Tour du Midi vs Four World Trade Center

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The Tour du Midi (French) or Zuidertoren (Dutch), both meaning South Tower, is a 38-storey, 148 m (486 ft) skyscraper built between 1962 and 1967 in Brussels, Belgium. The tower is the tallest building in Belgium, and was the tallest in the European Economic Community when it was built until it was surpassed by Tour Montparnasse in Paris in 1972.

Tour du Midi stands adjacent to Brussels-South railway station. The building's facade was reclad in 1995-1996 with unitised glass panels using double glass solarbel silver, and it can accommodate about 2,500 office workers. It was built for the Belgian Pensions Administration, which occupies it now.

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4 World Trade Center (also known by its street address, 150 Greenwich Street) is a skyscraper that's part of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. It is situated on the southeast corner of this 16-acre (6.5 ha) World Trade Center site, where the original nine-story 4 World Trade Center stood. Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki was awarded the contract to design the 978-foot-tall (298 m) building. It houses the headquarters of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ).The building's groundbreaking took place in January 2008, and it opened to tenants and the general public on November 13, 2013. As of 2016, it's the third tallest skyscraper in the rebuilt World Trade Center, supporting One and 3 World Trade Center. However, 2 World Trade Center is expected to surpass the height of both 4 and 3 WTC upon completion. The whole floor space of the building comprises 1.8 million square feet (167,000 square meters) of office and retail space.

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