The One World Trade Center is the highest American tower

The experts cut: the highest American skyscraper is One World Trade Center, set up in New York on the place of towers destroyed on September 11th, 2001, a place which was competed to him by Willis Tower of Chicago.

Be architects of the Council of the urban housing environment and tall building (CTBUH) considered that we could take into account, to measure the height of the New York tower, the antenna which puts on it, likened more to an arrow than to a transmitter. 124,4 meters in length, this arrow carries the total height of the tower in 541,3 meters.

" The structure on the top of the building is considered as a permanent architectural element, and not as an element of a technical-functional equipment ", explained the president of the CTBUH, Timothy Johnson, in a communiqué.