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Watch as One World Trade Center Rises in an 11-Year-Long Timelapse

11 years of construction compressed into two mesmerizing minutes.
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One World Trade Center blooms like a giant coral exoskeleton in the middle of the Financial District in the new video released by EarthCam last week. "Hundreds of thousands of high definition images were captured over the past 11 years and hand-edited for this exclusive time-lapse movie," EarthCam writes in the video's description. Now open to the public, construction on the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill-designed building began in October of 2004 in the wake of the Twin Towers' collapse on September 11, 2001.

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According to PetaPixel, all the photos and the camera that captured them have been donated to the National September 11 Memorial Museum. “Dedicating the past 13 years to providing technology to create this time-lapse is our way of honoring the victims of 9/11,” said Brian Cury, EarthCam CEO & Founder. EarthCam is a company that gathers content from webcams all over the world. “I hope it serves as a way to recognize that for the 10 years of construction, there was constant progress made to rebuild these important 16 acres of America.”

Watch One World Trade Center rise in the timelapse below:

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