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This Is the Stunning Time-Lapse Video of the Freedom Tower’s Construction

Sep. 11, 2012 7:59am Billy Hallowell

EarthCam Releases 11th Anniversary, Time Lapse One World Trade Center Video

Photo Credit: YouTube

On Monday, TheBlaze brought you a status update on the World Trade Center terror attack site. And, this morning, we presented some incredible memorial pictures of the beams of light that are being used to remember the lives that were lost 11 years ago.

Also in an effort to commemorate the anniversary of the tragedy, EarthCam, a live web cam company, released a fascinating time-lapse video that depicts the rise of One World Trade Center (also known as the Freedom Tower).

The clip, which lasts just one minute and 22 seconds, shows the building’s construction from start to near-finish. The video footage used to create the time-lapse was captured on multiple cameras between February 2010 and September 2012.

In the end, the clip showcases a transformed New York City skyline — the likes of one that hasn’t been seen since before the horrific attacks on September 11, 2001.

Photo Credit: YouTube

Previously, in April, TheBlaze shared an incomplete version of this video, also captured by EarthCam. This special, anniversary version, though, provides a more in-depth view that highlights how profoundly the new building is impacting the city’s skyline.

One World Trade Center will inevitably reach a symbolic 1,776 feet and is scheduled to open for business and tenants in 2014.

Watch the stunning time-lapse video of the Freedom Tower’s construction, below:

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Comments (32)

JTX
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:45pm
It should NOT have taken over 10 years to get to this point folks. The empire state building was completed in the 1800s in 365 days. This is a result of UNION and NY political bickering. These two buildings should have been rebuilt in 2 years time.

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ArchStudent
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 5:49pm
13 years to get it built… this is what happens when unions and the gov’t work together to get things done

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GoodStuff
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 4:41pm
Unions suck.

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Daddymac10
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:24pm
Because of the unions, it take forever to get something done in America…

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KeithOlberdink
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:32pm
Thank you government regulation and bureaucracy….This damn thing should have been built and done 10 years ago.

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Mr Sanders
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:58am
10+ years to get to this point – we ought to be ashamed of ourselves?!

It took 18 months to top out the Empire State, and it survived a B17 strike! A testament to the construction methods of the day! And, to top it off, it was built in the worst peace-time era of the 20th century, the great depression. Whom honor’s work, a good Day’s work anymore?

We will never forget them who died that day, the responders, normal everyday people that helped selflessly, the citizens that gave their lives to take a plane to stop the chain of events, where we were that day, and the thousands whom gave & give their lives each day somewhere out there standing the wall for US – thank you!! And warriors, wherever you may be this Day, know you are in our prayers.

May we whole-heartedly invite God to be with US. We will not forget.

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- Stratosaurus
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 5:01pm
  Actually, the aircraft that struck the Empire State Building on 28 July 45 was a B-25 medium bomber, which was much smaller than a -17, and carried much less fuel. There were still casualties, but because steel-frame skyscraper construction was relatively new (less than 25 years at the time construction started), I would speculate that the Empire State Building was over-designed somewhat. By the 70s, refinements in steel-frame building construction had advanced to where less steel, but of higher tensile strength, was required. In addition, the WTC was built with an entirely different design without as much structural steel in the walls as the ESB.
  
  Here’s a URL for the aircraft strike in ’45:
  
  http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/q0311.shtml
  
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RayOne
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:22am
It was a wake up call, how appropriate that the DNC denies GOD 3 times from the Charlotte Convention Center.
I feel a strange wind blowing.

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- Cemetery
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:30am
  Not a very impressive time lapse video considering most of it there was no production at all and it still isn’t finished eleven years later.
  
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- edcoil
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:49am
  Pretty silly to have a construction time lapse on something far from done.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:20am
  I agree .. and they were denying Israel at the same time .. THREE times … God and Israel .. and then they booed when it was decided (mind you against the REAL vote) … who are these people? They are not people I know.
  
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U.N.hater
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:45am
LOL freedom towers. Yet china is rent’ing out most of it lmao freedom towers. I really hate what this country has become. This is not my america!

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Tickdog
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:23am
wow… no time lapse video of the mosque being built there?

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JACKTHETOAD
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:20am
Can’t they go any faster?

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- Halloween
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:18pm
  With the unions and there laziness compounded by burdensome government over regulation, this is as fast as they can go.
  
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RightThinking1
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:13am
Note to Blaze copy writers: Use the word “Stunning” less often.

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randy
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:08am
No…….. What’s stunning is they have taken 11 years to get as far as they have with it.

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MrC_5150
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:05am
3.8 billion? That’s the cost of the Petronis Towers and Taipei 101 combined. And then some!

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Akridgerunner
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:28am
The “one world trade center” moniker has go to go… I’m sure Obama’s GSA agreed to rent a ton of office space only if they would give it that name.

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HappyHaloHousewife
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:24am
How soon people forget.

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- ltb
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:34am
  Forget what?
  
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nobull14
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:23am
Considering they built the empire state building in 9 month ? and here we are 11years later and New York government morons are still fighting about how its going to be built or finished ?. Go’s to show how out of control any government in our country really is .

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- mikenleeds
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:13am
  i love the building but it s took way to long to replace them plus the price tag of 3.8.billion is insane , am sure the corrupt unions and unions bosses got even richer off of this deal at tax payers expense
  
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OMGisGreat
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:19am
AWESOME… too bad it took so long to do!

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Gonzo
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:08am
Isaiah 9:10
The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with dressed stone; the fig trees have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”
Prepare, more to follow.

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- PA PATRIOT
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:30am
  Want to change Washington,
  Then change the ways of Washington
  
  2 Chronicles 7:14
  New King James Version (NKJV)
  
  if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
  
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- marthasusan40
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:41am
  The Harbinger, Jonathan Cahn……………a must read for all Americans who are interested in saving our Country.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:46am
  You get it PA. I wonder how many others do?
  
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- conservativemom99
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:40am
  amen.
  
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- Doni1983
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:59am
  I have been thinking about The Harbinger all morning…I fear we as a nation have gone too far :(
  
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- momrules
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:59am
  The Harbinger is a book that should be read by all. It led me back to Isiah and put the 9-11 attack in Biblical perspective.
  
  Pa…….We, as a nation, could be saved today if we turned back to God but do you really see that happening? When God is removed from the Democrat platform and ALL of America is not outraged, fearful and on their knees praying I fear it is too late.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:22pm
  It’s not too late Mom. Just like to prodigal son, God would take us back at any time. I don’t see it happening though. So, sadly I have to agree with you.
  
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