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Facts
Official Name One World Trade Center
Complex Name World Trade Center
Former / Other Name Freedom Tower
Type building
Status Topped Out
Country United States
State New York
City New York City
Street Address / Map 1 World Trade Center
Building Function office
Structural Material composite
Proposed 2005
Start of Construction 2006
Completion 2014
Official Websites One World Trade Center
World Trade Center
Figures
Height: Architectural 541.3 meter / 1776 feet
Height: Occupied 382.3 meter / 1254 feet
Height: To Tip 546.2 meter / 1792 feet
Height: Observatory 382.3 meter / 1254 feet
Floors Above Ground 104
Floors Below Ground 5
# of Elevators 73
Top Elevator Speed 10.16 m/s
Tower GFA 325,279 m² / 3,501,274 ft²
Companies Involved
Owner 1 World Trade Center LLC
Developer Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Design Architect Skidmore Owings & Merrill
Structural Engineers WSP Cantor Seinuk;
Schlaich Bergermann und Partner
MEP Engineer Jaros Baum & Bolles
Project Managers Skidmore Owings & Merrill;
STV;
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Main Contractor Tishman Construction
Material Suppliers Permasteelisa Group
Other Consultants RWDI;
ThyssenKrupp;
Dow Corning Corporation;
AECOM
Videos
Keynote Talk - Breaking Ground
D.Libeskind (Studio Daniel Libeskind), CTBUH Chicago Conference

Technical Papers
Elevators for Fire Service Access and Occupant Egress
R. Bukowski (Rolf Jensen & Associates), CTBUH Journal

News Articles
Beacon Rises on One World Trade Center
The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, 2013-05
Three-story 1WTC Observation Deck Unveiled to Press
CTBUH Global News, 2013-04
J.R. Clancy creates custom beacon for One World Trade Center
livedesignonline, 2013-03
Video: One World Trade Escalators
CTBUH Global News, 2013-01
Combining the World's Great Skyscrapers into One Skyline
CTBUH Global News, 2013-01
World Trade Center 'Spire' Construction Begins Today
CTBUH Global News, 2012-12
1WTC's 'Antenna' Surrendered by Canadian Fabricator
CTBUH Global News, 2012-11
Fabricator Withholds One World Trade Center Structure
CTBUH Global News, 2012-10
Eleven Years Later: A WTC Status Report
Associated Press, 2012-09
New Images Released of One World Trade Center
CTBUH Global News, 2012-08
The Emotional Impact of New Towers
The Atlantic, 2012-08
One World Trade Center Signs Major Lease
CTBUH Global News, 2012-07
The New Yorker Editorializes on One World Trade Center
The New Yorker, 2012-07
Site Asks Readers to Name Best (and Worst) Tall Buildings
Curbed, 2012-06
New York Times Details Changes in World Trade Center Design
The New York Times, 2012-06
Fire at One World Trade Center
The New York Times, 2012-06
One World Trade Center Podium Revealed
New York Post, 2012-05
One World Trade Center Morse Code Beacon Cancelled
New York Post, 2012-05
World Trade Center Height in Question
The New York Times, 2012-05
One World Trade Center Reaches Milestone
Bloomberg, 2012-05
Video: Interview with One WTC Lead Designer
CTBUH Global News, 2012-05
Should Antennas Count in Height Measurements
MSNBC.com, 2012-04
Video: Time Lapse of One World Trade Center Construction
ABC, 2012-04
Video: On Top of One World Trade Center
CTBUH Global News, 2012-04
One World Trade Center Reaches 100 Floors
News24, 2012-04
Tower Rises, And So Does Its Price Tag
The Wall Street Journal, 2012-01
Ninety floors... and counting: The breathtaking views from One World Trade Center (and there's still 14 storeys to go)
MailOnline, 2011-12
Q&A: How to Design a 1,776-Foot Tower
The Wall Street Journal, 2011-11
1 World Trade gets its glass pedestal
Crain's New York Business, 2011-11
Redefining Manhattan's skyline: Incredible new pictures of Ground Zero show substantial progress made on 9/11 Memorial
MailOnline, 2011-07
New Condé Nast NYC HQ Will Be High-Tech, Green and Ultrasafe
WIRED, 2011-05
Pretty 1 WTC Shattered by Bunker Reality
The New York Observer, 2011-05
A World Trade Center Progress Report
The New York Times, 2011-05
Redefining New York City's skyscrapers
Crain's New York Business, 2011-05
58 storeys and counting... 'Freedom Tower' rises above Ground Zero to take its place on the New York skyline
MailOnline, 2011-03
Ground Zero's Morass Shows Gains Before Anniversary
Bloomberg, 2011-02
Weekly World Trade Photo Update
Architect's Newspaper, 2010-12
World Trade Center Tower Begins to Show Its Shimmering Face
The Tribeca Trib, 2010-11
In Skyscraper at Ground Zero, Sentiment Trumped Numbers
The New York Times, 2010-09
New York's World Trade Center Complex Is Rising Rapidly
The New York Times, 2010-09
World Trade Center Developer and Port Authority Come to Agreement
nj.com, 2010-08
Condé Nast to Move to Skyscraper at Ground Zero
The New York Times, 2010-08
Front-Runner Emerges for WTC Tower Partnership
The New York Times, 2010-07
One World Trade Center and Conde Nast: Fairytale Marriage?
Daily Maverick, 2010-05
Progress on All WTC Sites - At Last
New York Post, 2010-05
Two New Towers May End the Impasse at Ground Zero
The New York Times, 2010-03
Freedom At 200 Feet
A|N Blog, 2010-02
Does the Freedom Tower Still Stack up to 1776 Feet?
Chicago Tribune, 2009-11
Steel Columns Hoisted at Trade Center Site
The New York Times, 2009-08
World Trade Center's Elevators to Be Among the Fastest
The New York Times, 2009-02
Not Yet on the Skyline, But Above Street Level
The New York Times, 2008-05