The south entrance of new One World Trade Center is 70 meters or 230 feet northwest of the center point of the reservoir which on the site of North Tower.īeing located in Downtown New York, One World Trade Center is 4.5 km or 2.8 miles away from the Empire State Building, another landmark building in the city that situated in Midtown. The sites of the original twin towers have been transformed to two reservoirs, the owner said it’s the wishes of the citizens. The location of new tower is where the destroyed 6 World Trade Center situated.
Location: The address of One World Trade Center is 285 Fulton Street, Manhattan.Īlthough it is the rebuilt project of the original One World Trade Center, the new tower is not built on the same site of the original tower, but northwest of it. The number 1776 of the height in feet represents the year of 1776 when United States Declaration of Independence was signed, in fact the total height of the tower is 546m or 1792 feet as there’s a little skinny component of the antenna beyond the point of 541m, as shown below: A thin needle atop the antenna brings the tower's total height to 546mĪs of 2022, One World Trade Center ranks the 8th among all the tall buildings over the world by architectural height.īelow is a video showing the height difference between One World Trade Center and other tallest buildings in the world.
In the original design there’s a spire installed atop the roof, but got replaced by a bare antenna in 2012, confusingly CTBUH still maintain the height of 1776 feet for the tower even after the spire had been replaced by the plain antenna, which always doesn’t count in architectural height. Height: Architectural-541 meters (1776 feet), Roof-417meters (1368 feet)Īccording to CTBUH, the architectural height of One World Trade Center is 1776 feet or 541 meters, and 1368 feet or 417 meters without antenna atop the roof, the architectural height of the tower is temporally ranked first in New York City and the United States, as well as the whole West Hemisphere, but if judged by the roof it’s the 3rd tallest in New York City, 4th tallest in the United States, after Willis Tower in Chicago, Central Park Tower and 432 Park Avenue in Midtown New York. Today there are lots of buildings named World Trade Center all over the world, the name rights of World Trade Center had been purchased by an organization called World Trade Center Association (WTCA) in 1995, nearly all the buildings in the world named World Trade Center are authorized by WTCA, same for One World Trade Center, the owner of the tower had given an amount of office space to WTCA in exchange of the name of World Trade Center. The tower was once called Freedom Tower, for its left-centered spire in its former design resembles the raising arm of the Statue of Liberty, now that name had been abandoned, in 2009 the owner of the tower had stated precisely that the name of the tower had been changed to One World Trade Center. The official name of the building is One World Trade Center, also briefly known as 1 WTC, it’s the tallest and the main tower of 4 new towers planned to be built for the redevelopment of World Trade Center, it together with 4WTC were the first two towers built in the redevelopment of World Trade Center, and the name of One World Trade Center is same with the original World Trade Center North Tower. The skyscraper is a popular attraction in New York City, it has an observation deck on the top called "One World Observatory", visitors can get on and enjoy the view of the city from the sky.īook admission tickets for One World Observatoryīelow are the facts about One World Trade Center and the related information.
Previously known as Freedom Tower, it is currently the tallest building in New York City. One World Trade Center is a supertall skyscraper in New York City, in the United States.
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