June 12 2018 | By Bridget Cogleyk for Dezeen
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Officially Completes Three World Trade Center In New York City
Architecture firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has completed the construction of Three World Trade Center in Manhattan, which is now the city’s fifth-tallest building.
The skyscraper spans 80 storeys and reaches 1,079 feet (329 metres) high, making it currently the second tallest building at the redeveloped World Trade Center site.
External construction work in complete – as celebrated at an event yesterday, 11 June 2018 – but many of the interior spaces are yet to be fitted out.
Also known as 3WTC, the building is surrounded by 10,000 floor-to-ceiling glass panels and based on a reinforced concrete core. Steel girders and beams form a lattice K-shaped pattern up the sides of the tower.
3WTC’s rectangular windows echo those on its closest neighbour, Four World Trade Center by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, so two appear as a pair. Both were developed by Silverstein Properties, which has the rights to the land where the Twin Towers formerly stood before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Beyond 3WTC’s glazed perimeter is a high wall design that demarcates the lobby inside, with a black Zimbabwe granite slab overhead. Floors are lined with Sardinian grey granite, while other surfaces kept white.
For ventilation, air is drawn into the building from high up the tower – so it is supposedly cleaner than at ground level – and then filtered to remove chemical pollutants.
“All occupied spaces of the building are supplied with more outside ventilate air than required by code,” said a statement.
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