Sentences with phrase «center twin towers»

This true story recounts the daring feat of a spirited young Frenchman who walked a tightrope between the World Trade Center twin towers in 1974.

Analyses of airliner impacts became mandatory after terrorists deliberately crashed two aircraft into the World Trade Center twin towers in New York in 2001.

A plan by Islamic leaders to build a mosque and cultural center on private land two blocks from where the World Trade Center twin towers were attacked September 11, 2001 has been strongly opposed by those who say it would be an affront to the memories of those who died at ground zero that day.

In my personal opinion, the World Trade Center twin towers were brought down by controlled demolition and the Pentagon was struck by a cruise misslie of some kind.

One was some forgettable office building shaped like a spaceship, but the other two were more familiar: the Pentagon and the World Trade Center twin towers.

Not exact matches

When Mecca permits a Baptist Church within equal distance of «Muhammad Ground Zero,» then let the developer put a Muslim worship center near the twin towers.

Off to your left is a long segment of a concrete slurry wall that forms part of the late - 1960s structural excavation or «bathtub» within which most of the World Trade Center, including the twin towers, was constructed.

In this setting, the World Trade Center — notorious for its sterile, meretricious twin towers and desolate, wind - ravaged plaza raised above the surrounding streets — epitomized the post-war breakdown of American architecture.

He read about the firefighters who marched up the smoke - choked stairwells of the World Trade Center, though many knew they could die; the beloved priest killed while giving last rites as the twin towers collapsed; the passengers on hijacked planes who called their families one last time to say, «I love you.»

This video framegrab from the HBO documentary «In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01» shows New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani holding a dust mask as he moves along a street near the World Trade Center soon after the twin towers were attacked by terrorists Sept. 11, 2001.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is beginning a two - year, $ 16 million study of the twin - tower collapse that will address three pressing questions: whether current testing standards and building codes are adequate to resist catastrophic fires; whether building codes sufficiently take into account what engineers call progressive collapse, the chain reaction that leads to extremely rapid collapse (in the case of the World Trade Center towers, about 10 seconds); and how existing buildings can be made less vulnerable to terrorist attack.

The entire daytime population of the World Trade Center complex was approximately 58,000, but because the attacks occurred in the early morning, it was likely the number of occupants in the twin towers was well below that number.

On August 6th, 1974, Philippe Petit, a French high wire artist, hung a wire between the twin towers of the World Trade Center and walked it not once, not twice, but three - and - a-half times.

The film stars Joseph Gordon - Levitt as Petit, who in 1974 walked back and forth across a cable strung between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

«And with this pencil stroke, my fate was sealed,» the narration tells us, over images of Petit drawing a line between the towers as depicted in a magazine ad that he peruses while waiting to see a doctor — as if we couldn't figure out why that moment is important, in a movie about a guy who tightrope - walked between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.

«The Walk» tells the true story of a French wire walker and the twin tower World Trade Center in the mid-1970s... when he strung a wire between them, and then proceeded to walk from one tower to the other without a net more than a thousand feet in the air.

Fantastic documentary film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high wire walk between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center.

The true story of a French high - wire walker who walked between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.

One such film is the 2008 documentary «Man on Wire,» James Marsh's account of what happened the morning of Aug. 7, 1974, when French aerialist Philippe Petit wire - walked between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

The film stars Joseph - Gordon Levitt and revolves around Philippe Petit's famous 1974 illegal walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.

At the world premiere of The Walk at the New York film festival, audience reactions varied on Joseph Gordon - Levitt's portrayal of high - wire artist Philippe Petit — but most were happy to see the twin towers of the World Trade Center rise again

A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high - wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, «the artistic crime of the century.»

Most Americans know the story well, as the plane never met its intended destination, while the passengers on board were able to contact their loved ones as the flight was en route, informed that three other planes had been used as weapons of mass suicide, two of them hitting the twin towers of the World Trade Center, and a third striking the Pentagon.

Every moment of this limited series looms, and looms heavily, and in case you still don't get it, an early scene depicts «The Looming Tower's» star — Jeff Daniels as the head of an New York - based FBI counterterrorism squad — passing in front of the still - standing twin towers of the World Trade Center.

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Paul Thek; Untitled (cityscape with twin towers), 1972; Acrylic on canvas; 241.5 x 165 cm; Courtesy Watermill Center Collection and Alexander and Bonin, New York; Photograph Ruth Clark