Tower 3

Designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, 175 Greenwich Street will sit at the center of the various buildings around the WTC Memorial site, across Greenwich Street from the main axis formed by the memorial's two reflecting pools. The tower was designed to address this central position, its verticality accentuated relative to the memorial site. As suggested in the WTC Master Plan, the tower will be recognizable in the skyline, reaching higher than the adjacent and smaller building at 150 Greenwich Street and featuring a unique stepped profile and antennae.

The design employs a structural load-sharing system of diamond-shaped bracing, which helps to articulate the building's east-west configuration. All corners of the tower are column free to ensure that occupiers of the office levels have unimpeded 360-degree panoramic views of New York.

The upper levels of the tower appear to straddle the lower levels - referred to as the "podium building" - helping to reduce the impact of the building's high volume and emphasize the interlocking nature of the base with the upper part of the building. The lobby - three levels high - will be on Greenwich Street, providing tenants and visitors a "big picture window" onto the WTC Memorial.

175 Greenwich Street offers a strong interface with the public realm along Cortlandt and Dey Streets, both of which will be redeveloped into pedestrian areas. This, in turn, will improve the accessibility of the retail space in the building, as well as help to integrate it more completely with the WTC Transportation Hub to the north of Dey Street.