But the British reputation as the world center of horology rested principally on innovation.
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.
"We are 100% committed to building 3 World Trade Center to the top as quickly as possible, " said Janno Lieber, Mr. Silverstein's deputy who oversees the World Trade Center development.
The World Financial Center, a complex of four towers designed by Cesar Pelli, is situated across the street from the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center.
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.
Standing on the roof of Two World Financial Center, amid mounds of debris that still litter the streets and rooftops around the World Trade Center, New York police officers -- among them former Marines -- raised the flags of the United States, Marines, Navy, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard.
At the Nasdaq OMX Group, a single technician sits in front of eight flat-panel computer screens in a quiet operations center, 51 stories above the World Trade Center construction site.
Even so, the privately held Embarcadero Center is worth twice as much as the World Trade Center was, on a per-square-foot basis.
They range from Hong Kong's 118-story International Commerce Center, home to a penthouse infinity pool and one of the world's highest hotels, to the slightly taller Shanghai World Financial Center, which is known as "the bottle opener" for the trapezoidal gap at the top.
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He points to San Francisco's highly successful Embarcadero Center, designed and codeveloped by his father, as a possible model for a new World Trade Center.
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.
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.
The mayor dismissed concerns about air quality near the World Trade Center, which contained asbestos.
The 72-story 4 World Trade Center is under construction at the southeast corner of the site.
Just to the west of the World Trade Center site, Brookfield Office Properties Inc.
Mr. Silverstein hopes he can resume the upward momentum on 3 World Trade Center soon.
Of course, businesses that had offices in the World Trade Center have been immediately affected.
Her brother, Robert Sliwak, was a Cantor-Fitzgerald employee who died in the World Trade Center.
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Three hundred forty-three New York City firefighters died at the World Trade Center that day.
Patrick's Cathedral, the United Nations and the World Trade Center site were being especially monitored.
New York City last scoured through World Trade Center materials in 2007 and in 2010.
That's the proposed replacement for the fallen twin towers at the World Trade Center site.
"I'm flabbergasted, " said Sally Regenhard, whose firefighter son was killed at the World Trade Center.
They live several blocks from the World Trade Center and had dealt with that with equanimity.
The Oklahoma City bombing and the earlier World Trade Center attack demonstrated the risk.
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It also has a detail of about 70 cops at the World Trade Center.
One World Trade Center is expected to be completed next year or in early 2014.
Diana Massaroli, whose husband died in the World Trade Center, certainly has no questions about it.
Seeing the World Trade Center up close for the first time in months affected me deeply.
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Others came forward with memorabilia from the World Trade Center they carried with them into Baghdad.
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