Wrecker Rep Describes Building's 'Deconstruction' As construction of what will be the world's tallest building, the Freedom Tower, gets underway this fall, workers across the street will begin the uncelebrated and mostly unseen work of dismantling Deutsche Bank at 130 Liberty Street. The 42-story building, damaged and draped in black veil since the terrorist attacks, will come down one beam at a time. "It's a reverse construction," explained Philip Zezulisnki, a representative with Gilbane Building Company. The company was awarded the $45 million contract from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation for the demolition. Gilbane will bring the building down through a process it calls 'deconstruction." Aside from the slow swing of crane, much of the process will be out of view as workers behind the curtain will spend months gutting the interior. The "soft" walls, the wiring, the ductwork, the carpeting- all of it will be sent down interior shaft ways and loaded on to trucks bound for New Jersey. Then workers will come for the floors, slicing out a level at time and sliding it to the floor below. Those pieces too will be sent out through an interior shaft. "You will not see that work being done," said Zezulisnki. The project is expected to last 13 months and it will likely be six months into the process before the curtain comes down revealing the skeletal structure of the building, he said. The piece by piece demolish of the building will be the largest such undertaking in the world since the 1968 deconstruction of the Singer Building. The 47-story tower once stood where One Liberty Plaza stands today. The bank is being raised to make way for an expanded World Trade Center site, a new St. Nicholas Church, an office building and space for a bus garage.