[Guiltyspark]

Well I just got kicked over here from the 1WTC forum (I did not know this had its own forum) but there is now no way you can call this a spire. It is an antenna.

The CTBUH ranks the height of buildings using three different methods:

1. Height to architectural top of the building. This is the main criterion under which the CTBUH ranks the height of buildings. Heights are measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the top of the building, inclusive of spires but excluding items such as flag poles or antennae.
2. To highest occupied floor: Height to the floor of the highest occupied floor of the building.
3. To tip of spire/antenna: Height to the tip of spire, pinnacle, antenna, mast or flag pole.

This building is not the nations tallest. Soon it will not even be New Yorks tallest. That is all there is to it.