World Trade Centre re-opens as 104-storey skyscraper (PHOTOS)

Thirteen years after the famous September 11, 2001 terrorist attack which brought it to ruins, the World Trade Centre in New York, is back. It officially opened for business on Monday.

It is now America’s tallest building, a 104-storey skyscraper in the centre of the 16-acre site where the decimated twin towers once stood before the Osama Bin Laden-led attack brought it down, killing more than 2700 people.

The terrorists had high-jacked a plane and crashed it into the towers.

The building took eight years to rebuild but the construction was captured in a 24seconds GIF file published last year by DailyMotion partnership manager, Dan Milano.


 

The new WTC is now 60 per cent leased with publishing giants, Conde occupying five floors of the tower. Other occupants include advertising firm Kids Creative; stadium operator Legends Hospitality; the BMB Group investment adviser; Servcorp, a provider of executive offices, China Centre, a trade and cultural facility and then the government’s General Services Administration.

This is how Times of India describes the tower: “From the northeast corner of the site, the tower overlooks the National September 11 Memorial & Museum built in the footprints of the twin towers. Its stated aim is to honor those who perished on that sunny September morning.

“For years, the grisly pit where workers found mostly body parts was dubbed the "ground zero" of the aerial terror attack.

“Now, the illuminated spire of One World Trade Center serves as a beacon to planes that fly over the city, seemingly at eye level with the high rise's open rooftop. The view stretches from Manhattan to the Statue of Liberty into New Jersey and Connecticut and all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.

"At night, the incandescent steel-and-glass behemoth can be seen from vessels in New York Harbor approaching Manhattan”.