7 World Trade Center (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / Hoboken / New York City, New York / Greenwich Street, 250
 office building, skyscraper, electrical substation, 2006_construction

741-foot, 52-story modernist office building completed in 2006. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Studio Daniel Libeskind for Silverstein Properties, the new 7 World Trade Center, which replaced the predecessor brought down on 9/11, has 42 floors of leasable space, starting at the 11th floor, and a total of 1,700,000 square-feet of office space. The original 7 WTC was completed in 1987, and was destroyed after falling debris from the collapsing Twin Towers ignited uncontrollable fires which compromised the building’s steel frame, resulting in eventual collapse of the structure in the late afternoon of 9/11.

As with its predecessor, the first ten floors of the new 7 WTC house an electrical substation, which provides power to much of Lower Manhattan. The office tower has a narrower footprint at ground level than its predecessor so the course of Greenwich Street could be restored to reunite TriBeCa and the Financial District.

A parallelogram in shape, it is clad in a curtain wall of silver-blue reflective glass with stainless steel spandrels behind the glass. The base is enclosed by vertical stainless steel louvers that provide ventilation for the machinery. At night the curtain wall is illuminated with blue LED lights. At night, a large cube of light above the lobby also emanates blue light, while during the day it provides white light to the lobby, and at dusk it transitions to violet and back to blue.

By March 2007, 60 percent of the building had been leased. In September 2006, Moody's credit rating and investment analysts signed a 20-year lease to rent 15 floors of 7 World Trade Center. Other tenants that had signed leases in 7 World Trade Center, as of May 2007, include ABN AMRO, Ameriprise Financial Inc., Darby & Darby P.C., Mansueto Ventures LLC, business publisher of Fast Company and Inc., and the New York Academy of Sciences. The lobby contains a 14ft high permanent LID light installation by artist Jenny Holzer entitled "For 7 World Trade" (2006).
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Coordinates:   40°42'48"N   74°0'43"W

Comments

  • First to be rebuilt at WTC since it was separated form the site otherwise it would be delayed non stop. The reconstruction stared in 2002 and was finished May 23, 2006. It is 5 floors taller than the original at 52 floors and 741 feet in the air.
  • I'm pretty disappointed with the plans for the rest of the site (especially the "Freedom" Tower), and the Reflecting Absence, but this is a very nice building.
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