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2 World Trade Center

New York, United States

Client

Silverstein Properties & 21st Century Fox / News Corp

Typology

Work

Size m2/ft2

139,354 / 1,500,000

Status

Idea

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VERTICAL VILLAGE + MODERN TOWER — The design of 2 WTC is derived from its urban context at the meeting point between two very different neighborhoods: the Financial District with its modernist skyscrapers and TriBeCa with its lofts and roof gardens.

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Built on a Strong Foundation — The needs and requirements of the tenants are concentrated into seven separate building volumes, each tailored to their unique activities. The volumes are stacked on top of each other from the largest to the smallest, creating unity out of diversity.

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Learning Towards 1 WTC — As a result of the stacked volumes, the building steps at an angle parallel to the incline of 1 WTC. A nod to the twins that previously stood on the site.

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The Site — 2 WTC is located at 200 Greenwich Street and bounded by Church Street to the East, Vesey Street to the North and Fulton Street to the South. The base of the building utilizes the maximum area of the 56,000 sq ft site.

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Stepping Terraces to St. Paul's Chapel — The terraces are heavily planted, creating a vertical succession of the greenery rising from St. Paul's to the skyline.

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Transition Between Typologies — Floorplates between the maximum-size and minimum-size are optimized to specific tenant needs and requirements.

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Following the "Wedge of Light" — 2 WTC is aligned along the axis of Daniel Libeskind's "Wedge of Light" plaza to preserve the views to St. Paul's Chapel from the Memorial Park.

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2 WTC — 2 WTC is a building that brings together TriBeCa and FiDi at the nexus of the Memorial Park.

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“The skyscraper is a New York native that came to populate the Financial District downtown. As an architectural typology, it has seen little innovation since its inception at the beginning of the 20th century. With the transformation of the Financial District into a vibrant neighborhood for creative companies in media, technology and design, the classic corporate tower tailored for finance needed rethinking. By conceiving the tower as a vertical village of individual city blocks of different proportions and floor plates, with terraces and roof gardens, the traditional vertical silhouette of the modern skyscraper is animated to become a lively new character on the Manhattan skyline.”
Bjarke Ingels - Founder & Creative Director, BIG
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Partner in Charge

Bjarke Ingels

Thomas Christoffersen

Martin Voelkle

Project Director

Douglass Alligood

Project Architect

Linus Saavedra

Project Manager

Ute Rinnebach

Project Team

Kai-Uwe Bergmann

Daniel Sundlin

Jakob Lange

Dominyka Voelkle

Florencia Kratsman

Haochen Yu

Jan Leenknegt

Julie Kaufman

Maki Matsubayashi

Otilia Pupezeanu

Sebastian Claussnitzer

Seo Young Shin

Shane Dalke

Terrence Chew

Thomas McMurtrie

Yu Inamoto

Zhonghan Huang

Lawrence-Olivier Mahadoo

Deb Campbell

Francesca Portesine

Ji-Young Yoon

Adam Sheraden

Adrian Subagyo

Alessandra Peracin

Alice Cladet

Amina Blacksher

Armen Menendian

Athena Morella

Benson Chien

Cadence Merrie Bayley

Carolien Schippers

Catherine Papst

Christi Farrell

Christopher White

Daisy Zhong

David Brown

David Zhai

Di Wang

Doug Stechschulte

Emily Watts

Eva Maria Mikkelsen

Hector Garcia-Castrillo

Molly Hsiao Rou Huang

Iben Falconer

Jennifer Kimura

Jennifer Wood

Jessica Jiang

John Hilmes

John Kim

Jonathan Rieke

Kristoffer Negendahl

Lauren Connell Falla

Lisbet Fritze Trentemøller

Lucio Santos

Maria Sole Bravo

Manon Otto

Margaret Kim

Maureen Rahman

Mustafa Khan

Nicholas Coffee

Pablo Costa Fraiz

Paul Manhertz

Sabri Farouki

Simon Lee

Supakrit Wongviboonsin

Tara Hagan

Thomas Yaher

Tiago Sá

Tore Banke

Vivien Cheng

Yaziel Juarbe

Ali Chen

Dong-Joo Kim

Iva Ulam

Lucas Hong

Rune Hansen

Tammy Teng

Awards

AIANY Design Awards Honor for Future Project, 2016

Collaborators

Acoustic Distinctions

Adamson Associates

AMAPC

CCI

D-BOX

Gardiner & Theobald

Gensler

Jaros

Baum & Bolles

Radii Inc.

Squint Opera

Turner Construction

Van Deusen & Associates

VIDARIS

WSP

BIG Ideas