PROJECT INFORMATION

Located across from the World Trade Center in New York City, the original St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was the only building other than the World Trade Center Complex itself to be immediately and completely destroyed by the September 11 attacks in 2001. Now under reconstruction, the Church will be the only non-secular building at Ground Zero. The new St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, designed by Santiago Calatrava, will be a small building constructed of a custom glass/stone/glass rain screen copula that will light up from the inside at night. It will have 40 individual white natural light skylights with white stone cladded doors and custom arched steel/aluminum radius windows throughout, as well as white blast rated curtain wall at the west façade. At the top of the church there will be a custom-fabricated bronze cross. At the interior Nave there will be a custom arch radius sliding door

SURFACES PROJECT SCOPE

MG McGrath worked on the exterior of the church fabricating and installing nearly every part of the stone facade along with the custom welded and painted metal cross atop the church.

GLASS & GLAZING PROJECT SCOPE

MG McGrath fabricated and installed the church’s 8,100-square-foot custom exterior enclosure with a stone/glass/stone layered rainscreen facade system. The translucent nature of the material allows for beautiful backlighting to shine through it at night. Our team also fabricated and installed a white blast-rated curtain wall system with matching doors, bullet-resistant glass & skylights, and stone laminated glass with a custom cross pattern cut into it.