In epic photos: One World Trade Center rises from Ground Zero New York
NEW YORK City’s One World Trade Center is up. It occupies part of the Ground Zero site when the Twin Towers once stood. When completed, the tower will be the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere – 1776ft high. Visitors will be able to stand on the observation deck – floors 100 to 102 – and look out at the great city. After 11 years that wonderful view is back. We’ll never forget 9/11. But – you know what – up yours Al Qaeda. In your face. We win:
Architect Daniel Libeskind, second from right, presents his winning vision for a new World Trade Center to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, second from left, and New York Governor George Pataki right, at a news conference in New York. Libeskind’s design was selected by the Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Corporation as the one that will be erected on the site where the World Trade Center once stood.
Workers prepare a floor before pouring a concrete slab at One World Trade Center, Wednesday, April 7, 2010 in New York.
An ironworker walks on a steel beam at One World Trade Center, Thursday, April 15, 2010.
Laborer Jim Hayner carries a sheet of plywood while working at the World Trade Center.
The Tribute in Light rises above the construction cranes on One World Trade Center, and the lower New York skyline.
The Fire Department of New York’s Ladder Company 3 fire truck is lowered by crane into the National September 11 Memorial Museum, in front of One World Trade, in New York, Wednesday, July 20, 2011. This fire truck was used to evacuate people from the World Trade Center towers during the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
One World Trade Center, left, rises in the skyline in this aerial photo, July 27, 2011
One World Trade Center has reached the 80th floor in this aerial photo, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011.
A test of the Tribute in Light rises above One World Trade Center and lower Manhattan, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011
Visitors to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum circle one of two reflecting pools, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011
A torn safety net on One World Trade Center provides a window view of the Manhattan skyline, Monday, April 30, 2012
Ironworkers Jim Brady, left, and Billy Geoghan release a steel cable after connecting a steel beam between two columns at the top of One World Trade Center
Obama leaves his mark.
In this Aug. 2, 2012 photo, a construction worker signs a ceremonial steel beam at One World Trade Center in New York. The beam was signed by President Barack Obama with the notes: “We remember,” ”We rebuild” and “We come back stronger!” during a ceremony at the construction site June 14. The beam, having since adorned with the autographs of workers and police officers at the site, will be sealed into the structure of the tower
The first section of a 408-foot spire is hoisted by crane to the top of One World Trade Center, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 in New York. The spire will be fully assembled in 2013 and the tower will top out at 1776 feet.
This Jan. 15, 2013 photo shows drawing of a car on the 104th floor of One World Trade Center in New York. Construction workers finishing New York’s tallest building at the World Trade Center are leaving their personal marks on the concrete and steel in the form of graffiti.
Legends Chairman & CEO David Checketts, at podium center, of the company that will run the observation deck on the 100th floor of the One World Trade Center building, address a news conference in the venue, in New York, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. The observation deck, that will not open until 2015, will occupy the tower’s 100th through 102nd floors. Elevators will whisk visitors to the top in just one minute but the experience of visiting the attraction will take an hour.
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