World Trade Center (1973–2001)

This airticle is aboot the World Trade Center building complex prior to the September 11 attacks. For the current buildings, see World Trade Center (2001–present).

The original World Trade Center was a muckle complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan, New York City, Unitit States. It featured the landmark Twin Towers, which opened on April 4, 1973 and were destroyed in 2001 during the September 11 attacks. At the time of their completion, the Twin Towers — the original 1 World Trade Center, at 1,368 feet (417 m); and 2 World Trade Center, at 1,362 feet (415.1 m) — were the tallest buildings in the world. Other buildings in the complex included the Marriott World Trade Center (3 WTC), 4 WTC, 5 WTC, 6 WTC, and 7 WTC. The complex was located in New York City's Financial District and contained 13,400,000 square feet (1,240,000 m²) of office space.^[4][5]

World Trade Center
The oreeginal World Trade Center in Mairch 2001. The touer on the left, wi antenna spire, wis 1 WTC. The touer on the richt was 2 WTC. Aw seiven biggins o the WTC complex are pairtially veesible. The reid granite-clad biggin left o the Twin Towers wis the oreeginal 7 World Trade Center. In the backgrund is the East River.
Record hicht
Hie-est in the warld frae 1971 tae 1973[I]
Whit cam afore	Empire State Building
Whit cam efter	Willis Tower
General information
Status	Destroyed
Location	Lawer Manhattan, New York City
Coordinates	40°42′42″N 74°00′45″W
Grundbrakkin	August 25, 1966
Biggin stairtit	1 WTC: August 1968 2 WTC: Januar 1969 3 WTC: December 1979 4, 5, an 6 WTC: 1970 7 WTC: 1983
Completit	1 WTC: December 23, 1970 2 WTC: Julie 19, 1971 3 WTC: Julie 1981 4, 5, an 6 WTC: 1975 7 WTC: Mey 1987[1]
Openin	Aprile 4, 1973
Destroyed	September 11, 2001
Awner	Port Authority o New York an New Jersey
Other information Hicht Antenna spire 1 WTC: 1,730 feet (530 m) Ruif 1 WTC: 1,368 feet (417 m) 2 WTC: 1,362 feet (415 m) 3 WTC: 250 feet (76 m) 4 and 5 WTC: 120 feet (37 m) 6 WTC: 110 feet (34 m) 7 WTC: 610 feet (190 m) Tap fluir 1 WTC: 1,350 feet (410 m) 2 WTC: 1,350 feet (410 m) Technical details Fluir coont 1 an 2 WTC: 110 fluirs 3 WTC: 22 fluirs 4 and 5 WTC: 9 fliurs 6 WTC: 8 fluirs 7 WTC: 47 fluirs Fluir aurie 1 and 2 WTC: 4,300,000 sq ft (400,000 m2) each 4, 5, an 6 WTC: 500,000 sq ft (50,000 m2) each 7 WTC: 1,868,000 sq ft (170,000 m2) Lifts/elevators 1 an 2 WTC: 99 each Design an construction Airchitect Minoru Yamasaki Emery Roth & Sons Ingineer Worthington, Skilling, Helle & Jackson,[2] Leslie E. Robertson Associates Main contractor Tishman Realty & Construction Company [3]

The core of the complex was biggit atween 1975 and 1985, with a cost of $400 million (equivalent to $2.27 billion in 2018).^[6] The World Trade Center experienced a fire on February 13, 1975, a bombing on February 26, 1993, and a bank robbery on January 14, 1998. In 1998, the Port Authority decided to privatize the World Trade Center, leasing the buildings to a private company to manage, and awarded the lease to Silverstein Properties in July 2001.

The oreeginal World Trade Center (Scots: Warld Trade Centre) wis a lairge complex o seiven biggins in Lawer Manhattan, New York Ceety, Unitit States. It featurt laundmerk twin touers, which opened on Aprile 4, 1973, an war destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, wi 7 World Trade Center collapsin later that day due tae the damage it suffered whan the twin touers collapsed that mornin. The ither biggins in the complex war severely damaged bi the collapse o the twin touers, an thair ruins war eventually demolished.

References

1. "History of the Twin Towers". Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. 1 Juin 2014. Archived frae the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
2. "Twin Towers Engineered To Withstand Jet Collision". Seattle Times. 27 Februar 1993. Archived frae the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
3. World Trade Center (1973–2001) at Emporis
4. Holusha, John (6 Januar 2002). "Commercial Property; In Office Market, a Time of Uncertainty". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 November 2008.
5. "Ford recounts details of Sept. 11". Real Estate Weekly. BNET. 27 Februar 2002. Archived frae the original on 26 Mey 2012. Retrieved 3 Januar 2009.
6. Unitit States nominal Gross Domestic Product per capita feegurs follae the Measuring Worth series supplee'd in Johnston, Louis; Williamson, Samuel H. (2017). "What Was the U.S. GDP Then?". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 28 Julie 2017. Cite has empty unkent parameter: |last-author-amp= (help) Thir are the feegurs as o 2016.