He arranged them carefully, put coins underneath some fruit to vary their height, and painted their structure and patterns.

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Twenty feet wide, it is the building's organizing element and circulation spine, connecting the first four floors and continuing upward with bridges across the space and a narrower stair above as it ascends to the structure's full nine-story height.

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The structure, which has a span of 6.4m (21ft) and a height of 1.3m (4ft 3in), is being built on the site of a disused horse bridge.

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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.

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Even the designers and owners of the Sears Tower did not include the antennae in its announced height (at least not until their 23-year-old record was challenged by the Malaysian structure).

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