7 World Trade Center, Office skyscraper in Lower Manhattan, New York, US
7 World Trade Center is an office tower in Lower Manhattan that rises 52 stories to a height of 738 feet (225 meters). The facade consists of floor-to-ceiling glass walls with a blue tint, supported by a steel and concrete framework.
Construction finished in 2006, marking the first rebuilt structure at the World Trade Center site after September 11, 2001. David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the structure as part of the area's renewal.
The triangular park across Greenwich Street, designed by David Childs with landscape architects Ken Smith and Annie Weinmayr, holds a fountain whose centrepiece is Jeff Koons's 9-foot stainless steel Balloon Flower (Red). The building's opening on May 23, 2006 was marked by a free concert with Suzanne Vega, Lou Reed and Ronan Tynan.
The tower occupies the block between Greenwich, Vesey, Washington and Barclay Streets, and the rebuilt Greenwich Street passes along its west side. The ground floor is given over to lobby and retail space rather than a public observation area, so the glass curtain wall and the triangular park with Jeff Koons's red steel Balloon Flower across Greenwich Street are what a visitor can see from the street.
As New York City's first LEED Gold certified office building, it uses an on-site microturbine power plant that generates 40 percent of base electrical load needs. This system reduces carbon emissions and makes the building an early example of sustainable design in high-rise construction.
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