For Two World Trade Center, Bjarke Ingels has created a tower with multiple personalities. From the 9/11 Memorial, the building, with its seamless glass facade, appears like a somber glass giant huddled around the hallowed site with its peers. But from pretty much anywhere else, the building is quite expressive with a stepped massing scheme that appears like a stack of boxes, a ziggurat sliced in half, or a staircase for King King.
Two World Trade from Tribeca. (Courtesy DBOX and BIG)
To give New Yorkers a better sense of how the 1,340-foot-tall building will impact the city’s skyline when it opens in 2020, the New York Times has created a nifty visualization that shows the tower’s virtual appearance from Brooklyn Bridge Park, Staten Island, Flushing, Queens, the Bronx Zoo, and Hoboken. Brownstoner reported that Ingels and New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman unveiled the visualization at the Times‘ Cities for Tomorrow Conference on Monday.
For more on the tower’s design, check out our Q+A with Ingels from the day he unveiled his design.
