World Trade Center ruled the tallest building in the US at 1,776 feet

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World Trade Center has been crowned the tallest building in the Americas, standing at a symbolic (and now official) 1,776 feet. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, an international body that determines the heights of skyscrapers, and ruled that the spire atop One World Trade is an architecturally significant feature of the building -- not an antenna. Council chairman Timothy Johnson said that the spire was clearly "the end of the architectural expression of the building," adding at a press conference today that "for us it was very clear that it was a spire and not an antenna."

The decision makes the official height of the building 1,776 feet, not 1,368 feet, which is the height of the building's roof. It also allows One World Trade to beat out Chicago's Willis Tower as the tallest in the US. Willis Tower's antenna does not count towards its official "architectural height." Internationally, the Council is now projecting that One World Trade will be the third tallest building in the world upon completion, behind the Burj Khalifa and the Makkah Royal Clock Tower Hotel in Mecca.

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