Designed by Norman Foster of Foster + Partners and developed by Silverstein Properties, Two World Trade Center is the final component of the 16-acre World Trade Center complex at 200 Greenwich Street in the Financial District of New York. The site – bounded by Greenwich Street to the West, Vesey Street to the North, Church Street to the East, and Fulton Street to the South – is currently used as a secondary entrance to the PATH trains and subway lines.
Norman Foster updates vision for 2 World Trade Center
The new design features green terraces and vertical bands, to emphasize verticality.
Image courtesy of Foster + Partners. Rendering by Visualhouse
Image courtesy of Foster + Partners. Rendering by Visualhouse
Image courtesy of Foster + Partners. Rendering by Visualhouse
Image courtesy of Foster + Partners. Rendering by Visualhouse
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- Lucia Brandoli
- 09 February 2022
The renderings show the commercial skyscraper clad in glass with horizontal metal strips between each floor and vertical bands that run the height of the structure and delineate its various sections, in order to break up the monolithic appearance of the tower’s longer sides and emphasize its verticality. The tower shows also a multitude of setbacks across the eastern elevation and culminates with four offset roof parapets shown as green roofs.
The highest point of the tower is estimated to reach the 1,350 feet circa, but the exact floor count has yet to be formally announced. The building will rise from a foundation of the early 2010s, built before work stalled, and the ground-floor footprint seems to remain unchanged, unlike 2015 Bjarke Ingels Group’s design.
The tower also features landscaped terraces positioned across all four sides of the tower, providing views of the 9/11 Memorial, the Oculus by Santiago Calatrava Architects, the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center, Liberty Park with St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, and the four other office towers of the complex.