General Information
Other name(s): | North Tower |
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Beginning of works: | 1966 |
Completion: | 4 April 1973 |
Status: | destroyed (11 September 2001) |
Project Type
Structure: |
Tubular System |
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Function / usage: |
Office building |
Location
Location: |
Manhattan, New York, New York, USA |
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Address: | 1 World Trade Center |
Part of: | |
Next to: |
Two World Trade Center (1973)
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Replaced by: |
National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center (2011)
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Coordinates: | 40° 42' 43.62" N 74° 0' 47.43" W |
Technical Information
Dimensions
height | 417 m | |
height to antenna tip | 526 m | |
number of floors (above ground) | 110 | |
dimensions at base | 63.4 m x 63.4 m | |
gross floor space (per floor) | 4 000 m² | |
gross floor area | ca. 418 000 m² | |
floor height | 3.65 m | |
building core | dimensions at base | 26 m x 41 m |
Quantities
structural steel | 78 000 t |
Design Loads
wind resistant to | 240 km/h |
Cost
cost of construction | United States dollar 700 000 000 |
Materials
façade |
glass
aluminum |
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floor slabs |
reinforced concrete
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exterior columns |
steel
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cross beams |
steel
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floor beams |
steel
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Chronology
December 1970 | First tenants move into One World Trade Center. |
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26 February 1993, ca. 12:28 | Islamic terrorists detonate a bomb causing 6 deaths and hundreds of injuries; one tower remains closed for one month. |
11 September 2001, 08:45 | A hijacked Boeing 767 by American Airlines crashes into the north façade of One World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack. The plane hits floors 94 through 99 and explodes causing severe fires in the building. |
11 September 2001, 09:03 | Another hijacked airplane, a United Airlines Boeing 767, crashes into the southern façade of Two World Trade Center causing a severe explosion. Floors 78 to 84 are hit directly in the impact. |
11 September 2001, 09:59 | Two World Trade Center collapses 56 minutes after impact. The collapse also crushes Three and Four World Trade Center. |
11 September 2001, 10:29 | One World Trade Center collapses 1 hour and 43 minutes after impact. Five and Six World Trade Center are severely damaged by the falling debris. |
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 in New York is set at 2 823 dead. The remains of 1 731 victims were never recovered. |
Notes
The World Trade Center towers were built to resist the impact of a Boeing 707.
Aerialist Philippe Petit walked between the two towers on a tightrope in 1974.
During the collapse of the Twin Towers, 2 830 people lost their lives including 2 270 occupants in the buildings, 157 passengers and crew on board the aircraft and 403 emergency response personnel on the ground.
Participants
- Skilling Helle Christiansen Robertson
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Leslie E. Robertson & Associates, R.L.L.P.
- Leslie Earl Robertson (structural engineer)
Relevant Web Sites
- archINFORM: World Trade Center
- BBC News: How the World Trade Center fell
- BBC News: World Trade Disaster
- Building Conservation Technology: 11 September 2001
- CNN: Ceremony to close 'Ground Zero' cleanup (30.05.02)
- CNN: Engineer finds clues in WTC wreckage
- CNN: Specials: Day of Terror
- CNN: Specials: Recovery
- CNN: Tod Rittenhouse: Why the World Trade Center collapsed
- CNN: World Trade Center: A city in towers
- Dan Heller Photography: World Trade Center
- Great Buildings Online: World Trade Center
- Le Monde: conférence UTLS: Pourquoi le World Trade Center est-il tombé? par Geoff Rooke
- LERA Project Gallery: World Trade Center
- National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
- New York's World Trade Center: A Living Archive
- NIST and the World Trade Center
- NY Times: Why Trade Center Towers Stood, Then Fell
- PBS: America Rebuilds - A Year at Ground Zero
- PBS: Building Big - World Trade Center
- Spiegel-Online: World Trade Center: Der Anschlag von 1993
- USA Today: Catastrophic Collapse
- World Trade Center (Mary Ann Sullivan)
Relevant Publications
- L'art de l'ingénieur. constructeur, entrepeneur, inventeur. Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France), pp. 545-547. (1997):
- Bechtel Won't Run WTC Cleanup But Project Changes Still Loom. In: Engineering News Record (17 December 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. (2001):
- Debris Mountain Starts To Shrink. In: Engineering News Record (1 October 2001). (2001):
- Dissecting the Collapses. In: Civil Engineering Magazine, v. 72, n. 5 (May 2002).
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20000088 - Published on:
28/10/1998 - Last updated on:
26/10/2015