Four World Trade Center
The Four World Trade Center, also known as its address 150 Greenwich Street known, is a skyscraper in New York City, which was built under the new World Trade Center complex. On 25 June 2012, the building reached its final height. The grand opening of the skyscraper was on 13 November 2013.
Location
The office building is located at the southeast corner of Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan. His address is 150 Greenwich Street, which is also an alternative to the name of Four World Trade Center is used as a designation for the building ( German World Trade Center Building No. 4). Opposite the Four World Trade Center, on the other side of Greenwich Street, is the One Liberty Plaza. Right next to the tower in the north is to find the construction site of the Three World Trade Center, at his feet is the memorial to the victims of September 11, 2001.
Architecture
The building is 297 meters high and is it the fourth- largest structure of the whole new World Trade Center complex to be. After reaching the final height in June 2012, it is the fifth tallest building in New York and after the construction site of One World Trade Center is the second tallest structure in the southern part of Manhattan. From a height of 217 meters, the angular building narrows to a flat roof in 297 meters. The façade was completely encased in glass. The outer columns and the load-bearing elements of floors made of steel. Inside, the tower on a massive concrete core, in the elevators, stairwells and all supply lines are housed. According to this construction method and the most modern skyscrapers are under construction, as this type of design is especially safe next to the other towers of the complex.
The total floor area of 176,000 m² will be distributed to the 72 above-ground floors, underground skyscraper will have four basements. The lower floors of the tower are provided as a shopping center with many shops, restaurants and cafes. In addition to the technical equipment to be housed in the storeys above only office space; to the already fixed tenants include the New York Port Authority.
Like the other skyscrapers of the new World Trade Center, Four World Trade Center is owned by New York real estate firm Silverstein Properties ( with the exception of One World Trade Center, the property of the New York Port Authority is mostly). For the planning of the building Silverstein Properties chose the Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki. The construction costs alone for Tower 4 at 800 million U.S. dollars.
Use
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ( PANYNJ; Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ) is planning to lease 55,700 sqm of building area for the offices of their new headquarters, which, before its destruction in Tower 1 of the World Trade Center were located. In addition, the City of New York plans to hire 56,000 m². The lower floors to be used by retail companies. There are also restaurants and cafes are to be established as well as access to its own metro station of the WTC occur. Furthermore, it is almost exclusively provide office space.
Construction site
In the spring of 2008, work began with the excavation of the foundation. The actual work on the foundations began in October 2008, the first steel beams and concrete were used. In December we began with the construction of the underground floors. The first of two construction cranes was erected in March 2009. In early June 2009 installed several tons of concrete for the building core. The street level was reached in the fall of 2009. In November first steel parts were built above street level. The second crane was set up on 18 December 2009. In January 2010, the building had reached the height of 10 meters. In October 2010, the first four floors of the building were completed after the concrete core had even crossed the street level. In June 2011, began with the installation of the glass panels on the facade, while the construction had grown to over 32 floors. For the year 2011/ 12 61 floors of the tower were built in the shell. On 16 February 2012, an accident, in which the steel rope of a construction crane tore occurred. No one was injured.
The building reached 25 June 2012 its final height of 297 meters, while the work on the facade at this time on the 50th floor were also advanced. The opening took place on 13 November 2013.