Tallest building in the world

• More than a decade after the Twin Towers were tragically toppled in the September 11 attacks, the World Trade Center can once again lay claim to having New York City's tallest building.
(Forbes)
• Completed in early 1973, the building held the record as the world's tallest structure for 25 years until the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, were built in 1998. The building itself has 110 stories, 104 elevators and encloses approximately 3.
(The Christian Science Monitor)
• Today our city has a new tallest building, and a new sense of how bright our future is.Photos: One World Trade Center becomes tallest building in New York New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo also stressed the symbolism of rebirth.
(msnbc.com)
• A steel beam labeled "1271 ft" was secured to One World Trade Center on Monday, making it the tallest building in the city — and demoting the Empire State Building to No. 2.
(New York Daily News)
• NEW YORK (Reuters) - One World Trade Center, being built at the site of the fallen twin towers, surpassed the Empire State Building on Monday as the tallest building in New York.
(Reuters)
• Construction workers carefully placed a steal beam on top of the new World Trade Center Monday, making it New York Citys tallest building.
(Voice of America)
• With its steel beams expected to rise past 1,250 feet on Monday, One World Trade Center will eclipse the Empire State Building as the tallest building in New York City on its way to becoming the Western Hemisphere's highest skyscraper.
(Wall Street Journal)
• According to the Associated Press, if the new World Trade Center's antenna is to be counted, it would make it "the tallest building in the U.S., and third tallest in the world.
(Time)
• One World Trade Center reclaimed its rightful place as the tallest building in New York today, installing two 26-foot steel interior columns which bring its total height to 1,271 feet above street level.
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• One World Trade Center is now officially the tallest building in the city. More than a decade after terrorists toppled the original World Trade Center towers, workers at the site installed a steel beam Monday that brings the height of the structure to 1,250 feet.
(NY1)