Things you should know about One World Trade Center
**IT IS CALLED ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER (1WTC) **
Although for a time it was officially called the **Freedom Tower** and is still known by that name on the street. One World Trade Center is the number one World Trade Center complex, built where the Twin Towers were . In fact, One World Trade Center was the name of one of them, the one they attacked first. The set will have five skyscrapers (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 WTC), a 9/11 memorial and museum , the interchange designed by Calatrava, an artistic center and a shopping center. It was designed by David Libeskind in 2002 and redesigned by David Childs.
September 11 Memorial
HIS HEIGHT IS SYMBOLIC
With the antenna it measures **1,776 feet (541 meters) ** ; a height that refers to the year the agreement was signed United States Declaration of Independence . Without the antenna it measures 417 meters exactly the same as the Twin Towers.
The new New York skyline (from New Jersey)
NOT THE TALLEST IN NEW YORK
It only is if you count the antenna. The eternal debate. With an antenna, One World Trade Center measures 1,776 feet, without it, 1,368 (417 meters). Last month they topped what would now be New York's tallest skyscraper: 432 Park Avenue . With its 426.1 meters, without an antenna, this narrow building of private residences (on sale from 17 million dollars to 95 that the penthouse has cost) has altered the skyline of the city from almost any angle.
IT IS NOT THE HIGHEST IN THE UNITED STATES
Once again, not counting the antenna, Willis Tower in Chicago measures 442.1 meters . With antenna, it stays 20 meters below 1WTC.
1,776 feet high (and Independence)
IT'S GREEN
It is built mainly with recycled construction materials . And the glass walls have less iron than these buildings usually have. In addition, some tanks collect rain that will help cool the tower.
THE OBSERVATORY WILL BE ON THE 102nd FLOOR
The One World Observatory will start on the 100th floor, but the large 360 viewing platform will be on the 102nd floor and will be called Skyportal. You will go up to it in some famous Sky Pods elevators. Admission will cost $32 (eight dollars cost the entrance to the Twin Towers in the late nineties) and it will be possible to buy online from the beginning of 2015 . They hope to open it next spring.
Views from the Observatory (opening in 2015)
IT HAS 104 FLOORS
69 of them are for offices ( Condé Nast is already occupying 24 of those floors, from 20 to 44 ) . Underneath it has more than five thousand square meters destined for commerce.
IT IS THE HOPE OF DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN
When the 1WTC Observatory opens to the public, like the rest of the shops and the works of the rest of the complex finish, they hope to reactivate Downtown as a leisure area and not, as it is now, that place of stressed office workers and tourists rushing past the Century 21 memorial and outlet.
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