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April 30, 2014 Good article nomineeListed
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Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the " Did you know?" column on May 4, 2014.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that One World Trade Center (pictured), at 1,776 feet (541 m) tall, is the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere?
In the news A news item involving this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the " In the news" column on November 3, 2014.
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Current status: Good article

Actual height is 1792 feet.

Using the “counting the spire as part of the building” the height is 1792 feet.

There is (currently) nothing in the article (or in the link at [5]) to explain why the “tip” is 1792, but the cited height is 1776.

Note: The link at [5] says Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the highest point of the building…

… irrespective of material or function of the highest element (i.e., including antennae, flagpoles, signage and other functional-technical equipment).

Explanation at thetowerinfo.com
In the original design there’s a spire installed atop the roof, but was replaced by a bare antenna in 2012, confusingly CTBUH still maintains the height of 1776 feet for the tower even after the spire had been replaced by the plain antenna, which always doesn’t count in architectural height. The number 1776 of the height in feet represents the year of 1776 when United States Declaration of Independence was signed, in fact the total height of the tower is 546m or 1792 feet as there’s a little skinny component of the antenna beyond the point of 541m, as shown at [ [1]

MBG02 ( talk) 06:31, 28 March 2023 (UTC) reply

The height of the windowless base is actually 186ft (56.7m). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.36.193.221 ( talk) 05:54, 10 February 2024 (UTC) reply

Vandalism on the map

what is "New Daşsak" on the map ? probably vandalism ! Please someone correct it .. I don't know, how ! 77.102.73.170 ( talk) 03:00, 10 May 2023 (UTC) reply

I checked OpenStreetMap and the vandalism isn't there anymore. I think the map in this article failed to update. 205.213.208.210 ( talk) 13:52, 10 May 2023 (UTC) reply

Freedom Tower is the former name?

Don't various people and some sources still call it like this to this day? It's supposed to be the nickname but it used to be the former official name 120.28.224.231 ( talk) 11:59, 19 November 2023 (UTC) reply

Semi-protected edit request on 27 January 2024

as an addition to the line that says it is the tallest building in the western hemisphere, add that it is also the second highest freestanding structure of any kind in the western hemisphere, second only to the cn tower in toronto, canada 76.132.30.242 ( talk) 19:19, 27 January 2024 (UTC) reply

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. M.Bitton ( talk) 21:49, 27 January 2024 (UTC) reply

Split proposal 16 February 2024

It is high time we opened a split proposal for this article into a separate one solely for the original North Tower. There is plenty of history and architectural merit that would warrant a separate article, the same as what was done for 7 World Trade Center (1987-2001), split from it's successor, the modern-day 7 World Trade Center. Similarly, the list of tenants would simply be transferred over to the article on the original North Tower. Previous consensus was in favor of a split as the 2 iterations of 7 WTC were independently notable. Excited to hear thoughts and suggestions. I will be suggesting the same be done for the South Tower. That Coptic Guyping me! ( talk) ( contribs) 18:42, 16 February 2024 (UTC) reply

Support in principle, though I think we might be able to write a combined article on the original Twin Towers. If we do decide to split out each Twin Tower as separate articles, we should move List of tenants in 1 World Trade Center (1971–2001) to 1 World Trade Center (1971–2001) instead, then split out the content. – Epicgenius ( talk) 22:43, 16 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Agreed, just as what was done for 7 World Trade Center (1987-2001)? The list of tenants would merely just be a section in each article as opposed to 2 separate list pages? And we can see if the two towers are different enough for each to deserve its own article. I anticipate that perhaps a section could be devoted to the antenna alone for the North Tower. Though if we do decide to go for the unified article, it'd necessarily have to be significantly different than World Trade Center (1973-2001). That Coptic Guyping me! ( talk) ( contribs) 00:59, 17 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Regarding The list of tenants would merely just be a section in each article as opposed to 2 separate list pages?, yes, I anticipate that would be the case. The two towers share a lot of their history and architecture so that's why I suggested a combined article. Epicgenius ( talk) 02:11, 17 February 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Strong support per nom and the fact that it doesn’t make sense to have one article about two different buildings.
MountainDew20 ( talk) 22:06, 17 February 2024 (UTC) reply