Ground Zero New York photo: Andrew McRae, 2007

World Trade Centre Tower - News:
99 Church Street Tower
2008-
Robert A. M. Stern Architects

Image credit: dbox Courtesy of: Silverstein Properties
World Trade Centre Tower

WTC 5 - World Trade Center Five
2007-13
KPF
40 storeys - J.P. Morgan Chase headquarters
Replaces the Deutsche Bank building damaged in 2001

View of 7 WTC Across Church Street:

Image credit: Joe Woolhead I Courtesy of: Silverstein Properties I Taken: January 22, 2008

World Trade Centre - proposed buildings
Images of buildings by Sir Norman Foster, Lord Richard Rogers and Fumihiko Maki unveiled 8 Sep 2006

Location: east end of the WTC site
Date: 2007-12
Developer: Larry A. Silverstein / Port Authority of New York New Jersey
Architects: Foster & Partners, Richard Rogers Partnership and Maki & Associates

Foster and Partners : World Trade Centre Tower Two - 2.4 m sqft
Richard Rogers Partnership : World Trade Centre Tower Three - 2.0 m sqft
Maki and Associates : World Trade Centre Tower Four - 1.8 m sqft

Midtown View to WTC:

Image credit: dbox Courtesy of: Silverstein Properties

World Trade Centre Tower Two - Foster and Partners


Credit: Foster + Partners I Courtesy of: Silverstein Properties

World Trade Centre Tower Three - Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners


Image credits: RSHP, Team Macarie I Courtesy of: Silverstein Properties

World Trade Centre Tower Four - Maki and Associates


Image credit: Maki and Associates I Courtesy of: Silverstein Properties

World Trade Center Five - KPF


World Financial Center, West St, Battery Park City, Lower Manhattan
1986
Cesar Pelli & Associates

Ground Zero New York photo, WTC7 on right: Andrew McRae, 2007
WFC1, WFC2, WFC3, WF4 + Winter Garden building to west
Postmodern towers - alternate tops: ziggurat, dome, cut & full pyramids

WFC1
1986
40 storey
Top: cropped pyramid

WFC2
1987
51 storey
Top: dome

WFC3
1985
54 storey
Top: pyramid

WFC4
1988
- storey
Top: ziggurat

World Financial Center New York : Cesar Pelli & Associates


WTC7 New York photo: Andrew McRae, 2007

World Trade Centre Tower Seven
First to be completed, 2006
Architect: David Childs - SOM Architects
228m high, 52 storeys
2002-06
For: Silverstein Properties
Image online late Mar 2007
The original wtc7 from1987 was destroyed 2001


WTC7 New York photo: Andrew McRae, 2007

World Trade Centre Tower Seven : SOM Architects

Key Manhattan building no longer standing:

Site of World Trade Center
New York (destroyed 2001)
1966-73
Minoru Yamasaki, Emery Roth & Sons
One World Trade Center was 417m high, Two World Trade Center was 415m high




Ground Zero New York photo: Andrew McRae, 2007

World Trade Centre Tower - Previous News 2005:
Freedom Tower - Site of World Trade Center
Ground Zero, Lower Manhattan
2004-
Daniel Libeskind Architects + David Childs of SOM Architects
Controversial towers to replace the World Trade Centre skyscrapers lost to New York in 2001. The main skyscraper by Libeskind was to be a significant number of feet high - 1,776 feet - to mark a key American date in history - United States Year of Independence; the building was largely handed over to architect David Childs. Designed to be the tallest tower in the world for the site leaseholder - real estate developer Larry Silverstein. The angular design is typical for Libeskind but here echoes the Statue of Liberty. A Snohetta building was also due to appear but the situation is in a state of flux.

Daniel Libeskind was commissioned to design the Freedom Tower after a strongly
contested World Trade Center design competition in Feb 2003, beating architects
such as Norman Foster and in the end winning a two-strong shortlist.

Six teams were shortlisted in Sep 2002 out of over 400 submissions, including:
Foster & Partners
Richard Meier Architect
Studio Daniel Libeskind
United Architects
Think Group

World Trade Center Towers - Article on Ground Zero / World Trade Center

Gehry Partners LLP and Snøhetta were selected as architects for the World Trade Center cultural complex by Lower Manhattan Development Corporation in Dec 2004

New York Skyscrapers


Ground Zero site New York - photo: Andrew McRae, 2007

In 1946 New York State Legislature set up a WTC Corporation to analyse such a facility. The World Trade Centre idea formed in 1960* and preliminary drawings were drawn up by SOM, who slipped in behind Libeskind 43 years later (via David Childs). Michigan-based Minori Yamasaki and Emery Roth & Sons completed the Twin Towers between 1966 and 1973. Yamasaki had over a hundred schemes, one being a single 150-storey tower. Towers 1 & 2, nicknamed ‘David & Nelson’ after the supportive Rockefeller Brothers became quintessential New York symbols, appearing on a large proportion of postcards.

World Financial Center
-
1986
Cesar Pelli, Architect
Including the Winter Garden

World Trade Centre - New Museum Complex
Ground Zero
2006?
Snohetta, Architects
International Freedom Centre + Drawing Centre. Also named the WTC Cultural
Center. Snøhetta Architects became well known with their Alexandria library in
Egypt which won a major architecture competition: Snohetta Architects

Snohetta have an architects office in New York based at 50 Broad St

WTC Cultural Center New York : Snøhetta Architects

Another New York building by Daniel Libeskind:
Condominium tower in Union City, New Jersey.

New York Architects

Hearst Tower New York

World Trade Center Tower initial design : Daniel Libeskind Architects



World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe


Ground Zero site New York - photo: Andrew McRae, 2007

New York Architecture

World Financial Center New York developer + architect : Canary Wharf
Olympia and York + Cesar Pelli

Buildings / photos for the World Trade Centre Towers page welcome:
info@e-architect.co.uk

World Trade Center New York : Architecture page - adrian welch / isabelle lomholt

New York World Trade Center - Website: www.wtc.com + www.renewnyc.com