The World Financial Center

World Financial Center is a group of four towers, completed in 1988, built on the Hudson River landfill next to the World Trade Center.

1 World Financial Center
Floors: 40
Erected: 1986
Architect: Cesar Pelli and Adamson & Assocs
Roof shape: A cut pyramid
Tower occupant: Dow Jones and Oppenheimer

2 World Financial Center
Height: 196.5 m
Floors: 51
Erected: 1987
Architect: Cesar Pelli and Haines Lundberg Waehler
Roof shape: A dome
Tower occupant: Merrill Lynch

3 World Financial Center
Address: 200 Vesey Street
Height: 225.5 m
Floors: 54
Erected: 1985
Architect: Cesar Pelli and Adamson & Assocs
Roof shape: A solid pyramid
Tower occupant: American Express

4 World Financial Center
Address: 250 Vesey Street
Erected: 1986
Architect: Cesar Pelli and Haines Lundberg
Roof shape: A stepped pyramid
Tower occupant: Merrill Lynch

Winter Garden between the 2 and 3 WFC
Built: 1988
Architect: Cesar Pelli and Adamson & Assocs., landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg & Assocs.

Winter Garden has 16 12-meter palm trees from the Mojave Desert. The roof of the garden is 38 m high and 60 m long.

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Cruise ship Nordic Empress leaves the port of New York for Bermuda. May 2002.

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Cruise ship Pacific Princess on the way to Bermuda, with downtown Manhattan and World Financial Center in the background. September 2002.

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The view on the World Financial Center from the Hudson River, with the World Trade Center gone. From left to right: 3 WFC (piramid roof), 4 WFC (stepped piramid roof), 2 WFC (dome), 1 WFC (cut piramid).

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The view on the World Financial Center from the Hudson River. The damage to 3 WFC is visible (above the Winter Garden).

The towers are all connected to each other either through their bases or by walkways. Two covered bridges cross West Street, connecting the Center to the World Trade Center (the North Bridge with 60 meters of clear span) and the block south of the WTC compound (the South Bridge, 67 meters).

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The view on World Financial Center from the West Side Highway on 7 October 2001.

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The view of the World Financial Center from the observatory of the now destroyed World Trade Center. The building with the dome roof is the 2 WFC, to the right is 3 WFC, and closer to Hudson River 4 WFC. The covered north bridge across the West Street is visible, connecting World Trade Center with the Winter Garden (between the 2 WFC and 3 WFC).

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