One World Trade Center Facts And Information - The Tower Info

One World Trade Center is a supertall skyscraper in New York City, in the United States. Previously known as Freedom Tower, it is currently the tallest building in New York City and the United States.

Below are the facts about One World Trade Center and the related information.

About the name:

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 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 explicitly that the name of the tower had been changed to One World Trade Center.

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.

Height: Architectural-541 meters (1776 feet), Roof-417meters (1368 feet) According 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 Manhattan. And there are also a lot of skyscrapers under construction and proposed in New York City, many of them will have higher roof heights than One World Trade Center.

In the original design there’s a spire installed atop the roof, but was replaced by a bare antenna in 2012, confusingly CTBUH still maintains the height of 1776 feet for the tower even after the spire had been replaced by the plain antenna, which always doesn’t count in architectural height. 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:

As of 2022, One World Trade Center ranks the 8th among the tallest buildings around the world by architectural height.

Below is a video showing the height difference between One World Trade Center and other tallest buildings in the world.

Location: The address of One World Trade Center is 285 Fulton Street, Manhattan.