reopen after several months of renovation.
history
The Winter Garden Atrium was designed by César Pelli in 1985 and opened in 1988 as the last building of the World Financial Center (Brookfield Place since 2014). The construction cost was $ 60 million. The atrium was connected to the World Trade Center by a 120 meter long pedestrian bridge .
There are several shops and cafes inside the Winter Garden Atrium. In the center of the building are a total of 16 Mexican Washington palms . Since its opening, the building has also been used for exhibitions and concerts.
In the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the Winter Garden Atrium was badly damaged by falling rubble from the collapsing buildings. The footbridge connected to the World Trade Center was completely destroyed.
Despite the high damage, it was decided in February 2002 to rebuild the Winter Garden Atrium. During the renovation work, 70 percent of the glass panes, all floors, stairs and the 16 palm trees in the building had to be replaced, as the rubble had also severely damaged a large part of the interior. The total cost of the renovation was $ 50 million. Almost as much as it had cost to build the atrium almost fifteen years earlier.
A little over a year after the terrorist attacks, the Winter Garden Atrium was opened on September 17, 2002 in the presence of then US President George W. Bush . In the spring of 2003, an exhibition organized by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation about the clean-up work and the beginning of new construction at the World Trade Center site in the Winter Garden Atrium took place. In addition to exhibitions and concerts, films from the Tribeca Film Festival have been shown on the big screen in the building every year since the opening .
In August 2013, the palm trees planted in 2002 had to be replaced again, as they were too big for the interior of the building with a height of 18 meters.
Web links
- detailed description and history of the building with images from the interior (English)
- Photo gallery of the building on wirednewyork.com (English)
- Brookfield Place on nyc.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ World Financial Center. Retrieved March 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Frederick M. Winship: Winter Garden ruined on 9/11 to be rebuilt. February 4, 2002, accessed March 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Urban Gadabout: New palm trees for the World Financial Center's breathtaking Winter Garden. August 21, 2013, accessed March 7, 2016 .