7 World Trade Center (2001-2005, projected)
The first building to be rebuilt near Ground Zero will be 7 World Trade Center, a mid-size, 1.7 million square-foot glass building that Childs designed for Larry Silverstein. The original building was a 47-story, beige slab that acted as a barricade across Greenwich Street, cutting off traffic and blocking light from the World Trade Center site. One of the city's primary rebuilding goals was to replace the original street grid that had been dislocated when the World Trade Center was built. Childs, therefore, designed a building with a more slender silhouette that will create an "view corridor" down Greenwich Street and link the Financial District to Tribeca for the first time.

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