NEW YORK CITY—Making the concept of Two World Trade Center into a reality, building architect Bjarke Ingles Group has unveiled its design for the office tower.

Development of the building, which has not yet broken ground, was propelled forward last week after two major corporations signed letters of intent with landlord Silverstein Properties to take a combined 1.3 million square feet of space. The firms, News Corp. and 21^st Century Fox, made clear they plan to take on a role in the building's design. Early plans suggest a big departure from the original plans, which were more geared to financial services tenants.

“Bjarke Ingels' conceptual design for 2 WTC fits perfectly into the World Trade Center site, as part of Daniel Libeskind's Master Plan and alongside the outstanding work of David Childs, Richard Rogers, Fumihiko Maki and Santiago Calatrava,” says Larry Silverstein, chairman, Silverstein Properties. “While we have a lot of work ahead of us, I am thrilled to partner with 21st Century Fox, News Corp and Bjarke Ingels Group in creating a new architectural icon on what will be Downtown's fully restored skyline.”

Adds Ingels,founding partner, BIG, “The completion of the World Trade Center will restore the majestic skyline of Manhattan and unite the streetscapes of TriBeCa with the towers Downtown. To complete this urban reunification we propose a tower that will feel equally at home in TriBeCa and the World Trade Center. From TriBeCa, the home of lofts and roof gardens, it will appear like a vertical village of singular buildings stacked on top of each other to create parks and plazas in the sky. From the World Trade Center, the individual towers will appear unified, completing the colonnade of towers framing the 9/11 Memorial. Horizontal meets vertical. Diversity becomes unity.”

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Two WTC Design Is Revealed

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