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Charged with creating three major commercial skyscrapers that will each integrate seamlessly into the overall master plan for the WTC site, a select group of the world's most accomplished architectural and engineering firms has been assembled to form a single WTC Design Team. Each firm has a vital function in the design process.
A division of Silverstein Properties, Inc. created to oversee the company's rebuilding efforts at the WTC site. Led by Larry Silverstein, the team
Foster + Partners, headed by Norman Foster, is the designer for Tower 2 of the WTC site, to be located at 200 Greenwich Street. The tallest of the Greenwich Street towers, this soaring structure topped by a pinnacle of diamond-shaped roofs will be the second-tallest building at the site and in New York, after the Freedom Tower.
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners is the designer for Tower 3, to be located at 175 Greenwich Street at the WTC site. Headed by U.K. architect Richard Rogers, the firm has designed a 1,155-foot-tower with prominent setbacks and an exposed exterior structural diagrid system.
Leading Japanese architectural firm Maki & Associates, founded by Fumihiko Maki, is the designer for Tower 4 of the WTC site, to be located at 150 Greenwich Street. The firm's minimalist-inspired tower is the third of the three WTC towers to be developed by Silverstein Properties.
Adamson Associates, a major international architectural firm based in Ontario, Canada, is serving as architect of record for all three Greenwich Street towers. Within the last 25 years, the firm expanded its scope to undertake large-scale projects including the World Financial Center and headquarters for the Hearst Corporation, Bank of America, and Goldman Sachs in New York; Canary Wharf in London; and Kuala Lumpur City Center, 'The World's Tallest Towers' in Malaysia.
Cantor Seinuk is a globally recognized structural engineering firm based in New York. Having worked on dozens of the largest projects in New York City, the firm's structural engineers join the WTC Design Team as consultants for Towers 2 and 3 of the WTC site. Separately, they are also the structural engineers for the Freedom Tower, the tallest of the planned skyscrapers on the WTC site.
Leslie E. Robertson Associates, the structural engineering firm that designed the original trade center's twin towers, has returned to help rebuild the site by providing structural engineering designs for Tower 4.
JB&B, a full-service mechanical and electrical consulting engineer firm, is the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineer for the three Greenwich Street towers and the Freedom Tower.