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"  Credit: AFP / Getty Images It&amp;#039;s no doubt that the new skyscraper at 1 World Trade Center is a marvel of mega-engineering, or that the view from the top is breathtaking. What was in doubt, until today, was whether the building would own the official title of tallest in the Western Hemisphere. The folks who decide such a thing are members of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Since 1 WTC reached it maximum height of 1776 feet this spring, we&amp;#039;ve been waiting for that group&amp;#039;s Height Committee to get together and decide whether or not the new World Trade Center tower was truly taller than the Willis (formerly Sears) Tower in Chicago. Their announcement came today: Yes, New York is number one.  Credit: Getty Images The issue at hand is 1 WTC&amp;#039;s 408-foot antenna that reaches up from the skydeck. Disregard that and the height of the World Trade Center drops to just 1368 feet, the height of the skydeck, which is shorter than the 1450-foot Chicago tower, seen above. It fell to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat to decide whether 1 WTC&amp;#039;s antenna was officially a &amp;quot;spire,&amp;quot; which counts as an essential part of the building and therefore contributes to its overall height, or a &amp;quot;needle,&amp;quot; which does not. To make this semantics argument even more confusing, the ruling still doesn&amp;#039;t make the World Trade Center tower the tallest manmade structure in the Western Hemisphere\u2014there the Toronto CN Tower reigns supreme. And don&amp;#039;t even get started on the Eastern Hemisphere, where Dubai&amp;#039;s Burj Khalifa remains the tallest building but other ambitious projects aim to usurp the king. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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