One World Trade Center is expected to be completed next year or in early 2014.
Behind the memorial could be seen the gleaming bulk of One World Trade Center, now three-quarters completed.
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The spire will serve a television broadcast facility housed in One World Trade Center, the press release said.
It is located one block west of the new 104-storey One World Trade Center (also known as the Freedom Tower).
While under construction, One World Trade Center became New York City's tallest building a year ago, standing 1, 271 feet above street-level.
Under construction since 2006, One World Trade Center surpassed the Empire State Building (1, 250 feet) as the city's tallest structure in April.
From his lofty perch on the 105th floor of New York's One World Trade Center, the managing general partner of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.
The visit will be a preview of the One World Trade Center topping-off ceremony, which will symbolize the near-completion of the iconic building's framework.
In addition to holding the steel contract at One World Trade Center, DCM is putting up steel for 4 World Trade Center, a 72-story tower.
DCM's woes stem largely from the station, which features giant steel arches that soar over a large train hall, and the 1, 776-foot-tall One World Trade Center.
On this day, the One World Trade Center workers were lowering in to place the very first ring that would support the spire, or antenna, of the tower.
Vantone is also investing in a mixed hotel-residential property in New York being developed by Durst, a real estate firm that owns a stake in One World Trade Center.
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And it was on hand at the early stages of rebuilding, as it won a contract to put up steel for the site's signature tower, One World Trade Center, in 2006.
Meanwhile in Downtown Manhattan, One World Trade Center (formerly known as the Freedom Tower) is slated to open its doors in 2013, adding 2.6 million in new office space to the mix.
In part, DCM appears to have underestimated costs: For instance, the company has told the Port Authority it believes it may lose money on One World Trade Center, people familiar with the matter said.
And here in the US, we were excited to peep some beautiful new renderings of One World Trade Center, showing New York City's tallest new building from a number of different vantage points.
If it didn't have the spire, One World Trade Center would be shorter than the Willis Tower in Chicago, which stands at 1, 451 feet and currently has the title of tallest building in the U.S., not including its own antennas.
Friday's final installation, raising the building's height to 1, 776 feet, makes One World Trade Center the tallest skyscraper in the U.S. and third-tallest in the world, although building experts dispute whether the spire is actually an antenna a crucial distinction in measuring the building's height.
New York (CNN) -- Construction crews at the 16-acre World Trade Center site will raise the final two sections of a 408-foot spire to the top of One World Trade Center on Monday morning, making the building the tallest in the Western Hemisphere, according to the site's management.
Bart Sullivan, a senior vice president at WSP Cantor Seinuk, a firm that handles engineering for buildings like One World Trade Center, says building a residential skyscraper is generally more challenging than building a tall office building, partly because residential buildings have fewer internal columns and other core structural elements.
The addition of the spire, and its raising of the building's height to 1, 776 feet, makes One World Trade Center the tallest structure in the U.S. and third-tallest in the world, although building experts dispute whether the spire is actually an antenna a crucial distinction in measuring the building's height.
Public records show that Marin, Yale-educated attorney, has former addresses in New York including one at 7 World Trade Center.
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It took weeks, Mikkelson said, for a European tourist to come forward as the creator of doctored photos of a man on a balcony of one of the World Trade Center towers with a plane bearing down.
"I don't think that it's appropriate to build this way again, " said Peter Gadiel, whose 23-year-old son, a worker at the World Trade Center, was one of the victims.
New York police say what appears to be part of the landing gear of one of the jets flown into the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 has been found.
Cardiff-born investment banker Paul Roles, who works 20 minutes away from the World Trade Center, said one of the first things he did was to try to contact Morgan Stanley colleagues working there.
Today, the Slurry Wall is one of the most haunting features of the World Trade Center Memorial Museum.
Borders, the number two bookseller in the United States, lost one of its own stores that was located in the World Trade Center.
European authorities consider this news credible, and have disclosed that Mohammed Atta--one of the terrorists responsible for the early September attack on the World Trade Center--may have also attended the July meeting between ETA and al-Qaeda in Barcelona.
No-one in the Hoglan household was aware of the tragedy unfolding at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon until they turned on the TV.
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