Friday, June 6, 2008

ASSIGNMENT 1

THE WORLD TRADE CENTER

The World Trade Center was more than its signature twin towers. It is located in New York, USA. It was built between 1970-1973 by Minoru Yamasaki. He was selected Emery Roth and Sons to handled production work and the firm of Worthington, Skilling, Helle, and Jackson served as engineers. The Port Authority envisioned a project with a total of 10 million square feet of office space.
Cost for built this building is $ 1.5 billion. It is made of aluminum alloy, steel and glass. The unique to the engineering design were its core and elevator system. The twin towers were the first supertall buildings designed without any masonry. The type of this building is skyscraper. The height of this are 417 and 415 meters. The style of this building is modern.

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