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Transportation Hub Will Be a Safe Haven
The building stretches more than four city blocks.
Photo courtesy of TJPA
Dozens of steel-tube buttresses across the four-and-a-half-block excavation prevent soil movement in nearby properties.
(Center) Courtesy of Webcor/Obayashi
The steel exoskeleton incorporates 1,650 tons of cast nodes
Photo courtesy of TJPA
Nodes linked to tubular steel columns form the exposed exoskeleton, supporting the bus level and roof deck, which extend out 23 ft from ground level.
Photo by Scott Blair
Perimeter structural system uses tree-like columns joined via shear links at the roof level.
Images by Thornton Tomasetti
A crane trestle facilitates steel erection.
photo by Jim Wiscombe;
Nodes linked to tubular steel columns form the exposed exoskeleton.
Photo courtesy of Skanska
Skanska's crew of 90 ironworkers erects a steel column.
Photo courtesy of Skanska
Cast nodes have 75 unique geometries.
Photo by Jim Wiscombe
Tree-like perimeter columns will remain architecturally expressed behind an undulating perforated aluminum screen.
Image by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, courtesy of TJPA
Model of ground-level cast steel node.Each node weighed up to 23 tons.
Image courtesy of Thornton Tomasetti
Crews assemble 23,000 tons of structural steel at the Transbay site.
Photo by Scott Blair
Steel exoskeleton (in red) features shear links between tree-like columns. Atop the 1,800, 100-ft-long micropiles sits a 5-ft-thick mat foundation.
Image courtesy of Thornton Tomasetti
The glass-topped light column dominates the great hall public area.
Image by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, courtesy of TJPA
A glass-topped 'light column' will pierce the bus deck and ground-level great hall to deliver daylight to the below-grade train box.
Image by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, courtesy of TJPA
A 4.5-acre rooftop park will collect stormwater, pretreated by a wetlands area.
Image by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, courtesy of TJPA
