WTC design significant in many ways

THE centrepiece of the reconstructed World Trade Center area features a gigantic spire, rising 1,776 feet high. This impressive piece of architecture was created in close collaboration with families of the victims of 9/11.

The spire is the brainchild of German-born designer Daniel Libeskind, whose family emigrated to New York from post-war Germany in 1959.

The figure 1776 is highly significant, marking the date that France, standing alongside its Continental Army allies, accepted the surrender of Britain at Yorktown, the year America first declared its independence.