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4 World Trade Center
(pictured here), the first
occupiable building on the
16-acre Ground Zero site,
opened in mid-November.
7 World Trade Center, just
north of Ground Zero,
opened in 2006.
4 World Trade Center Opens, and One World Trade Center
Named Tallest U.S. Building
The 72-story 4 World Trade Center, designed by Fumihiko Maki,
opened in mid-November. Encased in mirrored glass, the $2 billion
tower features a massive, polished black granite wall reflecting the
adjacent September 11 Memorial. The skyscraper is the first of the new
buildings to open at Ground Zero. The building includes approximately
2.3 million square feet, although only two government tenants had
signed on at press time: The Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey and the City of New York. Approximately 40 percent of the
building remains unleased.
The building opened days after its neighbor, One World Trade
Center, was deemed America's tallest building by the Council on Tall
Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). At 1,776 feet, the skyscraper
surpassed the 1,450-feet-tall Willis Tower-formerly the Sears Tower
and previous record holder-in Chicago, thanks to its massive spire.
One World Trade Center will open in 2014.
A parallelogram up to its top third, 4 World Trade Center narrows
to a smaller trapezoid. Its angles evoke the twisting shapes in Daniel
Libeskind's masterplan for the site, according to Osamu Sassa, the
project architect with Maki's firm. The facade's 13 ½-foot-by-5-foot
glass plates seem to disappear on blue-sky days. "One of the things we
really tried to do was just to create this really clean, reflective, abstract
form," Sassa said in a statement. "It has a very ephemeral presence.
Other times it'll be much more distinct." -STAFF
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