World Trade Center – Once Upon a Time

Name of the building: World Trade Center

Location: New York

Country: United States

Designed by: 

• Minoru Yamasaki
• Emery Roth & Sons

Completed in: 1st tower was completed in 1970 while the last one (7th) in 1987.

Opened on: 4th April 1973

Height: 417 meters (1 World Trade Center)

Floors: 110

Area covered: 4,300,000 square meters

Major materials used: Aluminum & Steel

Cost: 400 million USD

Used as: Hotel, Residential space and offices

URL: www.wtc.com

Quick Facts about World Trade Center:

• 1 World Trade Center and 2 World Trade Center or Twin Towers remained the highest buildings of the world from 1973 to 1975 until they were surpassed by Willis Towers.

• About 50,000 people used to work in different offices in World Trade Center while 200,000 people used to visit it daily.

• A 68 miles long road can be constructed with the steel which was used in the construction of the buildings.

• 19,600 miles of cable was installed in the buildings for the maintenance of 75,000 telephones.

• The buildings had its own Zip Codes i.e., 10047 & 10048 and the building received mail even after years of its destruction.

• World Trade Center claimed 60 lives during its construction.

• Before its construction, there was a tie between constructing a new tunnel, a bridge over Hudson River and a tall building. So the tall building was chosen by the city.

• World Trade Center was featured in hundreds of film, serials, video games and cartoons while there were about 40 movies which were filmed in the building.

• Fuji Bank, AON, New York Stock Exchange, Port Authority of NY & NJ, and dozens of other companies had their offices in the buildings.

• World Trade Center was destroyed in 2001 terror attacks. Right now, One World Trade Center is under construction on the same location.