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New
York World Trade Center
Location:
New York, New York, USA
1970 (Tower One), 1972 (Tower
Two)
$400 million
1,368 feet (Tower One), 1,362 feet
(Tower Two)
110
Steel
Aluminum, steel
Skilling, Helle, Christiansen
& Robertson
Opened
in 1970, the World Trade
Center was constructed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It was
designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki.
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One World Trade Center featured Windows on the World, an
elegant restaurant with a magnificent view of New York City. Two World Trade
Center featured two observation decks, both more than 1,300 feet above the
city.
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Each tower had 104 passenger elevators, 21,800 windows, and
roughly an acre of space on each floor.
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From the observation deck on Two World Trade Center it was
possible to see 45 miles in every direction.
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Each tower swayed approximately three feet from true center
in strong wind storms.
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If all the glass used in the construction of both towers
were melted into a ribbon of glass, 20 inches wide, it would run 65 miles
long.
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passing The World Trade Center Photograph by Michael McGuire
The
complex was situated on a 16-acre site and consists of seven buildings with 12
million square feet.
All
were constructed around the five-acre Austin J. Tobin Plaza and have entrances
to the Plaza and the surrounding city streets.
The
World Trade Center was connected by a land bridge to the World Financial Center
complex located to its west and is close to the New York and American Stock
Exchanges. More than 400 firms from 25 countries were represented in the
complex.
At least 50,000
people worked at the World Trade Center and another 70,000 visited each
day.
The Center
consisted of two 110-story (1350 feet each) office towers (One and Two World
Trade Center), a 47-story office building (Seven World Trade Center), two
nine-story office buildings (Four and Five World Trade Center), an eight-story
U.S. Customhouse (Six World Trade Center), and the 22-story New York Marriott
World Trade Center Hotel (Three World Trade Center). At 110 floors, The World
Trade Center was New York's tallest building and the among tallest buildings in
the world.
1 WORLD TRADE CENTER -
NORTH TOWER
Built: 1970
Height: 110 Floors
Floor Sizes: (9 - 105) 45,000-50,000 sf
Elevators: 97 passenger, 6 freight
2 WORLD TRADE CENTER -
SOUTH TOWER
Built: 1972
Height: 110 Floors
Floor Sizes (2 - 109) 45,000 - 50,000 sf
Elevators: 97 passenger, 6 freight
4 WORLD TRADE CENTER -
SOUTHEAST PLAZA BUILDING
Built: 1977
Height: 9 Floors
Floor Sizes: (2 - 9) 84,500 sf
Elevators: 12 passenger, 1 freight
5 WORLD TRADE CENTER -
NORTHEAST PLAZA BUILDING
Built: 1972
Height: 9 Floors
Floor Sizes: (2 - 9) 108,400 sf
Elevators: 9 passenger
6 WORLD TRADE CENTER -
U.S. CUSTOMHOUSE
Built: 1975
Height: 8 Floors
Floor Sizes: (2- 8) 80,400 sf
Elevators: 8 passenger, 4 freight
7
WORLD TRADE CENTER Built:
1987 Height:570
feet Floor
Space:1,868,000 square feet The
government agencies housed at 7 World Trade Center were the United States Secret
Service, the Department of Defense, the Immigration and Naturalization Service,
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Mayor's Office of
Emergency Management, the Internal Revenue Service Regional Council (IRS), and
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Source:PANYNJ
New
York World Trade Center Today
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