CHICAGO – The new World Trade Center tower in New York knocked Chicago's Willis Tower off its pedestal as the nation's tallest building when an international panel of architects announced Tuesday that the needle atop the skyscraper can be counted when measuring the structure's height.The Height Committee of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat said the needle is not an antenna but a spire, and thus is a permanent part of the [...]
1 World Trade Center Officially Named As Tallest U.s. Building
DON BABWIN, Associated Press, Journal Star
Tue, 11/12/2013 - 3:49am
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