One World Trade Center is a fitting tribute to 9/11 victims, John Riordan reports from New York

The proposed Freedom Tower at the former World Trade Centre site, redesigned to address security concerns, will lose the distinctive asymmetrical shape envisioned in earlier plans but will be the world’s strongest and safest high-rise building, officials said today.

A NEW design for what will be the world’s tallest building has been unveiled in New York showing a structure with a gracefully sloping spire rising 1,776 feet.

A new design for the Freedom Tower at the World Trade Centre has been unveiled in New York showing a structure with a gracefully sloping spire rising 1,776 feet.

Eight competing designs for a memorial to the nearly-3,000 victims of September 11 terror attacks – including reflecting pools, walls of names and a tomb for the unidentified – were unveiled as the rebuilding of New York’s World Trade Centre entered a delicate new phase.