Freedom Tower

Freedom Tower is the centerpiece building of the new World Trade Center complex currently planned for Lower Manhattan. Construction began on April 27 2006. It is projected to be completed by year 2012, some six years away from now.

The height to the top of the spire is set to be 1,776 feet (541 m), a tribute to the year 1776, when the United States Declaration of Independence was drafted.




The Freedom Tower is intended to be taller than Chicago's Sears Tower and become the tallest building in the United States, and among the tallest buildings in the world when completed.

It is gonna surpass Taipei 101 of Taiwan as the tallest building in the world, an honor once held by Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia.