One World Trade Center: Engineering an Icon – Blog

The Pacific Northwest Crew
I think the problem with building a twin is… it would be too hard to look at for most people.
elitestar
The new tower looks like two towers leaning against each other.
Deann Manochio
My brother helped build this!!!🙏❤
Allen Marvets
I think its beautiful and lot of people are confused on the design, 8 sides to represent both world trade centers as 1, looks amazing
David Butler
Absolutely beautiful building, I so miss the World Trade Center though.
Niklas Enblom
I remember, shortly after September 11th, I already started seeing proposals for different designs for the new building in the newspapers. The shock of that awful day had, for me, just started to wear off. As time went on, I wasn’t so sure whether or not the new building should be called The World Trade Center or the The Freedom Tower. However, a couple of years ago, I was in Manhattan and I took the subway down to The World Trade Center. I came up from the station and I saw this giant sign that said World Trade Center. That was an awesome moment! I said to myself that The World Trade Center is back!!
97warlock ismyname
Theres some who feel they should have replaced the twin towers ………. while this seems to make sense, but think about it for moment. It will Not correct things, it will Not bring anyone back nor remove the horror that took place. People have severe anguish & anxiety & many lives were lost horribly. It was a terrible terrible day for everyone. …. To rebuild a replica would be to remind many of that Horrible day. This change in appearence,to me I think be for the better & let the horror lie in the past & move forward & honor the victims.
NintendoFanBoy07
I think it looks amazing. That building is pretty much standing for the new world we live in today. It’s also a very proud looking building as well. 😊
FastLikeUNO
Beautiful. Just beautiful. A testimony that American engineering is fully planted into the 21st century. 😍
Enigma
I grew up in NY all my life and would look at the Twin Towers every time I went any across bridge especially the Verazzano and they were beautiful. After 9/11 when I would look in that direction it felt like someone ripped my heart out of my chest. They made the NY skyline, you knew when you were getting close to home because you could see them from miles away and this building has nothing on the Twins.
Gabor Horvath
It would be fantastic to work with a company who was responsible for building such a magnificent office tower in the heart of the financial district in New York. Just imagining how much could be learned from the experts at WSP gives me goosebumps.
moebkid14
i’ve been to the bottom of the building and just looked right up, mesmerizing experience. It’s a beautiful thing
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
One World Trade Center is a beautiful new building. It feels amazing living in NYC and seeing it everyday.
GhostPupPolter
I think the design of the new One World Trade Center looks great, the other designs look pretty bad though especially the one that looks like a bunch of stacked boxes like someone was playing a game of Tetris and really sucked at it. Why can’t they just build two and have them both look the same as the new One World Trade Center? i think that would be great because again it would be twin towers but it wouldn’t look exactly the same because i think to just make them exactly the same wouldn’t be right either. It has to convey newness and hope for the future as well as remembrance and our ability to rebuild and i don’t feel the designs of the other ones fit that, they just look too different.
Flaco Fausto
I remember when I came to New York, my mom gave me a “tour”, and saw those beautiful towers I was ashamed to look up like a tourist, I was trying to pretend I’m real new Yorker lol, but it was imposible not to look up, freedom tower is beatiful and modern, but never gonna be so impressive like the World Trade Center
Charlie Ackerson
I loved the twins, and it feels empty without another. but I feel that once WTC 2 is complete and the construction is done I feel like it will be just as stunning
Robert Currie
As much as I love the new building, it is incomplete. As is the rest of the project. The “communications ring at the roof was supposed to enclosed. They, instead, left it incomplete. Also, another WTC building was supposed have a slanted top. The pointed lower end of the roof was supposed to aim directly at ground zero. It never happened.
santi
the building is really beautiful, and somehow, at least it seems to me, it is a kind of tribute to the missing towers, because depending on how you look, it may seem like the towers in some way, and so new generations can get an idea of the effect that had those buildings so high in this same place, so I think the design is successful , and at the same time, innovative, because despite what happened, we must look forward, and although I also liked the twin towers, I think it is better to have built this building, and start a new chapter in the history of new york, architecturally speaking. Well, the environment of the building is magnificent, I think the area is one of the best in Manhattan.
insaneapples
I hope to visit NY soon and can’t wait to see 1WTC and the memorial.
Tarin B
Gorgeous they did a phenomenal job made me cry!!!!!!! I can’t wait to visit it someday God Bless America
Mad Dog Charm
Strictly talking about the buildings, the architect for the original towers hated the idea of all glass for several good reasons. In my view, it looks nice, not ugly, but it doesn’t look “New York” the way the old buildings did. They were clean but gritty, gothic but timelessly modern. They said something when looking at them that this building just doesn’t. Besides that, this building doesn’t really seem to match the surrounding architecture as well.
Worthy Cap
God bless the United States of America! I’m from Guatemala I worked in NY for 5 years those where the best days of my life American people are the best very kind and generous. USA is no doubt the best country in the world
David
So where is the Western hemisphere? 😂 Amazing building! Looks awesome
Lavender
Honestly the old ones were just two rectangles but they were iconic. But if they could build a 2nd one of this,I’d be satisfied.
Benjamin Wallace
Omg I just realized my dad works for WSP I asked him He apparently helped design the heating ventilation air conditioning system He’s been with WSP since 2001
Matt Groters
Authors and builders, you did well. You did well. It’s beautiful, a statement of freedom and resilience that can scarcely be matched. I’ve been to the top, and heard the story of it’s birth. It’s an achievement for the ages and a gift to the future of New York and the USA.
Michael Vukovic
WTC 1 looks pretty amazing, especially with the memorial right below. Probably couldn’t be better. … but the design I seen for WTC 2, after they changed it, was a joke I thought. The design they had the first time for WTC 2 was way better.
Edward McLaughlin
I was just looking forward to my first visit to NY when this whole lockdown set about us. Who knows when or if I’ll make it now; but if I do, the first thing I will do is go to see this wonderful building. Truly beautiful.
Andrew /\ H-TOWN
Love the building just wish they went with a twin tower design and built two side by side
YNS
Beautiful building,
Maria Hadjidemetriou
incredible video and story. Thank you all for giving us greatness.
sonnyblack0870
It’s a beautiful building, I think they did a good job, my only issue with it is that antenna posing as a spire…
Legacy Jeet Kune Do
In order to be triumphant, they needed to build two replacement towers that were kitty corner from the previous ones and taller.
J— B—
I went and saw this tower 4 years ago. But it was so unreal to be there.. standing there.. knowing what happened in that exact location on 9/11/01. Chills beyond believe.
Mutated__Donkey
WTC 1 makes me proud to be a tourist in my home city
DC9848
I) Same height for top floor as the previous towers II) The bottom part resemblance to the old towers Didn’t notice these two homages to the old towers before this video.
M. Iqbal Syaputra
But the twin is always in my heart:(
kfashion
It looks like two buildings morphed into one. It looks like one starting at the bottom but then the other one is morphed at the top. Hard to explain but that’s cool. Nothing will obviously never meet up to the twins but it’s still beautiful.
SD SoCal
It’s is beautiful building indeed, but I will always prefer it’s parents, as they were so iconic.
Patali
There is such an extreme level of symbolism in every aspect of both the Twins and becoming this One trade center, it is ridiculous. People just do not understand. I guess they cannot.
RedWolf777SG
That new single tower looks rather lonely without a twin.
jarednil69
It’s a shame this video didn’t show more or the buildings interior.
Alexander Hamilton
i just hope that wtc 2 will be a twin. please make the right choice. we want two towers again, even if they aren’t exactly the same.
Gregory Drakes
I’m glad they decided to rebuild the World Trade Centre. Even though it’s much different from what was there before (which is usually the case when structures are rebuilt), it still looks great!
Stop Domestic Abuse
They make it sound so wonderful smh I’ll never go there! RIP to all Sept 11, 2001
Sylver Fox
It is amazing how they built the Freedom Tower to mimic both the north tower of the World Trade Center and the Washington monument.
Pavel Yurkevich
Thank you for everything!
MANUMAN ERIC
I ascended the tower, it’s monumental and yes, my jaw dropped, a Phoenix.
Salomon Villafuerte Aguilera
Awww 🥰 proud to live in the USA 🇺🇸
-KIMG-
the building is incredible, especially in person. But it doesn’t seem right.
Tom Sid
I remember driving to the jersey shore and stopped at a rest stop for food and I saw the construction of the trade center from accross the river. It was 2/3rds done
sarahott
This video told me nothing about how the tower was “engineered”.
allen p.
I think they nailed it. Good job NY.
Samantha merkulov
The twin towers will always remain the original icons you can never replace them and it would not be smart to build them again
who else likes memes
It looks beautiful, but the twin towers are also very beautiful, and iconic. Even though I was born after 9/11, I still have an opinion that the twin towers should have been rebuilt. But not in the same place of course, because the footprints are to honour the victims of that day. They could have rebuilt them, but right next to the memorial.
Leppalimes
Make the actual tallest building in the western hemisphere it would be impressive. Anyone can throw a giant spire on top and call it a day, hell multiple buildings in New York are taller.
Dorian McKoy
It would be cool if they made a twin but the first one is struggling to fill up so I don’t see a reason why we need one
The Sexy Skywalker
I wish they rebuilt an updated Twin Towers. maybe like this one but two of them. It feels incomplete as one also One WTC is not as beautiful as the original 🙁
SuperCannonier
You can’t call it an icon until it becomes one. It first has to deserve the status of an icon like the old towers did.
Tyler Vossler
God bless America 🇺🇸❤️
Christine Daae
Every time I see The Freedom Tower, I can’t help but to get a lump in my throat. It’s symbolic of what was once there, what is there now, and The Freedom Tower is a pillar of strength! It really is! God Bless New York City! And God Bless America!
Jennifer Anderson
Nothing beats the original 😭😭
Maverick 64
It is an amazing structure, for many reasons. No, it’s not like the originals, but then again it shouldn’t be.
Andrew🦈🏀
My favorite building💙🤤
Bruce Macmillan
As skyscrapers go, I think this is an improvement over what was there before. But… I don’t particularly like modern architecture and tall buildings, so my appreciation of this new tower is limited.
vsboy 25
It’s a beautiful building
Blank
Glad to have been part of this project.
xxnycstruballaxx
Screw this building I want the old ones back
Paul Mader
It does look awesome but there should be two
Jamie Windridge
One day I hope to visit from England, come pay respects, in memory of the British people who died that day. The relationship between America 🇺🇸 and England 🇬🇧 will remain strong. May God continue to comfort the families affected and first responders who helped that day. America we love you, prayers from me in England 🇬🇧. God bless America and England. 🙏🙏
Liam MacDonald
8:06 “This giant tallest tower in the western hemisphere.” CN Tower: Am I a joke to you?
Isaac Howard
Wish we had something like this in London
Glen Mccarthy
Looks like something you see springing up on the Dubai skyline, plus the industrial looking eyesore of a communications tower should have been shrouded in architectural cladding.
World Clasher
Why not build two it would be better and bring back the feel of the old twins
ygg drasil
No open air deck. That was what made the old twin towers amazing – a huge square open air platform over half a kilometre up in the air.
corhydron111
I would love this building if it weren’t for that giant-ass antenna on the roof. It’s so huge it ruins the proportions of the volume.
Miguel Rivera
It’s a beautiful site. Especially watching it from an airplane window from above. . It’s breath taking
Roger Trefren
It’s an 8 side mosk on most of it’s floor’s.
Esmeralda Hernandez
Idc about you boring people but I actually find this building so Beautiful because of how Clean & Crisp it is anddd that Detail of the pinched edges is sheeesh 🤩
David Butler
I always said, “built the buildings one story taller, 111 stories”, I Love the Freedom Tower but the fact of having 2 111 Story Buildings…. GOD Bless the UNITED STATES 🙏
Davmus1
The shock that an hour after the first building was hit there were no jets in the air and the Pentagon got hit….why wasn’t the capital protected?
arcanine 917
love the architectural beauty of wtc1. but instead of making it 1776 feet representing the year of our independence, they should have made it 2001 feet to represent the year that 9/11 took place as a form of remembrance. they also should have built two of them
MY MUSIC IS KINDA TRASH
Twins were such a unique idea. Will be forever missed
Bruno Rafael
One WTC is amazing, imagine a twin freedom towers instead of that glass box ugly thing (wtc 2)…
AO Bane
To me it looks more like a Chicago landscape. I rarely look at it from my rooftop. It gives me no particular feeling. It’s just there.
Stephen W
If they didn’t put an air defense system on top of that tower, they failed miserably.
agnel dmello
I am gonna visit this one day😍😍
JORDAN
The twins were so much more beautiful
chunnjos
They should have built a twin.
Michael Piccirillo
After seeing what happened to the twin towers how could. Anyone be in that building & feel safe? I see a plane off in the distant I’m heading for the stairs downward.
Victa Beer
I’m still creeped out about the whole thing . Nice recovery NYC . Cheers
Nacho Croes
Absulutie beautiful building God bless New York and united state of america 🇺🇸 .
Gregory Dahl
The fallout makes good cement ?
Emilio Rebenga
Beautiful, beautiful tower, but we could’ve also built another identical one right next to it.
Sloop John B
I love how huge the originals looked, their width paired with the height made them so intimidating. The new tower is beautiful as well, but it doesn’t have that same empowering feeling to it imo.
Aneudi Diaz
With all that money invested in the reconstruction of the One World Trade Center, they missed this one flaw of the building, which only happens during very cold winter days. Ice builds up on top floors of the facade, when it thaws, it shoots down at the angles to pedestrians below. When it gets bad, they yellow tape the area off, so no pedestrians are hit with fallen ice.
lauirr
r.i.p. wtc, amazing tribute 1wtc
William Campenni
Beautiful building but it just doesn’t feel right
juan carlos martin
For me the NYC skyline is meant to have his Twins on it for always. Not that less memorable and les beauty Single tower.
Stewie Wonder
I loved Twin Towers, but I also fell in love with One WTC. Gives me chills anytime I visit the area.
CARLITOSHYPER
Man it still looks like something there is missing just build a twin
Ta Ta
Went to New York and seen this building with my own eyes and tbh it didn’t look really tall at all…maybe because of the angles and stuff and there’s other tall building surrounding it.
Sherlock Ohms
I didn’t understand the bit where they said “we listened to the public”
Barb Wire
Better without asbestos which the towers had and added sprinklers which the towers DID NOT have. It is built next to the originals, not on the same site.
wtficantgetausername
That is elegant design, no doubt
Fired Up Pranks
All these comments complaining about the freedom tower need to be thankful that it’s something instead of nothing. One arm is better than no arm. One leg is better than no leg. I love the freedom tower and I’m very thankful that they built something.
Sara Salem
Hope it’s asbestos-free this time!
Ahmad X
It’s a nice building
Dev Chauhan
many tall and megatall skyscrapers have been built but nothing’s more inspiring than this!!
D
Kinda wished they built a second one 🙂
Roman Tamarin
Beautiful building, but why are the windows different shades?
The Brash Piglet
In my opinion they should’ve built the “Twin Towers II” plan, which if you dont know was a plan that involved rebuilding a stronger and slightly taller version of the 1&2 WTCs…
JLaviation
Why does nobody care about this building. It’s so beautiful and tall
AJ Green
Should’ve made this the tallest building in the world and really made a point!
I ll
if they rebuilt the original twins, imagine the reactions if the terrorists managed to pull off another one and it played out the same. This time alot of people would throw mean looks at the architects as well. They couldn’t risk that, so they built this concrete bunker.
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I wish they just made the same thing it used to be
samuel bakker
It looks much smaller and less impressive than the original… 🙁
Conner Filla
This building is a perfect example of how simple architecture can still look so beautiful, and not like the designers procrastinated until the last second so they whip out something bland. The new World Trade Center, especially the OWTC, is a beautiful, shining icon of America’s resilience. I love how they came up with a design that is dominating, yet still humble. Definitely on my bucket list to visit one day.
Pete RK Brooks
It’d help heal the wound by building two of them just to say we’re back and better. I feel seeing one is a reminder of 9/11.
Dj Konfidon
Blood money! These contractors benefited a lot from the demise of the previous blogs. I wonder who their friends are in government🤔
K S
As an engineer, I appreciate the work that went into this. Willis Tower in Chicago is taller. This just has an extra spire or antenna on top and doesn’t count since it is not habited.
evil elf
in my humble opinion,i would say overall they got this building right,having just one is a statement,and reminder,if they built 2 then it would be like trying to erase the memory of that dreadful day.i have visited the memorial,and was taken back by how quiet and almost serene the atmosphere was,i’ll never forget the day,i can only imagine the horrors that unfolded in the u.s.and the struggle to rebuild.r.i.p.
David Smith
It amazes me how someone like Bush could come up with a plan to create destruction on his own soil as an excuse to take out a foreigner so giving them rights to enter foreign countries to gain what?NOTHING.Call me a truther or whatever,but it doesn’t bring back the souls that were sacrificed in doing so.
MofongoGringo
I was there that day and it was the worst day of my life seeing that borrow and the worst day in every New Yorkers life. God bless the brave first responders who lost their lives saving others and God bless everyone who lost their life that day and may their families and friends find peace. #NeverForget
John Morrison
should have rebuilt it the way it was. except put in a concrete core and stairways on the corners of the building too too avoid dead ends
Nicky h225
It’s a good looking building
Asiphyn
Just because its not a twin tower doesnt mean its not beautiful, look at it. Its facking gorgeous
KOLLUSION Transistor Funk - Topic
These architects don’t half talk some kak… Experiencial? Anyway, whatever it is, just don’t light any little fires nearby, as it will probably pop into dust.
JBCOM
It would be pity to see it being demolished again
GravityPlays
I think they should have rebuilt the wtc instead of replace it imo. it’s a nice building but, it’s just not the same. I really like the simple one shape look of the original twin towers. They’re simple yet so beautiful! even if they just rebuilt one of the original towers as freedom tower, it would still be amazing. too bad we can’t have them back.
Lord Humongus
It will be much safer if Lucky Larry Silverstein doesn’t “pull it”.
rocodroco
If the developers really paid attention to the public, to New Yorkers when designing this whole project, they would know that everyone hates the new design of 2 WTC, really, no one likes it. So they should either stick to the first and original one, or come up with something better, something less boxy.
Farhan Swaggy
New york. The city synonyms with skyscrapers, the city that never sleeps. Btw who grew up in queens
WebDev
I like the looks of this new building but I still wish they had just rebuilt the twin towers again.
Coding Vio
Man, let’s just hope that incident doesnt happen again
Krma
Tall, strong and humble… The face of America!
Beepepeoel
THERE should be no dislikes
MineBuild77
I love this building! but the top of the building AKA the spire is really ugly looking. I think they could of done a lot better in that regard.
audrave
I’m glad they didn’t build on the foot prints of the twins. I see it as a graveyard for all the people whose bodies could not be found due being vaporized by the heat and fire. For them, that is their final resting place even though their bodies don’t exist.
David Jolliffe
During the Months leading up to 9/11, there were many vacant floors undergoing “renovations”. The elevators were also going through upgrades which took months to complete, and allowed hundreds of tradesmen, laden with tonnes of parts and equipment, free access into both buildings and in particular, the elevator shafts which provided access to every column. The weekend before 9/11 there was no operational security in the building for the best part of 2 days. This information is not a conspiracy theory, it is easily verified by the Port Authority service records. There was more than enough time & opportunity to completely wire both buildings for a controlled explosion. Wake up America, your Governments have a history of doing this. Use some of your intelligence to seek the truth yourself. May all the victims of 9/11 RIP.
Dfk429S9fo3
If you want to building a building, Unions shouldn’t have any impact on how it’s built. Here’s the plans. You either want to build it or we’ll find someone else…
Willie Muniz
2/27/90 which ever CIA personnel was there between one of them I was arrested in the bldg.
Its_me_Toni
Just make sure its by 512×512.
SmoothCriminal
I saw One Trade Center with my own eyes and as a building is impressive but I still belive they should of build back the twin towers.
Jermaine Grant
The freedom tower looks good. The first towers looked good, but they were not strong enough, plus we’re in the modern day age now, where things and time has changed, and not in the 60s anymore. Let’s move forward America with it.
David Cross
Great design… Thank you.
Emir Latinović
This is good. They painted this building so that it reflects the sky (being more invisible from the sky) and is in less visible place so that the terrorists can’t find it so easy. It is 1,776 feet tall which matches the ‘year of US Independence’. C’mon, be grateful.
ravenstar100
Wasn’t it a bit gross to build a new tower on top of where so many died and were never found? wouldn’t there bodies be part of the foundations? I thought a giant memorial garden like a second central park would have been more respectful to the fallen.
Bill Lana
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thatdamntime
they should have built the same that came down, defiance should have been the word imo
Ashley Sawyer
It looks great, but they could have made all the windows look the same shade of color.
Stratocaster 13
Beautiful. I’ll be in NYC this coming August and can’t wait to see this. But aren’t there other building in the design???
Da Matser
Someone online pointed out the patchy glass, like it was sourced from different suppliers. There are weird irregular patterns and now every time I look at it I can’t see past that. Hope I’ve not ruined it for you! :/
Wicked Crypto
Its a beautiful building but you can’t replace the Twin Towers. As a child my dad took me several times to the World Trade Center and the most icon scene that I can remember was when looking back at the Twin Towers when the sun set down across the Hudson river. I remember taking the ferry back home and nothing can replace that scenery from across the river whether you were standing on Hoboken, Liberty state park or Boulevard East the Twin Towers were irreplaceable.
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Chacha super felicitation une mamie
Frederic Malone
Easy insurance money with losing the first batch😉 Judges gotta get paid too
Im A Fanboy
Should of made it taller, not by cheating and adding a 400 ft spire to the building
trevor Berger
The towers were demolished and had many vacancies prior to 9/11. There was not a need to build a second one again, there never will be. There’s no space for a second one regardless.
Erik Tomas
Well, i see some folks don’t appreciate the appearance of this one. Would you prefer another pair of quarter mile high tombstones?
David 1
We should have constructed two of them. THAT would have been savage. Is it me or is the clip trying too hard to win us over??
Antonio Atreides
I think they should have tired to make it the tallest building in the world!
Sveta
world trade 2 should be a twin
Mansoor Taj
Interested in pursuing career at WSP
Javier Orama
The original towers were built to withstand multiple strikes by 747 explain to me how it fell at free fall rate in less than 20 minutes
byron Rideaux
Some people actually don’t even know this tower exists
SurviventheOnslaught
should have rebuilt the same two in style but stronger
Louis Hibbs
best to begin building a sea wall around manhattan..
DJ Oldsoulkid
So happy 2 WTC is back to it’s original design
Chief Tenphatts
Berlin was rebuilt , an entire City. In fact the Germans rebuilt their entire Nation. What’s this story about??
Jinaria
I really hate that you can’t go on top of the building like the old ones
Robert Draxel
It brings back a building, but it cant bring back the atmosphere of 70s, 80s America…
liarfire101
Someone said it looks like a raised globalists arm flipping off everything West.
aidan zima
They need to get the whole complex finished
JL TB
Is it demolition proof?
Danny Allen
Implode that eyesore make the twin towers site a memorial for those who died from a controlled demolition because of greed!
Gr8Success
this new tower is meh….. it would have been amazing if they would have rebuilt the towers exactly as they where
ARTOFPATIENCE
This makes me think of how japan reconstructed after that bomb…. you would think nothing never happened if it wasn’t for history.
juan ortiz
The original wtc 2 tower completed the site. The step tower is not the wayto go.
PRASAD KORANNE
The stress behind the two towers reduced to one.Simple.
timmy thomas
The new one world trade center is a beautiful piece of architecture and hope and pride and strength of America 🇺🇸 🇺🇲❤❤ God bless America 🇺🇸 🙏
MartenFerret
One is the loneliest number.
Jan-Tore Bakås Aakre
I wonder if the government will bring this down to?
Brandon
Looks really good on the outside but those open floor plans office spaces are dreadful in practice
Ivy Bizzell
One world trade centre: Mum, dad, I hope you are proud of me…
Pedro Cardoso Pingarilho
Tah na cara que foi esses porras tmb que contribuiu pra derrubar as antigas torres e matar tantas vítimas como um Mega Sacrifício ccrtz
OddBALL
The Twin Towers Were The True Icons. The New Tower Just Looks Like Another Building.
3800 Turbo Track Days.
Rebuilding the twins exactly as they were would have been a bigger fuc# Yo* to the people that took it down.
Yinyin
Oh my god is that Last Leaf Falls playing in the background-
TheSnowFoxParty
My question is though with the new One World Trade Center (Freedom Tower) do people that work there get 9/11 off? Cause if I work on floor 88 I’m not coming to work that day 🤦🏾‍♀️ sorry had to ask
Xena Gomez
Tradegy to triumph, hell yea!!!!
Reece Burns
In case of a repeat not trying to be a comedian but they should put parachutes in the buildings
Not your business
Last week I walked out of the metro, and saw a cloud right in front of the skyscraper and almost had an hearth attack
Christian Sobczak
The thing is it ain’t an icon. Some people don’t even know what it’s called
AndyJamison
i want the old towers
JC1118
It’s very beautiful, but nothing can replace the original WTC.
Vidar Odinson
A big tower “inspires love” – come on now, thats going a bit too far don’t you think??.
ZipEmUp XU
We need the second WTC!
WebSoak
The Twin towers remind me of Dusty Depot
Cythist
Why do people dislike the building? They wanted and expected something built there, why have a late reaction?
Shake KR1
It’ll be attacked again; hope they installed parachutes
J O
WTC7 fell just like a demolition
Zahedi Hassan
New sibling of old twins comes to the world
ed lu
I find this new tower, looks a lot like other ones from around the world! I agree 100% the twin towers were the iconic ones! In my opinion as much as it would hurt and bad memories of what happened, it would have been better to build twin towers again, but looking completely different than the old ones, two of the same one built already, instead of 1 alone! This would be my opinion, based on the fact that there was 2 before. Only 1 for me does not do it at all, this is not iconic in any way!
J Stuart
yeah ok, but can you build WTC 2, it’s only been 18 YEARS
Squicx
I hate the other WTC that look like toys or furniture
brainey001
Visually, world trade 1 is not very impressive looking, ESPECIALLY next to that insanely crafted memorial and skeleton station. As far as sky scrapers in NYC go my favorite looking one was the Chrysler Building
Repvoid
Is it me or did YouTube scrub nearly all 9/11 conspiracy theory videos? Lol
REAL AMAZING WORLD
I like the old buildings better
Franz
I think the OWTC is very looks uninspired, rushed and generic. The Original were brutal looking initially, but complemented each other greatly, looked wonderful at night with the lights and the details on them were immense and stunning. They should have rebuilt them (almost exactly the same) but slightly bigger and much stronger!
Slyguy threeonetwonine
Looks weird only being “One”. NYC will never look the same without a twin. Seems like a literal half completed job.
Goktug Ozgil
it is funny to hear someone who says “as a newyorker” in my opinion they dont see themself as an American.
DIDCOTTWIST
Kicked the British in the teeth by designing the building with its rod on top to represent the independence from Britain 1776 when some British people died on 911 why not just build to 911 feet.
xyz
It’s beautiful but will definitely not become an icon.
TheOneMouse
Hold on, if the new tower (with the spire removed) is the exact same height as the old towers (with the spire removed) then why the heck did they “need to make the geometry and design work”? Clearly the older design worked and an overwhelming majority of New Yorkers wanted the old towers to be rebuilt and to just make them a little bit taller. I’m not completely upset with the single new tower, but they could’ve and should’ve listen to the people of New York and given them what they want and not made this into a modern art piece rather than a practical/functional memorial and business center
SKULLTHEWIZARD WOLF
Basically they needed to make a building that was impenetrable like the Titanic but better Titanic 2 of course this one won’t sink because its a building on land honestly I think the building should have turrets on it so then it could take out anything that goes near it then that’s a Fortress of Solitude
Amarjeet Kor
👉”my brother helpful to build this 👈. 🙏❤️👈 👉 I’m Ashu from Delhi India 🇮🇳❤️🙏 👉 How are you doing today, bro
wawa
Why They Are Not Rebuild The Twin Tower Again? And Build The Freedom Tower As a Building 8. I Think It’s Much More Beautiful.
ChinnyChan1995
I think you should build One Freedom Tower 2 like a twin tower such as World Trade Centre for a show Make America Great Again.
Patricio Argote
Adding a twin will just make people get flashbacks of what happened…. RIP to everyone who lost their life that day❤️
Ana Carolina Teixeira
i like the design, but i don’t like the reflection and glass exterior thing. i guess it would be perfect if the exterior was made by steel, like the old towers was…
Dan Rustle
they should have built two or at least re built the original ones higher
bubu mic
Let Tony Stark build his tower !
Farhan Swaggy
9/11 left us a whole in our hearts not only in the USA but also the whole world. R. I. P. The fallen towers
Michael White
Naming this building the “Freedom Tower” is an Orwellian mockery of the American people.
Ate2Keyboardzwarriorz4Breakfast
🤣😂absolutely not !!They destroyed the Icons !! This a very poor replacement 🤦🏼‍♂️
whirlwindjourney
That stair step building looks like crap! I sure hope that’s not the design they end up going with.
Cristian Ojeda
After the united states got attacked on 911, the USA will never build in building taller than 1776, which is the height of the freedom tower.
Ryan R.
They should of just rebuilt the last one but better bigger and FOUR !
שמע ישראל ה' אלוקינו ה' אחד!
New york city without the twin towers is not the same. As many people describe today’s new york [ actually, the new york since 2002 – today] as UNKNOWN PLACE.
Ferrallezz
Yeah I’m not going in that building for obvious reasons.
oldstyle analog
Its a nice tower.but the twins were much prettier.I wish the port authority or whoever was involved should have built the towers the same but taller
Isaiah Hall
TWIN TOWERS IS BETTER AND MORE BEAUTIFUL I JUST WISH THEY BUILD THEM STRONGER BETTER BACK THEN MAYBE STILL BE THERE RIGHT NOW
mchllngld
What did they do with the mall in the bottom of the towers?
MrGriff305
Two world trade center is the main companion, but they haven’t built it yet. This project is still not complete. They built 1, 3, & 4, but skipped 2. They should’ve built 1 & 2 first. One WTC looks about 1/3 as massive on the skline as the original twins. Kind of sad.
Dan-of-NJ
Building should have been 2001 feet, without that stupid tower on top of it. They blew it.
RosyOutlook2
Took down the duality for singularity. Ingore the fact the skies are never deep blue people, yes of course the skies are suppose to be full of chemtrailed clouds. Will they be taking this down in the same time span they gave the twins.
Zahedi Hassan
NY looks like a city somewhere in Dubai or China
Martin West
Should build the towers again, exactly the same but much stronger.
B NY
its another glass box that’s boring to me … every single building in every other city in the world looks like this!
Rufus Greenleaf
I find it heart warming that they respectfully didn’t build the new building over the area of the two originals. Exact dimensions and places of the originals were turned into a memorial areas so people could see and even touch where the original North and South tower were and feel like somehow they were still there.
904hero
Anyone else watching this for a management class?
BigBob
People are saying the the new one is bad but I think it kinds looks cool. I do miss the old ones though
Eduardo Findlay
Think about how much more money comes into the city with everything building around it, oculus, memorial museum etc, is 9/11 never happened would it be the same?
The Only True Orange
original steel buildings get hit by planes which leads them to collapse, makes next one out of glass 10/10 (Edit: This is a joke, I know the actual building is made out of steel and concrete and is perfectly safe, however, the building looks as if it’s made out of glass)
Marlyn Ray
TALL buildings like these or even smaller buildings than the Towers Should never be allowed to be built Anywhere on earth. They are hideous looking and death traps.
Baderinwa Fola
Where is the need to build structures so high that people cannot be rescued during an emergency. It is nothing more than ego.
Pear
Wtc now stands as one
Dan Seabreeze
Meh! Not at all as unique and elegant as the twin towers.
Rick Feng
Two WTC should look exactly the same minues the antenna.
TeamDeer
One world trade center is a good looking build; but I don’t think I would ever want to work there or visit that place.
Sultan Of Ribs
Codes matching ‘Commercial’ Ideas? lol that makes sense. So what changed? They still used steel and concrete , products that have already failed – 3 times!! I believe Saudi passports are flame proof?
Daniel van der Merwe
So let me get this straight… instead of 2 building we get 1… and the new building is not higher than the last and also it’s cut down to make it smaller… ok then.
TIME2GO
almost 2020 and 85% of the people on long island think it was an inside job. wake up people.
TornadoChaser72
A building should’ve been constructed to show as much hubris as possible! America should assert itself as the worlds most powerful nation by rebuilding the twin towers, but bigger and stronger than last time.
CayRaeLey
(Trigger alert for PTSD – details of 9/11) If you were there that fateful day, having this building receive a twin could bring up some terrible memories for those who suffered that trauma. Having people just say ‘twin towers’ again could cause HUGE emotional triggers in people who lost their loved ones in the originals, or even people who were IN the towers and escaped before they fell. You cant make an exact copy of someones horrific experience. You guys may like and miss the iconic image of two towers, BUT for those who WERE in or near the building, who ran through the streets and were engulfed in ash and dust, who watch their first responders, firefighters, EMT’s, police, medics and heroes get crushed on their way up the towers when they fell, who heard the ear splitting impact of the glass covered areas by those who chose to jump instead of being burned alive, who ran in the streets avoiding literal bits and parts of their coworkers, hearing the screams of innocent workers as they ran from the building covered in flames, of those who were the first responders who had to see the worst and most gory aspects of what had just happened and yet still save lives and yet keep their sanity to push ahead and later spend months doing recovery instead of saving lives, those firefighters spending sleepless days and nights trying in vain to find the locations of their fellow brothers PASS system alarms that screeched into the eerie silence of it all for days until the batteries just ran out, of those who spent MONTHS waiting to hear that their loved ones had been found in the wreckage, who looked on at the twisted pieces of iron and papers strewn about and felt their hearts die inside that anything like that could ever have happened, THOSE people would most likely not appreciate everyone demanding an exact copy of their past brought back up and permanently placed in their home city. THAT shit doesn’t leave you. I almost killed myself in a car rollover going 60mph when I was 18, came out unscathed but was 10ft from a pole and 15ft from a ravine. I should have died that day in pieces in a tree, or caught in a live wire. Just going off the side of the road or suddenly hitting gravel with the tires STILL hits back me into that day and gets my mind on high alert, even 7 years later. Shit like that doesn’t leave you. think about what they went through before you demand a remake. Some of us weren’t even old enough to remember the incident (I was five at the time in Colorado and still remember it on TV) and yet want to have an opinion about it.
Wizzle
Be an interesting video without all the damn drama.
rich podlaski
so was the last one until a plane hit it
Don Nestor
that lady does not care what happened, believes that this can close the wound open 9/11, is a hypocrite and only does it for money
DJ Salad
Watched the video of the building collapsing and tell me it doesn’t look like control demolition? Jet fuel metling steel beam my ass
Mad Max
Steel doesn’t burn
Michael Rapson
Built hastily over the human remains from 9/11, some of which were used to fill pot holes in New York streets.
HeroisDoMar
But why only build one??? They should have made 2
UnShapingTheEarth
Hope the government doesnt blow this one up too
WaffleStomp
imagine if they made it twice the height of the world trade centers
ian pocketboo
its all about the cost,if the USA could have funded it there would be freedom towers 1 and 2
RoOtS McDuCk
they shouldn’t have flown planes into them just coz it was cheaper than deconstruction
michael carter
I hate how they describe it as humble. The twin towers were a show of might and American pride. Their replacement should have been the same thing. Not a humble replacement, but a giant middle finger to those that brought down the original buildings.
Stephen Devore
Concrete at 14000PSI Stonger than rock🤔🙂😎Code To FUTURE Proofed the building ♥
Umb O
The idea that spending money and re-building something on that site could ever take away from the emptiness left by their absence is a reflection of modern thinking’s fundamental flaw. That money and wealth really symbolize anything or that you can re-write history instead of creating something entirely new in itself. To me, the spot looks just as empty as before, if not emptier, because nothing could have ever gone in that spot that would symbolize anything but repeating an error in American thought. It shows we learned nothing from that day.
TimA
Obviously nothing could replace the twin towers, but maybe they shouldn’t be. They should remain as those distinctive figures in history. This new building is beautiful and was an amazing achievement by everyone involved. Long live NYC ❤️
Mpume Sibiya
The question is will this building survive the bombing? History shall repeat itself. We are living in end times.
MrGriff305
It’s not rebuilt yet. 2 WTC is a major part that’s missing.
Smoosty
the original will always be better… I miss the original WTC so much..
pho3nixinflight
I honestly don’t like the design. I know the twin towers were simple and some considered them “boring”, but they really were iconic. Maybe that nostalgia talking but I can’t help it. I would have rebuilt them exactly as they were as a big fuck you too those that wanted them gone. Plus the name freedom tower seems like a sad joke.
gary p
Should of put that money into a peruper investigation.
SvM EvilStoner
I wouldnt want to ever be in that building, especially when America didnt learn its lesson and continues mass murdering islamic children. Only a matter of time until it happens again.
Lemonade
Something about it just lacks conviction. To me it represents confusion about what to do post 9/11. Its ambiguous shape and window-less concrete base abruptly changing to glass. It’s a great feat like all super tall skyscrapers, but something is off.
Corbin Vickers
The freedom tower has a beautiful design, but it looks a bit too glass, there should have been a twin, and it should have had 111 stories
R R
“Geometry” yeah ok! You mean Masonic triangles! You should have designed an eye 👁 on each side of the building like you have mosaics in the subway right near the ground zero
Private Private
As a native New Yorker, I feel it’s a wonderful story of resilience. However, I will not likely ever visit the Freedom Tower. For some, it takes a generation to forget and/or feel any amount of comfort with even our ability to recover. When I hear speak of how strong the Freedom Tower is, I just can’t get to a level of comfort. I’m not saying it isn’t strong. But, I feel that cost and the limits of physics and architecture just aren’t going to make a passenger plane bounce off of it, regardless. I almost worked within sight of the Freedom Tower and I almost worked at Hudson Yards. I’m grateful that neither worked out. Sorry.
Phillip [Last Name Redacted]
Ok Ok. The big question here is. If someone slames a plane into it? Is it going to come down? Thats the only question on my mind because sometime in the future someone may get the idea of crashing a plane into it. And i for one dont want to see it fall like the towers did!
J. A. Brito Jr.
Why didn’t they build two new towers exactly like they used to be? Those twin towers were so beautiful and rebuilding them exactly the same would have been the best thing to do to honor the dead in 9-11-2001.
Desire Fahad
Wtc 2 design should be change..
Angie Rae76
The only way to rebuild better is by making sure no more evil exists on this planet or there will just be the risk of the same type of thing happening again.
Ryan Goodridge
America came back with a 1776 ft tall middle finger of freedom !
JeepGuy 9519
So do you guys think will ever see another 9/11 someday because I feel like we will at some point again but with this One World Trade Center 😢
gavin martin
I can see it from Union beach nj
PoafiBricks
They need another
Comotutapaisa
It’s not the same period .
 
Eardrum Assassin
Should be called new world order 1 . I seriously don’t know what any of these ppl were thinking 🤔. This building is not that nice looking . It completely ruins New York’s skyline . It looks completely out of place .
Tyrell
The finalized Two World Trade Center is honestly a mockery. The fact that it looks like a falling stack of boxes adds insult to injury. Maybe they’ll surprise us all and 2 WTC will be just like 1 WTC (“Freedom Tower”)..
American Dream
It’s more beautiful than Burj Khalifa. Because it’d our american baby ❤
Evander Holyfield
nice for Dubai nice for Berlin the building could be anywhere. But nothing can replace the twin towers for New York.
Yearning Nation
very creepy how fast they put up the building. plain looking but so were the towers.
Damien Stone
The illuminati building
James Wilkinson
Am I the only one that thinks this tower is better than the old ones? By almost every objective metric it’s better. Better materials, better design, safer, taller with the antenna, etc… I have the same nostalgia as everyone else, but I think that’s all it is… nostalgia.
JAG888
I hope the bush family was made to pay for new building as everyone knows bush did 9/11
Juan Luis
Yo pienso como otras personas.divieron Aser 2 torres gemelas.x q a la verdad q las 2 torres q estaban simbolizaban A New York.en el mundo entero.
 
A R
…so we ended up with only one tower that kinda looks bad cause it tapers as it nears the top. Makes it look like we tried to save money on those top floors. And place a Saudi headdress (agal) on top. God damn guys.
Shai G
Well they didn’t listen most people wanted twin buildings most New Yorkers hate the replacement building
Hate Libtards
This thing is an abomination! It’s wrong, N.Y. needs those twin towers back!
Dylan Jones
They didnt rebuild They replaced
TheSecretWindowSpot
I think the one world is a memorial to the victims that lost their lives. A building where you can see the reflection of the sky above, and where we feel more closer to the ones that lost their lives. I think it is so imortant for that area to be beautiful, not messy, peaceful looking, and where you can remember but also think about the future. When i went there in 2014, well i felt it needed a park beside the two memorials, in which the busy street wouldnt be seen, and you could sit down and breath. I hope that there is more greenery there one day. Flowers and such, and not just all balt.
Damian Peters
Not icon! Eye sore! And unfortunately we lost when they put that!
KENNEDY'S LIFE
Reasonable and address the issue
Floyd Pepper
Should’ve rebuilt them exactly as they were. This ones nice and all but doesn’t belong there. Looks like it would fit in better somewhere in Europe.
Marques Rui
Where’s the other tower?
HeroisDoMar
They bragging for 8 minutes about how people love it. Lol no! You should have rebuilt a pair of twins! That’s what everyone wanted !
DPL Productions
The World Trade Centre was breath-taking when seen as designed, absolute waterfront. These monuments should have been replaced as the monument to Sept 11, but higher with a concrete core. That is freedom. The foot-prints are there, put them back. The so called “Freedom Tower” should be called the “Defeated Tower”. Sydney would rebuild the Opera House. France would rebuild the Eiffel Tower. India would rebuild the Taj Mahal. England would rebuild Big Ben. Stare terrorists in the face. On September 11 we all saw their weapons of mass destruction, a box cutter. On September 12 they should have seen the west’s weapon of mass destruction. Just one. Sorry Tehran…. boom. The world would have applauded, and it would be now a truly peaceful place.
Chris Riley
a building of sin. Built on a pack of lies.
StereoMike06
It’s ugly for New York. Looks like something that belongs in London. While I wish the Twins were rebuilt. I understand that many people are weak and can’t face that past, but why not have gone way back to the golden age, and build another tower as magnificent as the Empire or Chrysler buildings….
Sandeep Gupta
They should have made an exact replica of the original twin towers, more stronger, more powerful, as a befitting reply to the terrorists..
 
Bigman
Can this withstand airlines hit,that’s the Question workers asking?
Richard Nunez
I hated One World after it was done, i wanted the old twin again but as time passed i realized had the twin returned i really would not feel good about it nor would i be able to accept it as old twin replacement. We needed something different standing there i just didn’t fully realise it till a couple years ago.
Ryan Reus
one world trade center for their one world government
 
Elinson Berroa
This idiots are praising themselves. Stay humble. The entire message is how impossible and difficult it was and how they accomplish this. Is a beautiful building. Nice building. Awesome. But I would’ve loved to see a twin tower instead of one big one. And I praise the lower workers. The construction worker. Truck driver. ❤
Go for Gold
I dont like the replacements, it looks like nothing
Gideok Gim
It’s a pyramid lol It’s 666’s house
Hair sniffing advisor to President Joe Biden
The building should’ve commemorated people who died at the site during 9/11 attacks… E.g. on every window panel they could’ve etched the name of a victim – I’m sure that building has 2000+ window panels.
ironmatic 1
Sad! The old buildings looked better!
Yamil Vera
Building 2 new design is still stupid af … why tf did it change from the original one
B NY
why couldnt they building it taller… its great that the built something as similar to the old WTC but they should have made it at least 110-118 floors…
David Szczepan
People who survived the horros of 9/ll dont want to be looking at the exact same thing they survived? Lets say you crash a plane would you be more wary of going on a plane?
Joseph Shannon
They built the freedom tower, they should have built another one liberty
Intelligent Design
Engineering an Icon: Step 1. Destroy the previous 3, the third one being building number 7 which to this day MANY Americans don’t even know collapsed that day, in a state sponsored false flag terror attack. Following which over a million humans perished across 2 invasions.
TYLER JUDAS
I went to NYC in 2017 a day after 9/11, Anyways on my 4th day in NYC i took a uber ride down to one world trade center i didn’t go inside too scared i stood outside across the street looking wayyyyy up i got dizzy and i had a moment where i wanted to fall & cry because i thought of 9/11 2001. I do plan on going back to NYC in 2020 i will make it my plan to visit one world trade center going inside.
J.E.A.D 2021
I’m Brazilian and I love the USA. I have a question. Why don’t makes the Twin Towers ?
 
Adler 92
6:10 indeed I’ve been seeing the star of David and Saudi Arabia all over it.
philzone
I personally wish we could have put the original buildings back just as they were to send a message that we are not afraid.
Dom Zanella
I bet everyone is scared thinking that it will happened again
Channey
Is it plane proof? Not kidding.
Liam Gallagher
Ugliest building known to man
Jose flores
I still wait for Justice, in a building of 40,000 then less than 4,000 died ??????
Chantal Padora
Of what? ?? An Icon? No Not even close. ONLY the Twin Towers were allowed to wear THAT status.
Joshua Logan
I find it funny how everyone were saying before 9/11 that Twin Towers are ugly and now after 9/11 they are almost not making songs about them.
Dick Trickle
Could be wrong, but wasnt the reason most people couldnt get out in the first place was because all the stairs and elevators were located in the cores of the two towers? And the planes both hit and damaged the cores. How is this design any different?
Phillip Mulligan
The grid iron corruption, politics, delays and cost over runs were just absurd. They could have replaced the WTC in less than 5 years but it dragged on nearly twice as long and the cost overruns were massive. Now that a lot of business and people are choosing to live in lower Manhattan makes up for all the cost over runs and politics. It’s a place of healing and rejuvenation for a lot of people now.
Alden
1:40 I thought the CN tower is taller?
Penske Material
The real icons were destroyed in 2001. I like this building but it doesn’t even feel like it can represent NYC like the twin towers did or the Empire State Building.
SOLO ECLIPSE
What do they even do in there?
Amigps01
Wait so how does it change constantly? That wasn’t explained.
 
RebSike
the current WTC2 design needs to be replaced, it literally looks like it’s falling over. it’s not necessarily worse than any other glass curtain building, it’s just inappropriate for the site. the original “four diamonds” design was much more appropriate and fitting in relation to the Freedom Tower.
A.J. Gallegos
Hey does this building set fire to NYC? Seems like the light reflexion is not a good idea. making everything very hot.
solchrystal
I don’t agree with people who say there should be a Twin. The landscape of NY was forever changed on 9/11. To build a twin would feel like going back, when what should be done is moving forward. On the other hand, there’s lots of survivors still living in NY with sever PTSD. How do you think they would feel seeing twin towers again on the same site where they lost so much? It would probably cause them great anguish to see new twin towers. I think a new design is needed, not a copy of the old one.
Steve Lee
They failed in making any statement. I love the memorial aspects but don’t care at all for the new tower.
Phuong Weary
One for the world one site to Remember the people who Died
Chong Chapman
Yes. I have told them to have built few years back….
Alex
They should have rebuilt the original towers
johan sebastianbach
This building is gorgeous ,i liked the old ones but i like this better, the old twins were so unique in terms of the construction method and design (which ultimately led to the building’s demise) but there is so mush thought that went into this in terms of the design aestetic,the shape,the chamfers…wow ..yes its all glass facade but thats keeping in trend with modern office building.
CleanserOfNoobs
I like to think that the spire on top is Amarica’s middle finger to the cowards that caused 9/11.
Extreme Beast Reaction
Why didn’t they just make 2 new world trade centers
Northern Brother
Why didn’t they rebuild the original towers and restore the skyline??? What better eff you to the terrorists than to erase the damage they did. This new building is a monument to what they did, that’s why nobody loves it.
MR Alabdulaziz
A beautiful job more stronger than before bla bla, but where he’s brother something is missing Why the didn’t build twice of it whyyyyy???
Jacob Robert Buske
Been there. You did a great job. But there shouldn’t be gift shops everywhere. All those people died and you’re making money off of their sacrifices.
Sean Nagel
Keep your lies Building seven
tropicalpalmtree
It looks like shit, such a disappointing building
stanislavtihohod
But what if a plane crashes into this new WTC? Will it withstand the hit and the fire this time?
 
Omar the Atheist Aziz
For everyone saying “thar shud b 2” are just blindly diving into the fact that there was to buildings b4 & they want 2 buildings again..it’s a memorial..A Memorial U don’t visit 2 memorials to remember 2 buildings that are related & collapse in the same day
Young Welsh
You do realise the old towers were demolished?
TruthandjusticeXXL
What is inside One World Trade Center? Is there a list of companies?
Toyota guy 37
The twins should have been rebuilt in my opinion.
Hanna Stramavus
Such a wonderful building Looks much better then the original towers.The original buildings where weak and kinda ugly.The new Freedom Tower building Is extremely strong it can outstanding Tsunami earthquakes explosions and planes.Excellent masterpiece.
FRAN7
what a terrible tragedy, so many lives lost, and secondly, also such a piece of beautiful engineery that the twin towers were. i visually prefer the old towers, wish i could’ve visited them
Rique Thaprique
As above so below. Massive site of human sacrifice. 11…years. 2 become 1. Well, hello satanic alter.
Eugene Noble
It’s not about life it’s about building materials.
Derek Rehm
It’s not the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. The ugly fruit basket on top of it makes it the “tallest”. The thing is a giant turd compared to the twins.
SoI IIT JEE Physics & Maths
still twin tower or only one tower ??
Dan Ellis
I wish the twins woulda been rebuilt not only to show the world that America stands together , but to remind terrorists that were still here. To show that we’re not defeated and we won
Normal Everyday Regular Dude N.E.R.D.
There should be a parachute for every person in the building above 300ft.
mooudi 91
Heißt der eine Herr wirklich Gottesdiener? Wie geil
Leebrun
RIP the twin towers
John Karl
The Freedom Tower’s fine, but I want the original World Trade Center back, we all want the twins back. The twin towers which structural engineer Ken Gardner designed looks magnificent and phenomenon, if those twin towers were built, they will look much more beautiful and outstanding in person, and Lower Manhattan will get its skyline back, I’ll be able to visit there and enjoy the whole borough every moment of my life.
johncaiwa
IIIIIIIII get it. They are slanted so when the next plane hits, this time people can slide all the way down.
RKB 2021
Where’s my twin?
DomProof
My dad was one of the Forman at 3:36. Has a picture with only the first story built, super amazing picture to see now after it being built.
Joel Thomas
Did Osama Bin Laden organised the Attacks on the 9/11 ?
Gert Swanepoel
They disturb the scene should be left as it was now they hide what happend there a lot to account for in the end
KA01
Twin towers were so ugly that some bloke flew a plane through it .
Kin Durán
And architecture
Bharat Tupe
Nyc goverment built tollest building in the world in future
 
Bharat Tupe
Nyc goverment built tollest building in the world in future
LPAJ_2 /2
Personally, I think they should rebuild the twin towers. They say “There’s not enough room” UM, NEAR THAT STREET, NEXT TO THE NORTH TOWER, RIGHT IN THE SPOT NEXT TO WHERE THOSE SOLAR PANELS ARE. Plus, why waste space by making fountains with the foundation? They should build the twin towers, the same architecture, back on the foundation, and have the memorial IN THE LOBBY, or at least what they can do is have the names on the foundation, but where the water is, that’s where they build the tower. What I mean is build the buildings on the inner side of the walls of the foundation itself. But another idea is to have the names carved into the elevator doors, the walls, something. Otherwise, you are wasting space. They were originally planning to rebuild the twin towers, but they were like “Instead of building 2 gigantic buildings with a few low-rise buildings, let’s build a bunch of crummy 80-floor buildings! Come on, the architect of the twin towers didn’t die for this. The VERY LEAST they can do is build a second freedom tower. Where the foundation is for the other building (I think for the 2 world trade center) That is where you can build a second freedom tower. I saw some of the designs people were planning for it, and one of them looks like a bunch of cartoon boxes. I never got to see the twin towers in person. I REALLY wish I could. Seeing pictures just isn’t the same.
mR andross guy
I Liked the Idea of This , But Now I Feel THIS Is Disrespectful !? Too tell our Children that There was 2 Beautiful Identical Buildings , Admired for about 30 YEARS (Thought too Stand like 1000 yrs) And after Many Lives , too Just Have THIS ?!! Pretty fucked up ? But what THE HELL do I KNOW X (
ej_ soul_jah
After the 2 pillars destroyed..This looks like a modern pyramid to me..where is the 👁? Haha..i mean a CCTV on top😅
Randomshit101
American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 has joined the chat
PM N
I honestly don’t find it that attractive.
JJW48002
So much hate on this tower
KENNETH WILLIAMS
I do not like the design! Its great design and state of the art on side,but its dull and boring. The original “twin towers” are eternal and irreplaceable. The new buildings will never be as iconic and awe inspiring as the originals. Why is it that the terrorist repeatedly attempted to attack the towers? Its because their image against the skyline was so powerful and iconic. This new building is a poor replacement that inspires yawns not smiles.
Michael Lindsay
This one world trade center I hope is much stronger
Web
Please. fix. the. spire.
Hossam Mahdi
It’s the last 5 days of 2020 who’s watching now
John Smith
Baah. Nothing close to the majestic originals.
Gary Fitzsimmons
Just another thoroughly boring glass pile of which there are now thousands around the world. America used to set the architectural tone for the modern world. Now every city just wants to be “little Dubai.” What with the ghastly temple to American consumerism by famed Iberian con-man Santiago Calatrava, NYC is now home to the world’s greatest monument to 21st Century gilded age putresence.
AirDrip
Why didn’t they just rebuild the two towers
FastCarsNoRules220
Am I the only one who dislikes the looks of Two World Trade Center? Honestly they should just build another Freedom Tower and call it the Twin Towers 2. But other than that, I’d rather just have this one tower alone rather than have some weird stack of boxes next to this tower.
Michael Lindsay
These buildings like the twin tower and this one is not ment to withstand planes and fires
Alex Pletcher
Sickening propaganda nonsense
The Hammer
The sight of it will be ruined tho. They keep building ugly ass glass boxes around it. SMH
Neil Robinson
The old twin towers need rebuilding in the next 20 years or so.
Harvey PRINCE
I was discussed when the rebuild happened….it was not taller just ordinary….
SOUL STALGIA RECORDS
They make it sound as if Jet Fuel really collapsed the previous towers. GTFOH, we all know it was professionally imploded.
R
Hmmm.. maybe dont plant explosives on the beams and the tower might survive?? 🤔🤔🤔
Zhe Xuen Hor
Hey is no one going to chat about the 2 world trade center or the one looks like a stair case
Sempre Um Pouco De Tudo
One World Trade Center is beaultiful!
george jones
They shouldn’t have rebuilt. Who would want to go back into a building that had planes smashed into them? Not me! It also has a boring feel to it or something. Where is the twin?
alec vip
Why do people want 2? It would’ve raised taxes for everyone to pay so that they could build the second one.
bex
I think they should have turned the whole foundation into a park. Making a new building on top of it just doesn’t feel right.
Agent
I prefer if this will be triplets. Not a single tower, not even a twin. I want 3 of these!!!
Lou Rios
Icon…? It is boring, plain and ho-hum as it gets. “Icon” is such an overused word. In NY the Chrysler Building and the ESB are icons.
Rod Schermerhorn
Miss two of them but I’m happy.
sabresman31
They should have built 2 of those
Frank Granados
Where is WTC 5 and 6!!
Fist First
Salute to human willpower And Slap to terrorism and it’s sick praisers
Emmanuel Blanc Cabon
is there any summery? am tired of this listenning comprehension
Sternzy
Srry but the cn tower is taller so theirfore this building is not the tallest in the western hemisphere
Squicx
I wonder what it would look like with a twin
 
Visionist
Ugh, a marketing video. Piss off. No antenna cladding. No prismatic glass, no chamfered base, no restaurant. As for building three? No cross bracing, no spires. And no building two. This is your “pride”
Curly Broh
Who’s idea was it not to rebuild the twin towers as they were, yet safer and more sophisicated? That would have really restored the spirit of New York…SMH
Nermin Okanovic
Wasn’t that design ripped from a Korean student designing this in 1999 as a project?. Copyright? Patent violation? Even so, I don’t think it looks like a “New York thing”. But who am I to judge I guess.. Well great day everyone ✌️
Zahedi Hassan
Old twins were far better than this new one. Old twins were flat, smart and cool. This new wtc looks like buildings in Dubai
Zen Zen
It is more smaller than the twin towers
VaporChickenWave
such a beautiful tower paid with 3000 life’s people
James Ortmann
Yawn, the talking the music
D W
The towers insurance scam was bad enought. The unrealistic scenario our government wants to give us, unconditionally, is physically, and chemically impossible. Educated people cannot tolerate it.
Caden Grace
Everything about this building is off. It it not trend setting in any way, it has no grandeur, it shows nothing of why it was built. It is a complete miss.
The Weather Gods
Anyone who says that there needs to be a second tower is an idiot. This building was literally designed to be the embodiment of both towers.
Lotsielots
Why add that ridiculous spike to the top? It doesnt count to the height. It looks like they just gave up construction before the end, chopped off the top.
Brother's Epic Gameplay
This new One World Trade Center is literally like only 40 feet taller than the Willis Tower. I am mad. If they are making a skyscraper, to symbolize freedom, don’t make it 40 feet taller than a former Sears owned Skyscraper.
Michael Vukovic
Too bad Word Trade 2 design looks like shit, I’m sorry…and gonna make the skyline worse looking than it was for 50 years.
Steven Rohauer
They should.habe rebuilt the towers
D1aNdOnLyNiCkx3
They brag about the concrete floor and steel core ugh it was the same with the original ones you blew up
JOHN SMITH
Not rebuilding the originals only stronger and modern was thee dumbest and insensitive idea!!!
Bud Fuddlacker
Cool looking building, but those rings on the top are so freaking ugly
Zahedi Hassan
That’s exaggeration. Same design building we can see in South Korea and Israel. It’s already outdated crap. That’s nothing new. Old twins were full of uniqueness.
awyeaah17
One World Trade Center is a pretty building but nothing like the Twin Towers. There should be new, bigger and indestructible Twin Towers beside it. Then 1WTC could represent our recovery and freedom.
Sekamek
This one wtc is a real phony
john miller
waste of space,,,,, there where much better proposals the city has to stop other builders from going higher,,,
Bike Rider
The old ones were ugly basic commercial looking buildings. This one is better and geometrically designed to deflect aerial objects
Mikey Penski
SO it will take a few more planes next time ?
Jacob Simonsen
Looks like any other skyscraper with its blueish glass facade.. Nothing special..
SuperSix Delta
I’m glad they built it as fast as they did. It’s a source of inspiration and healing, but also defiance to the evil people that applauded the destruction of the twin towers. Say what you want about New York, but they won’t be beaten down.
UruKaDoo Edwards
Building Sucks!! The Twins were the Best! To bad we Blew them up!!
goldeneye 426399
The tower is beautiful, but where is the twin
kevinmsft
This building sucks. End of story. Patting ourselves at the back for such a sucky job done for such an important task… is simply delusional and disgusting. The 911 museum is wonderful though.
Yoshi92
did they again include a self-destruct-button? 🧐🆒
Cinnamon
Let’s hope ISIS won’t care about these.
Akihiko Hayashi
You know that 432 park avenue is taller if you don’t count the spire on the Freedom Tower. Nice. Billionaires over freedom.
Alexis Arianna
Am I the only one who doesn’t like the new trade center? I want the old ones back.
NY
I’m sorry but it doesn’t look very attractive
Abo Ali
They should have built the same two twin towers 🙁
Twanger
Please replace the original twin towers!
mark dunhill
The twin towers are far more impressive. The OWTC is less impressive, the design is less attractive compare to other supertalls around the world. They should incorporate some design fr d old twin tower, “american classic design” the antenna at top looks in appropriate it didnt incorporate to d design of d modern building… unlike for example the antena of empire state ang sears tower added more asthetic beauty to the buildings😁 for me its a lame design, if its not for its majestic height? It look so ordinary.. btw its just my opinion😁😁😁
Odysseus1776
101 people know that it was an inside job…
Neema Paxima
I never knew that they also make propaganda videos in the US.
Alan Roberts
I hate the new one. Just another horrid pointy glass thing. The old twins were one of my favourite buildings in the world. Even now I hate it when the towers appear on TV..
Fernando Solorio
How come they didn’t built two of them
 
MamaRussell ThePie
Should have re-built not replaced. Down voted
Jennyfur Steele
Wow, tough crowd! Everybody knows the twin towers are irreplaceable. Irreplaceable. Rebuilding them wasn’t/isn’t really an option if you consider the optics. They would carry too much pain now. Admit it. We would never see them the same way. I think rebuilding the twins would be insensitive and arrogant. Even more, it would be creepy to see those in the skyline again, considering all the pain and fear associated with them on that day. Besides, I think OWTC is a very beautiful middle finger for those responsible.
Scott Hilliard
They can blabber away all they want…. this building doesn’t come even come close!
Carlavision
I’ve read so many comments on Facebook that some New Yorkers wanted the twin towers built back where they once stood
Cain Smale
Why were the old buildings so vulnerable .. because America had a lot of enemies .. and nothing has changed .. it actually seems like they continue to become more unpopular as time passes
Jarred Still
I’m just here to say this isn’t that tallest building in the country.
Jeff
It’s like losing Megan Fox and replacing her with Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Alex Wilens
It’s not new yorks style, where is the neo ghotic?
adam hively
Careful Ben laden is still alive !
Mohamed Atta
We still have some planes and don’t try to make any stupid moves.
Denny Rice
This building just proves one thing….The terrorist won. The original towers should have been built back stronger and taller just like President DJT wanted to in 2005.
Mr. VALDIK
Печально… Сначала правительство уничтожило те две башни, а теперь с наигранной печалью на лице возводит мемориал в честь тех, кого само убило…
L Mills
6:09 what? Did she just SAY!
Josh Collens
World Trade memorial= well done World Trade 1= meh
Sagara Sousuke
Can this one survive demolition charges? This is wasted video, it doesn’t talk anything about the technology it has and how it was built.
Dum Dum
its just not the same.
Dewayne Jay
Should of built a twin guys to let them know we still stand strong
TheUtgardian Channel
people, there is no space to build another tower ffs lol
MAZ1
All an insurance fraud
Theseus
where is the other tower????
Niels
Did they put some Parachute in the building 😕 But I don’t know if people who jumped from the top can have the time to open a Parachute 🤔
Currency Podcast
Wtf should there be two? Let’s move on from the past folks
LUpilot2012
Using a spire to count towards the total height is such a cop out. Sears Tower in Chicago is still taller, check the roof line.
This Guy
Icon or not it’s ugly as!
TheAsian CRINGE
I know that it will most likely get hit by planes again. But they made some very good decisions. They thicken the concerts more than they had to. Props to all the people that helped and worked on the building. It just shows that when 9/11 happened, it did not make us weaker, it united us better than we ever imagined. RIP to all that died that day.
Jordan Harris
It’s a shame that our government had to take them down in the first place to start a war
GoodLifeMedicine
It is a monument to mass murder, a false flag operation perpetrated at the uppermost levels of the military industrial complex.
Tupac Shakur
They should build the twin towers Again and should be call the 3 World Trade Center
ship people
If they would look at these comments, they would see that we want our twins back, why would u choose this lame one wtc, GIVE US. OUR TWINS
salt
A new set of twins would be a slap on the face of “TERRORISM” and a motivation for New Yorkers.
Richard Eberhart
The Willis (Sears) tower in Chicago is much taller than this building but because of the 350 ft Antenna on world trade they say it’s bigger. What a joke.
peace love
No they shouldn’t have built …just burie what happened…should keep the memories for both building…
Phillip [Last Name Redacted]
Let me be blunt. Sorry if this hurts anyone’s feelings or brings bad bad memories. But I have to ask!… if someone decides to slam a plane say an Airbus 360 into this building is it going to stay up? Or are we going to see another monumental collapse on live tv?
Paul Briody
One just looks like less.
Umbrejolt
It is kind of ugly.
Legacy Jeet Kune Do
It took way too long and the top floors of the building a a sham. They should have some better.
Jim Smith
Sorry, it sucks.
PIECKERIST
It’ll be horrible if it get hits again
Dail Ray
They should have build two buildings not just one don’t like that
Billy Fulks
Building just one tower was idiotic. The world is still laughing at that blunder.
Dad of 2 Reviews For You
It’s ugly. Every time I see it is ugly
Gr8Success
the new wtc looks stupid. they should have rebuild the same twin towers back
Cruz
1WTC is a disgrace.
Michael Jordan
FAIL – the Freedom Tower looks like shit. This does not look like a building that belongs in NYC. It would be more at home in Singapore or South Korea.
Ashutosh Rana
its just covered in glass,could hve been done in 2 years. ugly
ian kendrick
They should have built a twin but higher saying that the new world trade looks awsome right next to the memorial pools as well as the museum fitting tribute to all the people lost on that terrible day
Ryan Yeager
I think they should rebuild the World Trade Center the Twin Towers exactly the way they were before 9/11 I think that would have stood the test of time. At the buildings that the terrorists tried to destroy return to this earth tall and looked mightier than ever
PoxyBear
Sorry but this isn’t an icon.
Muscle Maniac
they shouldve just rebuild them, just to let the terrorists know that they cant change America. America keeps coming back.
Dodd Frank
This building is leagues better than the old World Trade Center