While foundation work trudges along, our attention turns skyward, to the building's 408-foot spire that will bring the Freedom Tower's overall height to ... like the office floors before it ...

Its main roof will be the same height ... on each floor. Stairs, communications, risers, sprinklers and elevators will be encased in 3-foot-thick walls. "The redesigned Freedom Tower speaks ...

With one eye on monolithism and the other on monotheism, the powers that be will unveil the new Freedom ... floors topped with a restaurant, and two observation decks 3) Antenna brings height ...

Does a building’s height stop at the highest usable ... of the Sears Tower stands 83 feet taller than the Freedom Tower’s highest floor, yet the Freedom Tower will likely be named the country ...

"A new design for the Freedom Tower is required," Pataki said, citing security concerns raised in recent weeks by the New York Police Department. Certain details, such as the 1,776-foot height and ...

And as the building gets taller -- its final height will be 1,776 feet -- the ... who would otherwise spend 40 minutes traveling from the upper floors to street level just to grab a bite to ...

It turns out that in another important respect, the Freedom Tower would echo the ... shafts running the full height of the building, dictating a transfer floor, an unexceptional feature of high ...

The Freedom Tower, scheduled to be opened in 2013, is being built to a height of 1,776 feet (541 meters), which is a symbolic figure reminiscent of the US year of independence. The glass walls have ...

The change from Freedom Tower was revealed Thursday at a news ... Ten of the building's planned 108 above-ground floors have been built. "The fact is, more than $3 billion of public money is ...