One World Trade Center, also called One WTC and the Freedom Tower, is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City, designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. It is the tallest building in the United States and the Western Hemisphere and the seventh tallest in the world, standing on the northwest corner of the sixteen acre World Trade Center site, on the footprint of the original 6 World Trade Center. It carries the same name as the North Tower of the original World Trade Center, destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Building Type LocationNew York City, United States 1 Completed Year Height (m)Height to the tip of its spire, matching its symbolic 1,776-foot design height. Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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1. Wikipedia: One World Trade Center
WikipediaLead paragraph, sentence identifying it as the tallest building in the United States
Designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, One World Trade Center is the tallest building in the United States
Lead paragraph, sentence naming Lower Manhattan, New York City as its location
is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
Lead paragraph, sentence giving its opening date of November 3, 2014
The building opened on November 3, 2014
Lead paragraph, sentence on the spire completion bringing it to full height
bringing the tower to its full height of 1,776 feet (541 m)
Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
One World Trade Center, also called One WTC and the Freedom Tower, is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City, designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. It is the tallest building in the United States and the Western Hemisphere and the seventh tallest in the world, standing on the northwest corner of the sixteen acre World Trade Center site, on the footprint of the original 6 World Trade Center. It carries the same name as the North Tower of the original World Trade Center, destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
- In Style: Contemporary architecture, Infobox style field: Contemporary modern
Uses Element: Steel, Wikipedia lead
The tower's steel structure was topped out on August 30, 2012.
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