Wednesday 25 July 2012

One World Trade Center

Height comparison of buildings in New York City, with One World Trade Center shown at far left.  One World Trade Center rises above the lower Manhattan skyline and the National September 11 Memorial, lower right, in New York.                                                      


The One World Trade Center formerly known as the Freedom Tower is one of the main buildings of the new World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City and is being built on the site of the 6 World Trade Center that was destroyed along with the North and South towers of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in 2001. It is estimated that when the One World Trade Center is completed in 2013 it would have cost $3.8 billion dollars.  It will be 541 meters high (1,776 feet) which will make it the tallest office building in the world surpassing the Taipei 101 building in Taiwan by 32 meters (105 feet) and the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere surpassing the Willis Tower in chicargo by 99 meters (325 feet), when its completed it will also be the third tallest skyscraper in the world behind the Abraj Al-Bait Towers in Mecca Saudi Arabia and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and the 6th tallest freestanding structure in the world. The building is mostly owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, some of the tenants in the One World Trade Center will be Government tenants from the state of New York and the the General Services Administration, a chinese company bassed in Beijing called Vantone Industrial Co will have a "China Center" in the building which will combine business and cultural facilities and will represent chinese cultural and business links to the United States of America, also it will serve American companies that want to conduct business in china. Another company called Condé Nast Publications will move its headquarters and offices of its magazines to the One World Trade Center. The One World Trade Center has been featured in the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 which is set in the year 2016, the 2012 movie called The Dictator, the movie called Men in Black 3, the new Batman movie called The Dark Knight Rises, the movie called Madagascar 3, the movie called Click, the film called Babylon A.D, and in the TV series Fringe episode called The Last Sam Weiss.

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