The World Trade Center
The World Trade Center was a complex of seven buildings featuring the landmark twin towers each 110 stories tall, stood over 1,350 feet. Located in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The complex opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed by Terrorist during the September 11 attacks 2001. At the time of their completion, the twin towers were the tallest buildings in the world, surpassing the Empire State Building, also in Manhattan. The twin 110-story towers used a tube-frame structural design. To gain approval for the project, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey agreed to take over the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad, which became the Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH). Groundbreaking for the World Trade Center took place on August 5, 1966. The North Tower (1) was completed in December 1972 and the South Tower (2) was finished in July 1973. The cost for the construction was $400 million. The complex was located in the heart of New York City's downtown financial district and contained 13.4 million square feet. The Windows on the World restaurant was located on the 106th and 107th floors of 1 World Trade Center (the North Tower) while the Top of the World observation deck was located on the 107th floor of 2 World Trade Center (the South Tower). The World Trade Center experienced a fire on February 13, 1975, and a Terrorist bombing on February 26, 1993.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda-affiliated hijackers flew two 767 jets into the complex, one into each tower, in a coordinated terrorist attack. After burning for 56 minutes, the South Tower (2) collapsed, followed a half-hour later by the North Tower (1), with the attacks on the World Trade Center resulting in 2,753 deaths. 7 World Trade Center collapsed later in the day and the other buildings, although they did not collapse, had to be demolished because they were damaged beyond repair. The process of cleanup and recovery at the World Trade Center site took eight months.
On February 13, 1975, a three-alarm fire broke out on the 11th floor of the North Tower. Fire spread through the core to the 9th and 14th floors by igniting the insulation of telephone cables in a utility shaft that ran vertically between floors. February 26, 1993 bombing
The site is being rebuilt with five new skyscrapers and a memorial to the casualties of the attacks. As of September 2011, as of today only one skyscraper has been completed with four more expected to be completed before 2020. The first new building at the site was 7 World Trade Center, which opened in May 2006. The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC), established in November 2001 to oversee the rebuilding process, organized competitions to select a site plan and memorial design. Memory Foundations, designed by Daniel Libeskind, was selected as the master plan, which included the 1,776-foot One World Trade Center, three office towers along Church Street and a memorial.
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