David Childs, the lead architect of the One World Trade Center skyscraper that rose from the site where the Twin Towers ...

Visionary architect David Childs, who helped redefine the New York City skyline with the design of One World Trade Center, ...

The 1,776-foot-tall (540-meter-tall) One World Trade Center, once known as the Freedom Tower, is the centerpiece of the redevelopment of ground zero, along with the memorial pools placed where the ...

But perhaps Childs’s biggest mark on the city is the 1,776-foot, 3.5 million-square-foot glass tower at 1 World Trade Center that Larry Silverstein built to replace much of the Twin Towers. “I was ...

(AP Photo/Ed Bailey, file) Architect David Childs puts his hand behind the top of the design for the Freedom Tower to be built on the World Trade Center site during an unveiling ceremony in Federal ...