Meanings
- alternativenameAlternative name for One World Trade Center, the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in New York City, completed in 2014.
With the installation of a two-piece, 408-foot spire on Thursday, the Freedom Tower — officially known as One World Trade Center — reached its symbolic height of 1,776 feet.
2012 May 11, David W. Dunlap, “A Spire Grasps the Sky, and the Freedom Tower Begins to Look Whole”, in The New York Times1 more example
The tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere officially opened for business on Monday, welcoming its first tenants to the newly constructed tower at the site of the 2001 attacks, widely known during its planning phases as the Freedom Tower.
2014 November 3, J. David Goodman, “1 World Trade Center Reopens Fiftyers After Sept. 11 Attacks”, in The New York Times
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