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The building occupies a 200-foot (61 m) square, with an area of 40,000 square feet (3,700 m 2), nearly identical to the footprints of the original Twin Towers. The tower is built upon a 185-foot (56 m) tall windowless concrete base, designed to protect it from truck bombs and other ground-level attacks. [121]
10 wrz 2024 · Unlike the twin towers, however, One WTC tapers at the top. It is capped by another, smaller square—measuring about 150 feet (46 meters) per side—which is rotated 45° so that the midpoints of the square at the bottom are the corners of the square at the top.
Until the 2001 attack, it was notable for its huge twin towers, each of which had 110 stories, that formed a distinctive feature of the New York skyline. The roof of One World Trade Center reached to 1,368 feet (417 metres), and Two World Trade Center was 1,362 feet (415 metres) tall.
The North Tower stood over a quarter-mile tall at 1,368 feet. Its transmission tower with broadcast antennas added about 360 feet more. The South Tower stood over a quarter-mile tall at 1,362 feet. Each of the Twin Towers had 110 floors. Each tower’s footprint and floors were approximately an acre in size.
The building rises to 1,368 feet (417 m), the height of the original World Trade Center's North Tower, and its antenna rises to the symbolic height of 1,776 feet (541 m). This height refers to 1776, the year in which the United States Declaration of Independence was signed.
22 lis 2013 · Building, with observation deck and antenna, height: 1,776 feet, for the year the Declaration of Independence was signed. Base: 200 feet square, the same as the original Twin Towers. Stories:...
5 sty 2020 · Another notable feature designed into the structure is the fact that from the base to the parapet, or top of the roof, the structure is the same height as the twin towers, 1,368 feet (417...
