Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: World Trade Center
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Preferred Title:
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World Trade Center
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Image View:
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General view of the base of the north tower, from the east
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Creator:
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Emery Roth & Sons (American architectural firm, ca. 1949-1990); Minoru Yamasaki (American architect, 1912-1986)
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Location:
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site: New York, New York, United States
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Date:
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1964-1974 (creation); 2001 (destruction)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Modernist, Modern
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Work Type 1:
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office building
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Work Type 2:
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skyscraper
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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steel; glass
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Subjects:
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architectural exteriors; business, commerce and trade
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Description:
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More significantly, this period was also marked by the development of a new structural system in which a load-bearing exterior structure acts as a rigid tubular cantilever, the most efficient solution for resisting wind loads on buildings over 70 storeys. It was first applied to reinforced-concrete structures from about 1963, but the development of the braced tubular cantilever in steel (by Myron Goldsmith and Fazlur Khan) made possible the most spectacular skyscrapers of the 1970s [including] the twin 110-storey tube towers of New York's World Trade Center (1964-1974, destroyed 2001) by Minoru Yamasaki and Emery Roth & Sons, clad in stainless steel with gothicized detailing at base and top. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Base Collection
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Identifier:
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1A1-YM-WT-D1
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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