Pursuits
One World Trade Center Wins Claim to Tallest U.S. Tower
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Lower Manhattan’s 1 World Trade Center was deemed the tallest tower in the U.S. by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, which ruled that the skyscraper’s 408-foot spire is part of its architecture.
The group’s height committee decided that the tower’s official height is 1,776 feet (541 meters), Timothy Johnson, chairman of the council, said at a press briefing today in New York. That surpasses Chicago’s Willis Tower, at 1,451 feet, as the country’s tallest.