2024-12-22T00:57:01-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/90601592/atop-tower-one-aka-1-world-trade-center Nam Henderson 2014-01-06T13:41:00-05:00 >2014-01-07T19:33:41-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/2c/2czfojb5bysjvqf0.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>It&rsquo;s okay that all this impeccably tailored corporate design glosses over the past and hides the saga of destruction, dismantlement, and rebuilding. The site is becoming so blessedly normal!</p></em><br /><br /><p> With&nbsp;Four World Trade Center open and One World Trade Center nearly complete, Justin Davidson recently visited the WTC to survey the results of almost a decade of politics, wrangling and construction and took with a visit to the top.</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/51147794/is-4-world-trade-center-better-than-the-big-one-inside-the-other-tower-about-to-top-out HotSoup 2012-06-12T13:49:00-04:00 >2012-06-12T15:09:14-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ba/ba57gyttk5hjggdw.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>That a 977-foot tower has gone unnoticed is partly the point. Designed by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, 4 World Trade Center has a quiet splendor hidden within its still skin. Like the original Twin Tower, 1 World Trade Center still imposes itself on the skyline. By contrast, 4 World Trade Center becomes a part of it.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Video inside the new 4 WTC, which is two floors from completion.</p>