One World Trade Center: Tallest Building in North America
One World Trade Center New York, Tallest Building in USA, Manhattan Skyscraper
One World Trade Center, NYC : Tallest Building in North America
1 WTC Manhattan Skyscraper, NY, USA – design by David Childs, SOM Architects
Jun 18, 2017
One World Trade Center Building
1 WTC Building in New York City Copyright
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) sued for Freedom Tower copyright infringement in a suit filed on Wednesday by a Georgia-based architect.
Jeehoon Park, AIA, has filed suit against SOM for copyright infringement and false advertising of their One World Trade Center tower design. He alleges that SOM based their design on his 1999 graduate thesis from the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture in Chicago, asserting that his thesis adviser and former SOM architectural engineer and Associate Partner Ahmad Abdelrazaq saw the work prior to the Freedom Tower conceptualization. By 2004 Abdelrazaq had left SOM. The tower design was formally unveiled in 2005.
photograph © Adrian Welch
According to the civil action file, Park’s 122-story tower design is similar to the Freedom Tower for “substantially similar exterior cross-sectional shapes…at comparable floor levels.”
A SOM spokesperson released the following statement:
One World Trade Center is arguably the highest profile project built in the world in recent memory, and these types of projects often attract people who deceptively claim ownership of the design. This lawsuit f...
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