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

One World Trade Center is a 1,776-foot, 104-story office building completed in 2014. Designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, One World Trade Center, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, is located roughly where the former 6 World Trade Center stood, destroyed in the 9/11 attacks. The tower reaches a symbolic height of 1,776 feet at its spire, to mark the year of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and stands at a roof height of 1,368 feet, the same height as the original One World Trade Center (North Tower).

Construction began April 2006, and the tower was completed in spring 2014. The building occupies a 200-foot square, with an area of 40,000 square feet, nearly identical to the footprints of the original Twin Towers. The tower rises from an 185-foot windowless reinforced concrete base, designed to protect it against truck bombs and other ground-level terror threats. The base of the tower is clad in hundreds of pairs of 13-foot vertical glass fins set against horizontal bands of eight-inch wide stainless-steel slats.

From the 20th floor upwards, the square edges of the tower's cubic base are chamfered back, shaping the building into eight tall isosceles triangles, or an elongated square antiprism. Near its middle, the tower forms a perfect octagon, and then culminates in a glass parapet, whose shape is a square oriented 45 degrees from the base. A 408-foot sculpted mast containing the broadcasting antenna rises from a circular support ring, which contains additional broadcasting and maintenance equipment.

The building has 86 usable above-ground floors, of which 78 are used for office purposes. The base consists of floors 1–19, including a 65-foot-high public lobby. The office floors begin at floor 20, and go up to floor 63. There is a sky lobby on floor 64; office floors resume on floor 65, and stop at floor 90. Floors 91–99 and 103–104 are mechanical floors. The tower has a 3-story restaurant named "Windows on the World" located on floors 105–107.

On November 1, 2014, moving trucks started moving items for the tower's first tenant, magazine publisher Condé Nast, from its old headquarters at 4 Times Square to One World Trade Center.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_World_Trade_Center
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Coordinates:  40°42'46"N 74°0'47"W
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  In this building

  1. Hors d'Ouevrerie
  2. Cellar in the Sky
  3. The Skydive Restaurant
  4. Condé Nast Publications
  5. Piano Software
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Comments

  • It resembles (somewhat) the North Tower of the old World Trade Center.
  • This place is very beautiful
  • Please stop alerting the outline of this tag. It is a square structure, the view that you see is a photo illusion due to the shape of the building taken at a skewed angle.