One World Trade Center

1:4000 scale miniature paper model

Originally known as the Freedom Tower, this 86-story supertall skyscraper and its antenna reach the symbolic height of 1,776 feet. Daniel Liebeskind won the architecture competition to rebuild the World Trade Center site but the final design was by David Childs. A windowless reinforced concrete podium with the same square footprint as the original twin towers supports the tapered glass tower.

Read more:

• Time lapse video of the construction of the skyscraper
• Inhabitat reviews the numerous changes in design of the tower
• "Daniel Libeskind's World Trade Center Change of Heart" New Yorker article
• Offical website of One World Trade Center
• Battle for Ground Zero: Inside the Political Struggle to Rebuild the World Trade Center, by Elizabeth Greenspan, Palgrave Macmillan (2013)