2WTC Renderings Released Ahead of Construction

Foster + Partners, in collaboration with developer Silverstein Properties, released updated renderings of Two World Trade Center (2WTC) ahead of construction re-starting sometime this spring, ArchDaily reported on March 2. The 373-m-tall, 56-story skyscraper will serve as the new global headquarters for American Express and sit directly across from the Santiago Calatrava-designed Oculus transportation hub in Lower Manhattan, NYC. Excavation for the final commercial tower at 200 Greenwich Street initially began in 2008, but disagreements between the Port Authority and Silverstein resulted in delays and a re-design by Bjarke Ingels Group. With funding and an anchor tenant secured, Silverstein returned to Foster + Partners in 2020 to update the design, which now incorporates more than one acre of outdoor landscaped space and a stepped composition of slender volumes rising from a rectilinear base. The elevator package for 2WTC has not yet gone out for bid. That could happen later this year.