Twin towers, 110 stories high, world’s tallest (Apr, 1964)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Apr, 1964
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Apr, 1964
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Twin towers, 110 stories high, world’s tallest
Two 1,350-foot buildings, planned for New York City’s World Trade Center, will top the Empire State Building by 100 feet, not counting its TV antenna. Each of the 110-story towers will have twice the office space of the Pan Am Building’s 2.4 million square feet, now the world’s most spacious.
The two towers, a plaza, and smaller buildings will occupy 16 acres in downtown Manhattan.
Construction will cost the Port of New York Authority $350 million. Minoru Yamasaki, who designed the Science Pavilion at the Seattle World’s Fair, and Emory Roth & Sons are the architects.
It was an amazing project. Although, I don’t recall that construction started until the early 70s? I had no idea it was so fully conceived by 1964.
Comment by Steve — November 28, 2008 @ 7:36 pm
> It was an amazing project. Although, I don’t recall that construction started until the early 70s?
Here’s the documentary film of building the WTC:
http://video.google.com/videop.....3682639810
Comment by pp81 — November 30, 2008 @ 5:17 am
It would be interesting to do like the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, and simply rebuild the World Trade Center. There it is, like al Qaeda never happened. Ow, would that frost Moslem ears!
Comment by Baron Waste — December 1, 2008 @ 4:14 am
What information do you have if any on consruction that was done in July of 1964?
Comment by Jerry Harrison — November 13, 2009 @ 11:09 pm