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An Apollonaut travel guide
A city rebuilt.
An introduction to Lower Manhattan around the World Trade Center, where One World Trade Center rises above the memorial and the streets of the Financial District.
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Read the city from the plaza
One World Trade Center stands beside the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, with the World Trade Center Oculus close by. Its glass faces reflect the sky and the neighbouring towers.
A city guide can give context without turning a neighbourhood into a backdrop. This is a place of remembrance as well as a working part of the city: move through it with care.
Glass and steel
From the street, the tower’s glass faces reflect the sky and the neighbouring buildings, and change with the light through the day.
Begin with a detail and ask how it was made and maintained. A photograph alone cannot tell you who designed a façade or fitted its glass, or the conditions in which they worked.
An observatory chapter
From the 100th floor, Lower Manhattan’s narrow older streets lie below, with the newer towers of the World Trade Center around them.
Look at the meeting of the two: the street pattern of the old city and the glass towers of the new one.
Make room for context
Pair this city reading with One World Observatory’s history and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places or represents the people who made them.
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Sources & further reading
Links lead to the original publishers.
