Posted on 11/13/2013 10:08:16 AM PST by Uncle Chip
One World Trade Center has officially been declared the tallest building in the U.S. at 1,776 feet today.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat made the decision on Tuesday after debates over whether One WTC's 408-foot spire could be considered part of the total height.
One World Trade Center had faced some stiff competition from the Willis Tower in Chicago - coincidentally the city where the committee is based.
Rising from the ashes of 9/11, the new World Trade Center tower has punched above the New York skyline to reach its powerfully symbolic height of 1,776 feet and become the tallest building in the country.
The committee of architects, recognized as the arbiters on world building heights, had met to decide whether the tower in the Big Apple or the Windy City was the loftiest.
One World Trade Center stands as a monument to those killed in the terrorist attacks and a ruling against the spire would have dimmed the significance of its height which symbolizes America's founding year of 1776.
Without the needle, the building measures 1,368 feet....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It is the only minaret-shaped antenna on any skyscraper in the world.
So they top it off with a minaret???
Is the spire an antenna -- or a minaret???
Is that the real reason why it is being counted as part of the building??
the fix was in. new york got to count the spire, but chicago can’t. doesn’t sound fair, evenhanded, nor consistent to me. and i am NOT a chicago fan
Just looked at the pictures and you are correct.
What a disgrace. Not counting the antenna, the Chicago tower is much higher!
“The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat” REALLY?!
I like the Freedom Tower and I’m glad it won, but does anyone else get a creepy feeling that it’s called “One World Trade Center?” You know, because there used to be “two” World Trade Centers?
OK Chicago, put a cross on your building and make it 1812 feet tall.
We are quickly becoming the nation that lies, about everything.
Like Dallas...They didn't want John to go there.
So totally representative of what our nation has become. If we don’t like the truth we simply declare a new truth. Just like Obama, it is deemed to be something that it is not simply because a certain group of people want it to be so so badly.
Just a 1776 foot target.
All they need to do now is replace the star at the top with a star and crescent.
The top of the building should be the top of the building, not the top of some tacked on ornament.
Wow, that's out there...way out there!
The minaret is up there to ward off any terrorist attack.
It is a sacrilege in Islam to attack a minaret.
If you include feet about sea level, Sears Tower is the tallest building in the World.
OK, maybe second tallest building in the world...unless the spires count.
What about those native huts in the highlands of Peru?
Or the tents at base camp near Mt. Everest?
Ever read Canticle for Liebowitz...Stunning premonition
Oh! They must mean the Sears Tower. I get it now.
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