MALO DROUINEAU 4e3 

THE FREEDOM TOWER 

 The Freedom tower is located in New York , in lower Manhattan, it's in the financial distcrict next to the world trade center memorial, which was set up on the place of the old towers destructed the eleventh of september 2001 .It's surrounded by four steets, to the west by West street, to the north by Vesey street, to the South by Fulton street and to the east by Washington street. In front of the tower we can see Staten Island where is the Statue of Liberty . It's the tallest skyscraper of the western hemisphere .It ranks sixth in the world's tallest towers in the world , behind Burj Khalifa in Dubaï, Shanghai Tower,... It's 541 meters tall (to compare to the eiffel tower which is only 324 meters tall) and has 104 floors . This tower was built to replace the twins towers which where distroyed by a plane terrorist attack. The beginning of the construction started in april 2006 , in 2012 it's became the tallest structure in New York , and it exceeds now the Empire State building. The work of the Freedom tower was completed in 2014. This construction lasted eight years . The exterior cladding is composed of 305000 square meters of glass. The constuction required 48000 tons of steel and 200000 tons of concrete. The total area of occupency is 241500 square meters . The first nineteen floors costitute pillar of the tower and is reinforced to resist explosions . The freedom tower is mainly composed of offices, nevertheless tourists can go and have a look to the panorama on the 102nd floor , we can also find a restaurant on the 100th and 101st floors . On the 102nd floor we can see all Manhattan up to central park and the cars and the people look like ants . I have been there with all my family last year and this tower is very impressive .