With One World Trade Center, also known to New Yorkers as the Freedom Tower, dominating the Manhattan skyline, Danish architectural firm BIG has unveiled its plans for the fourth and final skyscraper to be built on the site left vacant following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001.
Two World Trade Center will be an 80-story tower standing 1,340ft (125m) tall, and is designed to frame the 9/11 memorial site. BIG architect Bjarke Ingels has said that designing the impressive tower meant working under a brief of conceiving a building where “diversity becomes unity.”
Using the code-name Project Gotham, Ingels has now finalised the plans of the building, which will become the new headquarters 21st Century Fox and News Corp, owned by billionaire media magnate Rupert Murdoch – who signed the lease last week.
Two World Trade Center is expected to be fully finished by 2020, and you can see the images of the new tower in the gallery below:
