The new design envisioned a larger tower that twisted to a height of 1,100 feet, with an open-air shaft of windmills surrounded by cables rising 400 feet further. The building was topped by ...

New renderings of 1 World Trade Center show recent design changes to the base and spire of the building, formerly known as the Freedom Tower. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey owns the … ...

And though its grand spire would pierce the sky, the building would house 2.6 million square feet of office space only up to the 60th floor, since the attacks made occupancy at higher levels ...

The tower, the product of compromises between architects Daniel Libeskind and David Childs, will be the tallest building in the world with its spire and antennae reaching 1,776 feet.

NEW YORK - The latest design of the skyscraper being built to replace the World Trade Center covers its 20-story concrete base with thousands of glass prisms and tops it with a lighted spire meant ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- The first of several pieces to the spire that will sit atop Freedom Tower in New York City was lifted 104 stories into place Wednesday.

Dec. 19, 2003: Meanwhile, as architects and planners worked on the Freedom Tower design, crews remained at Ground Zero, removing debris from the toppled World Trade Center towers, and preparing it ...

Most recently, Justin Casquejo, a 16-year-old “daredevil” from Weekhawken, N.J., climbed to the top of the Freedom Tower, and spent two hours at the top of the building, the nation’s tallest.