General Information
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Building complex |
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Awards and Distinctions
| 1971 |
award winner
for registered users |
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Location
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Technical Information
There currently is no technical data available.
Chronology
| August 1966 | Site excavation begins. |
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| 5 August 1966 | Groundbreaking. |
| August 1968 | Steel erection begins. |
| December 1970 | First tenants move into One World Trade Center. |
| January 1972 | First tenants move into Two World Trade Center. |
| 4 April 1973 | World Trade Center is dedicated. |
| 26 February 1993, 12:28 | Islamic terrorists detonate a bomb in the parking basements of One World Trade Center causing 6 deaths and more than 1000 injuries; tower remains closed for one month. |
| 11 September 2001, 08:45 | A hijacked Boeing 767 by American Airlines crashes into One World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack. |
| 11 September 2001, 09:03 | Another hijacked airplane, a United Airlines Boeing 767, crashes into Two World Trade Center causing a severe explosion. |
| 11 September 2001, 09:50 | Two World Trade Center collapses. Crushes Three and Four World Trade Center. |
| 11 September 2001, 10:29 | One World Trade Center collapses. Five and Six World Trade Center are severely damaged. |
| 11 September 2001, 16:10 | Seven World Trade Center is reported to have caught fire. |
| 11 September 2001, 17:20 | Seven World Trade Center collapses after burning for seven hours. |
| 29 September 2001 | Four World Trade Center is torn down. |
| 30 May 2002, 10:29 | In an official ceremony, the last column remaining from the World Trade Center rubble is removed and the cleanup work at ground zero is formally completed. The official death toll of the destruction of the world trade center is set at 2 823 dead. The remains of 1 731 victims were never recovered. |
| 16 July 2002 | Six concepts are presented by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as well as the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site. |
Notes
Several other buildings were also damaged to various degrees around the perimeter of the World Trade Center includingOne Liberty Plazaand theWorld Financial Center.
Participants
Relevant Web Sites
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BBC News: How the World Trade Center fell
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BBC News: World Trade Disaster
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Building Conservation Technology: 11 September 2001
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CNN: Ceremony to close 'Ground Zero' cleanup (30.05.02)
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CNN: Chronology: The day after
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CNN: September 11: Chronology of terror
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CNN: Specials: Day of Terror
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CNN: Specials: Recovery
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CNN: Tod Rittenhouse: Why the World Trade Center collapsed
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CNN: What Will Replace the World Trade Center (19.11.2001)
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CNN: WTC leased to Silverstein, Westfield
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Dan Heller Photography: World Trade Center
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National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
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New York's World Trade Center: A Living Archive
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NIST and the World Trade Center
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PBS: America Rebuilds - A Year at Ground Zero
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USA Today: Catastrophic Collapse
Relevant Publications
- The 9/11 Commission Report. Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States. W.W. Norton, New York (USA), 2004, pp. 567.
- (1997): L'art de l'ingénieur. constructeur, entrepeneur, inventeur. Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France), pp. 545-547.
- (2001): Bechtel Won't Run WTC Cleanup But Project Changes Still Loom. In: Engineering News Record (17 December 2001).
- (2001): Bush Proposes $6.3 Billion for New York City, $925 Million to Rebuild Pentagon. In: Engineering News Record (18 October 2001).
- (2001): Catastrophe du World Trade Center. Les vraies raisons techniques de l'effondrement. In: Le Moniteur des Travaux Publics et du Bâtiment, n. 5104 (21 September 2001), pp. 18-21.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
10000062 - Published on:
13/10/2001 - Last updated on:
22/12/2018
