New York 7 WTC Photo Gallery

Introduction

7 World Trade Center marks the gateway to the new World Trade Center and heralds the spirit of redevelopment and renewal in Lower Manhattan. The 741-foot-tall building contains 42 tenant floors averaging 40,000 square feet. Tenant floors will begin at the 11th floor above grade; the entire building is 52 stories. The first 10 floors are dedicated to building services and a Consolidated Edison substation that supplies electrical service to Lower Manhattan.

"7 World Trade has been an extraordinary opportunity because it allowed us to try out many of the innovations we are using on Freedom Tower. From an urban standpoint it is very important. The most important move was made by Larry Silverstein. He gave up a significant amount of square footage in order to allow Greenwich Street to come through the site. There is now a visual connection between Tribeca, through the World Trade Center site, to the Financial District, that we didn't have before. Larry Silverstein had an obligation to rebuild 7 World Trade and we had to do that right away because of the Con Edison substations underneath which provide the majority of electricity for downtown systems, not only the WTC site."

Excerpt from "Interview with David Childs", by Eva Hagberg, www.Project Rebirth.com

7 WTC offers access to mass transportation (including the A, C, E, 1, 2, 3, N, R, 4, 5, J, M, Z and PATH trains) both at grade and through an underground concourse with entry immediately outside the building and running from the new Fulton Street Transit Center to Battery Park City and the World Financial Center.

David M. Childs is Consulting Design Partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill/New York ("SOM"). A graduate of Yale College and the Yale School of Art and Architecture, Mr. Childs joined the Washington, D.C. office of SOM in 1971 after having served as Design Director of the Pennsylvania Avenue Commission. Later, he was appointed by President Ford to serve as Chairman of the national Capital Planning Commission from 1975 to 1981. His current civic involvements include memberships on the boards of the American Academy in Rome, the Museum of Modern Art, the Municipal Art Society, the National Building Museum, and the Commission of Fine Arts in Washington. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

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