After our visit to the World Trade Center showroom, the folks at Silverstein Properties took us up to the 33rd floor of 7 World Trade Center, home to the sales office for the 30 Park Place condos. The “us” isn’t royal; I was piggybacking on a group of students from the Cornell School of Hotel Administration.

The sample rooms, spiffy as they were, were not the highlight for me. (I did laugh when one of the students announced that he couldn’t imagine his still hypothetical kids ever living in such a place. They should be so lucky!) No, I was all about the model of the building, designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, and a couple of cross-sections. The part that’s lit up below is the hotel section. The rest is residential.

Here’s the top of the hotel section (all of these photos get bigger if you click on them, and it’s worth it to see the details):

And here’s the top of the 82-story building:

Two views of the plaza to the east of the building (I don’t know what the obelisk is about—maybe it’s a fountain?):

The condo entrance on Park Place:

The hotel restaurant entrance on Church:

And the main hotel entrance on Barclay:

Then there were cross-sections of the ground floor and the spa floor. Here’s a close-up of the door directly above. You get a nice sense of the details.

The ground floor:

The lobby seating area:

The bar (including a view through the window):

And the restaurant—the broker said a chef would be announced soon.

Finally, there was another cross-section of the spa level—since there are windows, I think we can assume it’s not below grade. The pool is 25 yards, and it’s for hotel guests and residents.

The broker said the building would be done in about a year.