elpis10: Manhattan: Opens the first skyscraper in point of the Twin Towers

Παρασκευή 24 Ιανουαρίου 2014

Manhattan: Opens the first skyscraper in point of the Twin Towers

The first tower - skyscraper with offices at Ground Zero, to the point where the terrorist attack of 11 September 2001 were the Twin Towers opens its doors in Wednesday , in a move considered historic for the south side of Manhattan , but and overall for the U.S. .
The building of the World Trade Center , will have a height of 541 meters and will be the world's tallest building
Once you get the title of tallest building in the U.S. from its current owner - the Willis Tower in Chicago - who echie height of 441 meters.
The committee Height on High Buildings and Urban Environment announced the " verdict " in Chicago .
The spire of the building , totaling 124 meters or more , it was considered that a permanent architectural element and thus counted at its height, as noted by Anthony Wood, Executive Director of the Committee.
Without the top of the building would have a height of 417 meters and was lower than the Willis Tower, which was formerly known as the Sears Tower.
Both skyscrapers are smaller in height of the tallest building in the world , the Burj Khalifa in Dubai , which reaches 830 meters.
The One World Trade Center was constructed in the southern part of Manhattan , to the point where they were emblematic Twin Towers , which were destroyed in the attacks of September 11, 2001 .
The height - to - foot tower , 1,776 , is a symbolic reference to the year of signature of the U.S. declaration of independence from Great Britain.
The former building of the World Trade Center , destroyed in the terrorist attacks in September 2011 , it became the tallest building in the U.S. when it was launched in 1973 . However , a year after he lost the title of the Sears Tower in Chicago.

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