A woman takes a photo from the 68th floor of 4 World Trade Center after the opening ceremony for the building on Nov. 13, 2013 in New York City.
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The first office tower to be completed on the original 16-acre World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan was official declared open on Wednesday. The building was designed by Fumihiko Maki, has 72 floors, is 978 feet tall and offers 2,500,000 square feet of space.
It also offers a commanding view of 1 World Trade Center, which an expert committee of architects declared to be the tallest building in the U.S., surpassing Chicago's Willis Tower. And it continues New York City's recovery from the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that destroyed the original Twin Towers on the site and killed almost 3,000 people.
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On May 10, 2013, the silver spire topping 1 World Trade Center was fully installed on the building's roof, bringing the structure to its full, symbolic height of 1,776 feet in New York City. The new World Trade Center tower in New York knocked Chicago's Willis Tower off its pedestal as the nation's tallest building when an international panel of architects announced Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013 that the needle atop the skyscraper can be counted when measuring the structure's height.
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A woman takes a photo from the 68th floor of 4 World Trade Center after the opening ceremony for the building on Nov. 13, 2013 in New York City.
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Lower Manhattan, including the World Trade Center Memorial, below, can be seen in this view from the 68th floor of newly opened 4 World Trade Center on Nov. 13, 2013 in New York City.
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