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

USA / New Jersey / Hoboken / New York City, New York / Greenwich Street, 200
 office building, skyscraper, under construction
2 World Trade Center/200 Greenwich Street is a proposed 80-story office building, the foundations of which have been poured. The original Foster + Partners-designed tower featured a skyscraper topped by a diamond-shaped crown.

On June 15, 2015, Danish architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) revealed a new design for the site which would have served as the headquarters of 20th Century Fox/News Corp. The 80-story building was intended to replace the previous design by Foster+Partners to suit the new tenants. However, Fox/News Corp. pulled out of the project in 2016 and the design was shelved.

In 2020, the Foster + Partners design was revived, with adjustments to be made for the modern market. In 2021, however, it was announced that Foster + Partners would redesign the tower.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_World_Trade_Center
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Coordinates:   40°42'43"N   74°0'40"W

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  • 200 Greenwich Street is the address for a new office building to be erected as part of the World Trade Center reconstruction in New York City. The building has also been referred to as World Trade Center Tower 2 and will be on the east side of Greenwich Street, across the street from the original location of the twin towers that were destroyed during the September 11, 2001 attacks. The 79-story building was designed by Foster and Partners, London. The building will have a height of 1,270 feet (387 m), with a tripod shaped antenna that allows the building to reach a total height of 1,350 feet (411 m).[1] In comparison, the Empire State Building is 1,250 feet (381 m) tall at its top floor, and the original 2 World Trade Center (often referred to as the "South Tower") was 1,362 feet (415 m). The structural engineer for the building is WSP Cantor Seinuk, New York City.[2] Once built it will be the second tallest building in New York City even without the spire being counted, topping the Empire State Building. The sloping roof consisting of four diamonds inclines towards the memorial to provide a visual marker around the skyline of just where the original towers were. The tower is designed to resemble a cross with indentations breaking up the sides. [3] The total floor space of 200 Greenwich Street is anticipated to include 2.4 million square feet (220,000 square metres) of office space and another 130,000 square feet (12,000 square metres) for retail shops and access areas to the underground PATH railway. Excavation for the new building is expected to commence in 2007 and the building will be completed by 2011.[4]
  • Nice building, just should not be built at Ground Zero.
  • Also along with tower 3 this building may become a 5 story stump to hold the place for this building which means the buildings construction may not start until after 2013. By 2013 we can have FULLY REBUILT TWIN TOWERS instead of the Freedom tower, Tower 4, the memorial, transit station and 2 stumps. REBUILD THE TWIN TOWERS ALREADY IT IS WHAT 93 PERCENT OF AMERICANS WANT AND ALMOST ALL 9/11 FAMILIES WANT THEM REBUILT. BUILDING THESE BUILDINGS IS SHOWING TERRORISTS THAT THEY CAN COME HERE AND DESTROY FAMOUS STUCTURES WHENEVR THEY FEEL LIKE DOING SO.
  • This future angle-topped structure is perhaps the only one of proposed angle-tops to survive the public-vetting process. When proposals to not-rebuild the World Trade canter towers were revealed and also the proposed replacement seemed puny by comparison to the lost structure, there was public outcry ---also at the planned bunches of angle-top buildings which gave the impression of a cut-down WTC surrounded by jagged fragments. It was taken as a visual echo of the feeling that terrorists had cut down the USA and left this area shattered, fragmented. The initial designers' inspiration seemed to be both a desire to look eye-catchingly different and also to "restore the original street grid 'lost' when the WTC was built." Some would say "good riddance" to the street grid in this area, but many designers and some residents had nostalgia for it. Some thought that over-concern for grid-restoration and perhaps-misguided worries over looking "too large" resulted in a rebuilt plan rife with humble and/or cut-down looking new buildings.
  • Oops, I meant "Center" of course, not "canter". I forgot to mention in my already twelve-pages-long comment : the new Freedom Tower, centerpiece of the reconstruction, is thought to be by some another manifestation of the "don't dare to build large" thinking since the structure --though 1776 feet tall on blueprints-- gets much of its height from uninhabited floors which simply support the observation space and the comms towers.
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