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One World Trade Center

Architects
Daniel Libeskind David Childs
Year
2014
Style
Contemporary Modern
City
Manhattan, NY
One World Trade Center
Photo: Pedro Szekely from Los Angeles, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
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One World Trade Center, also known as the Freedom Tower, is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex, designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill on the northwest corner of the 16-acre site, at the location of the original 6 World Trade Center. It carries the same name as the original North Tower destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, and is the tallest building in the United States and the Western Hemisphere.

the building

Surpassing the Empire State. One World Trade Center became the tallest structure in New York City on April 30, 2012, overtaking the Empire State Building; its steel structure topped out that August 30.

the style

Facts describe the tower's style as contemporary architecture, following in the postmodern and modern lineage of the earlier World Trade Center towers.

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the architect

Daniel Libeskind produced the master plan for the rebuilt site, while David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the tower itself, completed in 2014.

significance

Below-ground utility work, footings, and foundations began April 27, 2006; the building opened in 2014 as the seventh-tallest building in the world.

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