One World Trade Center build shown in time-lapse – video

The final steps to fill a void in the New York City skyline continued Friday morning as workers raised a 408-foot silver spire atop the One World Trade Center building. The 758-ton spire will serve as a world-class broadcastNew York (CNN) -- Construction workers bolted the last pieces of a 408-foot spire into place atop One World Trade Center on Friday, symbolically capping New York's comeback after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. The spire brings the iconicNEW YORK (Reuters) - Workers cheered and whistled as they completed the spire on New York's One World Trade Center on Friday, raising the building to its full height of 1,776 feet and helping fill a void in the skyline left by the September 11, 2001With the crown of its spire put in place Friday morning, One World Trade Center officially became the tallest building in the Americas. Or did it?1_WTC_rendering The

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