Video: Watch the rise of 1 World Trade Center in two compelling minutes
With the One World Observatory set to open to the public Friday, EarthCam has released a time lapse, set against stirring orchestral music, that shows how the newest member of Manhattan’s skyline has risen towards the sky over the last decade.

With the One World Observatory set to open to the public Friday, EarthCam has released a time lapse, set against stirring orchestral music, that shows how the newest member of Manhattan’s skyline has risen towards the sky over the last decade.
The two-minute video shows 11 years of construction, from October 2004 to the skyscraper’s completion on Memorial Day 2015. Hundreds of thousands of high definition images were captured and hand-edited for this movie, according to the description on YouTube.