“Office buildings are our factories – whether for tech, creative or traditional industries we must continue to grow our modern factories to create new jobs,” said United States Senator Chuck Schumer.
November 17, 2014
NEW YORK CITY – The 541-meter (1,776-foot) One World Trade Center has now become the world’s third-tallest building, according to the height criteria set by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). One World Trade Center now ranks only behind the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE (828 meters) and the Makkah Royal Clock Tower in Mecca, Saudi Arabia (601 meters) in the tallest building stakes. The office building at the center of the massive rebuilt World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York, opened its doors Nov. 3 to an anchor tenant, media company Condé Nast.
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Please no spire /antenna discussion here. It's just news.
Or, tallest building in the world, outside of the Arabian Peninsula.
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My most comprehensive skyline review yet. Seven miles of the skyline in high definition on close zoom, from Downtown to around 100th Street in Manhattan. Of course, every supertall in the city is featured.
There are of course many more projects currently under way, but you get the idea. Also some models aren't correct (like 1 Vanderbilt which is more elegant and 1,514ft).
What a beauty! I wonder what the property owner will do now?
Anyways, can someone take NYT Tower out of the list? It's not a supertall really and it literally has a needle sticking out 300'+ in the air. BOA tower should be taken out of the list but it does a half-assed attempt of being a decent mast. (i.e. having lights unlike the non-functional NYTT stick), so it can stay.
Thats the flaw with how spires are measured. Bank Of America, now thats a spire, but the NYT, eh, that IMO shouldn't count because its a disgrace as a spire, but o well, another supertall to the list is always a plus. The debate on 1WTC will remain for years to come, but given its size, and functionality, it is definitely spire worthy. Although what was done to it compared to the original spire proposal was an architectural blunder; even if it meant saving a couple of million. But in the world of skyscrapers, dollar values matter, even if it involves castrating a tower.
Thats the flaw with how spires are measured. Bank Of America, now thats a spire, but the NYT, eh, that IMO shouldn't count because its a disgrace as a spire, but o well, another supertall to the list is always a plus. The debate on 1WTC will remain for years to come, but given its size, and functionality, it is definitely spire worthy. Although what was done to it compared to the original was an architectural blunder.
^ I won't take the NYTT out of the list, although I personally don't consider it a supertall. I'll side with CTBUH here (as controversial as they might be) as we need a standard for skyscraper measurement. In general they are doing a pretty decent job.
Of course there's no such thing as "official" but CTBUH is by far the most acknowledged organisation when it comes to skyscraper info.
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New York Office Towers Pop Up Despite Sluggish Market
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Real-estate developers are piling into the nation’s largest office market at the fastest rate in at least two decades despite sluggish demand for space, a gamble that tenants will favor gleaming new skyscrapers over the hundreds already dotting the New York skyline.
Landlords including Related Cos., World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein and Brookfield Property Partners LP are pushing ahead with big projects, including three office buildings roughly the size of the Empire State Building and a midtown tower set to rise 264 feet taller than the 1931-built icon.
In all, more than 14.1 million square feet of office space is projected to be built in Manhattan by 2019, according to research firm CoStar Group Inc., the most over a five-year period since at least the early 1990s.
But demand is slack. Occupancy of Manhattan office space increased by 4.8 million square feet in the four years ended in September, according to CoStar, compared with the 28 million square feet gain in the four years ended in 2007, the last major expansion in the Manhattan office market. Vacancy stood at 8.1% at the end of the third quarter, compared with 5.4% in 2007.
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