US: The New World Trade Center

World Trade Center, or the Freedom Tower, is the main building of the new World Trade Center complex under construction in Lower Manhattan in New York City, USA. The tower will be located in the northwest corner of the 16-acre (65,000 m²) World Trade Center site, bound by Vesey, West, Washington and Fulton streets. Construction on below-ground utility relocations, footings, and foundations for the 1,776 feet (541 m) Freedom Tower began on April 27, 2006. On December 19, 2006, the first steel columns were installed in the building's foundation. Three other high-rise office buildings are planned for the site along Greenwich Street, and they will surround the World Trade Center Memorial, which is under construction. The area will also be home to a museum dedicated to the history of the site.
The events of September 11^th, 2001 will never be forgotten by the people of New York City or America as a whole. The nature of the terrorist attacks on that day, and the brave response of the heroes of New York City’s Police and Fire Departments clearly showed, in one day, the very worst and very best aspects of humanity. If you visit New York City, take a break from the big, brassy tourist attractions that embody the city, and visit the World Trade Center site, also commonly known as New York Ground Zero, at the corners of Liberty and Church Streets in lower Manhattan.

 
Height

The roof of the top floor of the Freedom Tower will be 1,362 feet (415 m), the same as 2 World Trade Center.A six feet parapet on top of the roof will bring the building's height to 1,368 feet (417 m), the same as 1 World Trade Center. If the spire and antenna height (the criteria of two categories of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat) are included, Freedom Tower will stand at a symbolic 1,776 feet (541 m), marking 1776, the year of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence. Freedom Tower was originally planned to be the tallest building in the world, but will no longer obtain this title, as the Burj Dubai has already broken the record for the tallest building at 2,684 feet (818 m).

The World Trade Center's South Tower had an outdoor rooftop observation deck at 1,377 feet (420 m) and another indoor observation deck at 1,310 feet (399 m). The Freedom Tower's indoor observation deck, at a height of 1,265 feet (386 m), will not be as high as either of the observation decks destroyed in the South Tower.