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See the map of the area
World Financial Center is a group of four towers, completed
in 1988, built on the Hudson River landfill next to the World
Trade Center.
1 World Financial Center
Floors: 40
Erected: 1986
Architect: Cesar Pelli and Adamson &
Assocs
Roof shape: A cut pyramid
Tower occupant: Dow Jones and Oppenheimer
2 World Financial Center
Height: 196.5 m
Floors: 51
Erected: 1987
Architect: Cesar Pelli and Haines Lundberg
Waehler
Roof shape: A dome
Tower occupant: Merrill Lynch
3 World Financial Center
Address: 200 Vesey Street
Height: 225.5 m
Floors: 54
Erected: 1985
Architect: Cesar Pelli and Adamson &
Assocs
Roof shape: A solid pyramid
Tower occupant: American Express
4 World Financial Center
Address: 250 Vesey Street
Erected: 1986
Architect: Cesar Pelli and Haines Lundberg
Roof shape: A stepped pyramid
Tower occupant: Merrill Lynch
Winter Garden between the 2 and 3 WFC
Built: 1988
Architect: Cesar Pelli and Adamson &
Assocs., landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg & Assocs.
Winter Garden has 16 12-meter palm trees from the Mojave Desert. The
roof of the garden is 38 m high and 60 m long.
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| Cruise ship Nordic Empress leaves the port of New
York for Bermuda. May 2002. |
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| Cruise ship Pacific Princess on the way to Bermuda,
with downtown Manhattan and World Financial Center in the background.
September 2002. |
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| The view on the World Financial Center from the
Hudson River, with the World Trade Center gone. From left to right:
3 WFC (piramid roof), 4
WFC (stepped piramid roof), 2 WFC
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| The view on the World Financial Center from the
Hudson River. The damage to 3 WFC
is visible (above the Winter Garden). |
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The towers are all connected to each other either through their bases
or by walkways. Two covered bridges cross West Street, connecting the
Center to the World Trade Center (the North Bridge with 60 meters of clear
span) and the block south of the WTC compound (the South Bridge, 67 meters).
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| The view on World Financial Center from the West
Side Highway on 7 October 2001. |
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