These transparent entrances encourage building occupants to flow out into the surrounding plazas, designed as open and green areas for people to gather and relax, and allows access to the memorial honoring the victims of the terrorist attack. Glass canopies and large cable-net walls framed by metal portals define the entrances, which provide for separate access to the observatory lobby on the concourse level, transportation systems, and commercial office space in different sections of the building. The building's overall effect is that of a crystalline form that captures an ever-evolving display of refracted light, as if it were a kaleidoscope. Near its middle, the tower forms a perfect octagon, culminating in a glass parapet whose shape is a square oriented 45 degrees from the base. Given the challenge of taking on such a symbolic project, Childs designed a polyhedral skyscraper to represent the future and hope, but with simplicity and elegance.Īs the tower rises on its cubic base, the square edges are chamfered back, transforming the building's shape into an elongated square antiprism with eight tall isosceles triangles. In 2004, the latter preferred the proposal submitted by David Childs, the architect from Skidmore Owings Merrill (SOM), the firm behind projects including the Willis Tower or the Burj Khalifa. However, there were numerous co-owners with the right to speak and vote, including the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Larry Silverstein, owner of the Twin Towers. The Governor of New York at the time, George Pataki, christened the design as Freedom Tower. It had the same height as the original World Trade Center, crowned with a spire that took the skyscraper height to 541 meters or 1,776 feet, as a reference to the year the United States gained independence. The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced the competition to develop the project, which was won by the architect Daniel Libeskind with a proposal for a symmetrical tower evoking the Statue of Liberty. In 2002, the authorities decided that the Twin Towers would be replaced by office buildings, a museum, a monument in memory of the victims and a park. The One World Trade Center project came about soon after the attack that shocked the world. One World Trade Center, much more than a skyscraper A skyscraper that heals wounds and looks to the future. The tower, design by David Childs from SOM, is located on the site previously occupied by the Twin Towers, destroyed in the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001.
Its importance lies in its emotional value. One World Trade Center is not only the tallest building in New York or the fourth tallest in the world.
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