World Trade Center: Historie og 9/11 angreb

The cost for the construction was $400 million ($2,169,167,354 as of 2011). The original World Trade Center was designed by Minoru Yamasaki in the early 1960s. using a tube-frame structural design for the twin 110-story towers. In gaining 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 was completed in December 1972 and the South Tower was finished in July 1973; the two were collectively known as the Twin Towers, the two tallest buildings in Manhattan at that time. The construction project involved excavating a large amount of material, which was used to make Battery Park City on the west side of Lower Manhattan.

The World Trade Center (WTC) was a complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan in New York City that was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The site is currently being rebuilt with six new skyscrapers and a memorial to the casualties of the attacks. At the time of their completion, 1 World Trade Center and 2 World Trade Center were the tallest buildings in the world, surpassing the Empire State Building, which is also in Manhattan.