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At 1,340 feet, Two World Trade Center will appear almost as tall as its neighbor, One World Trade, minus its spire. Looking up from the memorial plaza, the building will appear very straightlaced, Ingels says. Still, as an echo of the diversity of the north and east facades, the stepping in and out actually creates the illusion of a tower that leans in toward One World Trade.
After a secretive design process code-named Project Gotham, the architect was finally ready to talk publicly about his building, which is slated to become the new headquarters of Rupert Murdochs media companies, 21st Century Fox and News Corp. A tentative lease deal was signed last week, and the first renderings were released today to WIRED. From the World Trade Centers Memorial Plaza, the new building will appear slender and serious. But from other perspectives, like the one looking south from the fashionable neighborhood of Tribecawhere Ingels lives and where we were having breakfastthe stepped tower will present a more madcap personality: Ingels 21st-century reinterpretation of one of Manhattans Jazz Age ziggurats.