First World Trade Center tower opens 12 years after 9/11. The 977-foot-tall 4 World Trade Center - the smallest of the grounds' four main towers - became the first to open Wednesday. The 72-story building has signed leases with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the city of New York, who combined will fill about half of the building's 2.3-million square footage.

The first office tower at Ground Zero since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center will open on Wednesday, marking a comeback for the Lower Manhattan site.

World Trade Center Tower 4 - 150 Greenwich Street.

150 Greenwich Street belongs to a collective group of buildings and is an integral part of the World Trade Center Redevelopment that is guided by Studio Daniel Liebeskind's Masterplan. Of the towers planned for the site, this building forms the fourth tallest, reaching a height of 947 feet and comprised of sixty-one floors. The site is bounded by Greenwich, Liberty, Church and Cortlandt Street, which will be an important access point to the World Trade Center Complex from Wall Street on the southeast corner via Zucotti Park.

The primary function of the project is aimed at providing 1.8 million square feet of office space. The podium will consist of five levels of retail space and a Transit Hall that will provide access to the transportation and retail concourse below grade. The fundamental approach to the design of the project is two-fold - a "minimalist" tower that achieves an appropriate presence, quiet but with dignity, on a site facing the Memorial and a "podium" that becomes a catalyst in activating/enlivening the immediate urban environment as part of the redevelopment efforts of lower Manhattan. The facades are clad in a floor to ceiling glass assembly that sandwich perforated meshed metal material at the spandrel areas and portions immediately below the ceiling to provide shading on the interior and a certain lightness and transparency on the exterior. From afar in the skyline, the tower is intended to present a unique angular profile with a distinct materiality composed of glass and metal.

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Architect of Record.- Adamson Associates Architects.
Structural Engineer.- Leslie E. Robertson Associates.
Mechanical / Electrical Engineer.- Jaros Baum & Bolles Consulting Engineers.
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Offices.- 167225 sqm. (1,800,000 sf)
Retail.- 14864 sqm. (160,000 sf)
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2013.
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New York, United States of America.
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Joe Woolhead.
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Fumihiko Maki. (Born in Tokyo in 1928 - Tokyo June 6th 2024). Graduated from the University of Tokyo Department of Architecture in 1952. Holds a master's degree at Cranbrook Academy of Art and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Worked at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Sert Jackson and Associates. Taught as associate professor at the University of Washington and Harvard University from 1956 to 1965. Returned to Japan in 1965 and established Maki and Associates. Taught as a professor at the University of Tokyo from 1979 to 1989. Notable awards include the 1988 Wolf Prize in Arts, the 1990 Thomas Jefferson Awards for Public Architecture, the 1993 International Union of Architects (UIA) Gold Medal and the Prince of Wales Prize in Urban Design presented by Harvard University, the 1999 Arnold Brunner Memorial Architecture Award and the Praemium Imperiale for Architecture. Was awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 1993 and received the Gold Medal from the AIA American Institute of Architects in 2011.

Maki and Associates was established in 1965 by Fumihiko Maki, upon his return from a ten year period of study, teaching, and practice in the United States. The office has been based in Tokyo throughout its 42 year history, and is currently staffed by forty architects, urban designers, and administrative personnel. This size has been purposefully limited to enable Maki to maintain a close working relationship with each firm member, and daily involvement with each project. Maki personally takes a leadership role in all commissions from design inception through to completion (including construction supervision).

http://www.maki-and-associates.co.jp/e/index.shtml

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Published on: November 18, 2013
Cite: "4 World Trade Center Opening At Ground Zero in NYC" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/4-world-trade-center-opening-ground-zero-nyc> ISSN 1139-6415
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