A new redesign has been revealed for 2 World Trade Center, the final supertall component of the 16-acre World Trade Center complex in Manhattan’s Financial District. Designed by Norman Foster of Foster + Partners and developed by Silverstein Properties, the skyscraper is now slated to stand 62 stories and 1,230 feet tall, down from the 80-story, 1,348-foot-tall scope of the previous iteration. The building will yield 2.2 million square feet of office space and rise from a full-block property bounded by Vesey Street to the north, Fulton Street to the south, Church Street to the east, and Greenwich Street to the west.
The main rendering above showcases the overall World Trade Center complex with 2 World Trade Center in the center. The scaled-back skyscraper is depicted culminating in a tall white spire, though apart from this the general design language has been left unchanged. This includes the signature use of stepped setbacks on the eastern elevation and staggered loggias on the western face, which will all make space for 12,000 square feet of landscaped terraces.
The below image from across the Hudson River shows 2 World Trade Center’s roof level reaching approximately 1,100 feet, slightly higher than the 1,079-foot-tall parapet of RSHP’s 3 World Trade Center to the southeast.
2 World Trade Center. Designed by Foster + Partners.
The following street-level perspective previews the complex from the intersection of Church and Dey Streets, offering a closer look at the stepped setbacks and horizontal-louvered façade. The staggered loggia cutouts in the southern elevation have been removed from the redesign, in favor of a largely uninterrupted glass curtain wall facing Santiago Calatrava’s Oculus transit hub. The tilt-shift perspective in this image makes the structure appear taller than 1 World Trade Center, but the building’s pared-down scope ensures that the structure will not compete with the focal point of the Lower Manhattan skyline.
2 World Trade Center. Designed by Foster + Partners.
The watercolor below provides a similar vantage point to the second rendering, but from a slightly higher perspective. This illustration previews how 2 World Trade Center will complete the complex’s progression in height from the 977-foot-tall 4 World Trade Center up to the 1,776-foot-tall 1 World Trade Center.
2 World Trade Center. Designed by Foster + Partners.
The following images are from our last update in last September, when the previous iteration was unveiled with scale models of the complex.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Office amenities at 2 World Trade Center are planned to include an indoor/outdoor auditorium and performance space, a fitness and wellness center, tenant lounge, wellness suites, and on-demand conference rooms, meeting rooms, and event spaces. A cafe and dining accommodations will be located on the ground floor along with concierge services.
A construction timeline for 2 World Trade Center will likely not be announced until Silverstein Properties is able to secure an anchor tenant for the building. The developer had been courting American Express to potentially fill this role, though no further news has emerged since last fall.
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OK, better..less crowding of 1 World Trade, more repectful..
Respectful? Are you kidding? It’s an office building, and not the nicest one we have in this city. Do you think the dead care about “crowding” of one building in the same complex by another? Smh. (Btw I was here for 9/11 so don’t even start with that.)
I was here, too. It is a quarter of a century later. Let’s move forward. This will be a nice building. Let’s hope Larry lands an anchor tenant soon!
Frankly, it’s a mess. Could be anywhere in the world so derivative classic foster lately. Yawn.
Very disappointing it’s being scaled down from 1,348-feet-tall to 1,230 feet tall. 🙁
Just build the old towers back
Literally bruh
WTC #1 is looking less exciting as time goes on. WTC #2 will add some interest to the otherwise boring glass facades of the area. I do prefer the earlier design to this one.
WTC #1 looks less exciting? How does a building look less exciting? Do you tell your wife she looks less exciting as time goes on? C’mon man, this building is a middle finger to New York and should be a second building
I was kinda vibing with the stacked blocks design from a while back. Regardless excited to see something get going there
WTC #1 is the worst with its ridiculous antenna. Terrible design.
WTC 1 actually looks great bruh
I think I prefer the Norman Foster design, and its greater height which was much closer to that of the original destroyed tower. The stacked box Bjarke Ingels design was nice as well.
This is a decent version that hopefully will get built. But office space just isn’t in big demand Downtown and I keep wondering if this should be housing instead. Either way, something needs to be built here to finally finish this project.
While demand for new office space isn’t growing, we are continuing to convert older offices to residential so we will need to keep building some new office buildings or conversions will slow/stop.
Not bad. Haven’t heard anything going on at WTC site in years.
Seriously, they only recently completed the Perelman Center and Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church. 9 WTC should be going up very soon too.
It fits in nicely with the surrounding architecture and the spire is a tasteful addition.
This design is seems like a stretch of the sleek glass asthstetic the site is pulling off. I personally think the spire throws off the upward flow of the towers. I hope they revive the 2006 design.
Yeah, this version is still too busy..
Sometimes contrasts work, but the blocky, jumbled & dull finish of proposed WTC2 does not work with & against sleek ,shiny & soaring WTC1. Why not just duplicate WTC1 and truly restore the “Twin Towers” to New York City?
Or why not just rebuild one of the WTC towers and call it a day?
another boring building with not character making the area more depressing.
Certainly not a depressing area!
This sucks. the original design was beautiful and the last connection to the “wedge of light” master plan. I hate these stacks of boxes.
Foster used to give us icons, this site needed another icon.
I do like this new design but I also like the original.
I am not happy about shrinking its size however. Please give it the height it deserves.
Meh… Return the Diamond wedge of light. Focus on building 5WTC first
Stack o’ boxes. How is this special?
I like it. The spire looks great in the ensemble. Let’s finally get it done.
I’m okay with the reduced height, as it allows One World Trade to still appear more isolated. The one thing I don’t like is the spire, it has zero purpose and detracts from the one atop One World Trade.
I like the spire – it evolves from the tower iteself NOT just plopped on top; the spire is an outgrowth of the “pier” that begins at the second (?) floor level and shoots straight up and extends “endlessly.” Now, the tower is fine, a carefully sculpted mass but the building bottoms out into a giant clumsey-looking box as it extends eastward – not graceful.
While I still love the original design with the sloped diamond roofs, I can live with this one. The BIG design from a few years back was truly awful.
I had wished that Larry built an exact duplicate but taller twin towers at the site as a sign of American defiance and spirit.
Hideous. Please go back to the 4 diamonds design! Or do something to pay homage to the original 2 world trade. It should complement 1 world trade without being and exact duplicate.
I think it looks great ! Agreed time to work on the skyline for today and tomorrow ! Let always keep are eye in the rear view mirror but focused eye on the here and now and tomorrow. The future will hold the best memories of what Downtown is and should grow up again to be. A vibrant community within our city. I always went it the trade center pre-911. Went to too numerous times to many to count and had clients there too. let’s live it again.
What a joke!! BUILD A TWIN!!!…. my God!!!
What’s going on with 5wtc? We need the housing asap, more office space..meh…still lots around and available.
I really do prefer this design rather than it without the spire, but I still think the Diamond Tower design is still my favorite and still think they should build that one since they have the foundation built for that one already
Wish they could just build another freedom tower and we will have an amazing
New twin towers💯💯
Is there demand for office space ? So many articles keep stating there is an oversupply and that Ai will eliminate jobs.
Taller would fit in better- but this is just another exercise as nothing will go forward without a tenant- and Silverstein has been searching for an anchor fruitlessly for more than a decade
The terraced building fad is old already. In twenty years do you think they’ll still be maintaining them. This design looks dated already. The terraced are only good to use a few months of the year, and what about wind and storms. The original diamond design is what they should go with. It was exciting, timeless and elegant. There is absolutely NOTHING great about this current design.
Are there two different sections of glass going up the height of the eastern elevation?..it seems very ‘busy’..would be nice to see it more clearly
Only a second identical tower to Freedom, named Independence, will show the world the audacity of America, like only NYC can!
Please build the Diamond shaped tower it was beautiful
Just get i done and WTC5 as well. I want to see the WTC area completed and I’m not getting younger.
What happened to the housing crisis y’all?
They terrorists certainly won. The entire area is a complete mess. Those memorials disrupt the continuity of the neighborhood and nobody even died in those spaces, I said from day one that the only way to reclaim the office space lost by the demolition of the TEW in towers is to build so,e other set of twin towers, and if built to the height each were attacked then the memorials could be put at the top of each in the physical space that was attacked making a more powerful impact on visitors, while also restoring the lost commercial space below and restoring the neighborhood to a contiguous and connected space rather that this obstacle that exists today that disconnects traffic and pedestrian flow.
“Nobody died in those spaces…”
ARE YOU F*CKING KIDDING ME?!?! Do the nearly 3,000 names inscribed around the memorial pools not mean anything to you???
You sound as delusional as a Holocaust denier or believing the 2020 election was rigged. 🤡
I wouldn’t go as far to say that people didn’t die on 9/11, or that the planes weren’t real, or that the Holocaust didn’t happen, but you bet your bottom dollar this was an inside job. It couldn’t have been pulled off without military precision. The government wasn’t asleep at the wheel like you probably believe. It wasn’t incompetence or a failure of imagination. You’re just too damn asleep to see what’s really going on in this world to pay attention. Your first thought is that everything contrary to what the government and media conglomerates utter is a mere outlandish and fringe conspiracy theory. Look how many conspiracy theories turned out to be true in the last decade. Wake up from your deep slumber…
Jesus I hope you are just a bot XG, because saying how nobody died at the twin towers is the biggest act of denial I’ve read in the comment section. You must be one of those 9/11 conspiracy believers thinking the planes were holograms, or the terrorist attack was an inside job. Go crawl back under your rock jagoff
The attack was an inside job but to be this delusional and think that everything just coincidentally collapsed is ridiculous when WTC 3, 4, or 5 didn’t collapse.
XG, so not only are you (wrongfully) claiming that people didn’t die at the site of the twin towers, but you’re also implying that the new set of streets and sidewalks that were reimplemented at the World Trade Center site do more to disconnect traffic flow and pedestrians than the giant concrete super block of the original site?? This is all preposterous beyond anyone’s mind who was old enough to have worked/visited the site pre-9/11 and it’s shameful the way you are spreading such incorrect info. You clearly sound like someone born after the attacks and believe what you see on TikTok made by amateur ‘content creators’ that only rely on click bait and not stick to facts.
I think this is a decent version on a few levels. First is form. Sorry, but the last iteration was just another Jenga building, a fad that’s not my fav. However, this new design is more classically wedding cake and therefore more appropriately NYC. Second, is context/siteplan. The updated design seems like it will be more respectful of WTC 1 in massing, design, and spacing.
Horrible what they did. They should have just built the Twin Towers again stronger and taller. NYC skyline used to look tough with the Twin Towers now it looks like it could be any other city. Very generic and boring. I hate what they have done. Disgusting.
This is an outrageous take. Sure and yes they should’ve rebuilt the twin towers, but WTC 1 looks unique. Can you show me any building that looks exactly like that, if not similar? No other city skylines look like NYC does. Chicago might be similar, sure, but it’s not even close. They should just rebuild the second tower as the original design and call it a day for sure.
It already appears outdated. The terraces only draw attention to the uninspired stacked boxes that seem contrived and contribute to the cluttered mess of the area.
I don’t know… I like the area in its current form – I don’t want ten more years of a construction site.