Sentences with phrase «trade center towers»

GMAC may be the frontrunner to hold on the top spot in 2001 thanks to the loan of approximately $ 700 million it provided New York - based Silverstein Properties as part of the $ 3.2 billion lease of the 110 - floor World Trade Center towers in Manhattan.

The next morning, as I waited for my friend who lives in Manhattan, I was flipping through a book about New York and I opened the page to a beautiful picture of the two World Trade Center towers, with a large passenger plane flying overhead.

No one will forget where they were the day the planes struck the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and a remote field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

The blast and subsequent terrorist attacks turned the World Trade Center towers into a pile of rubble and ripped open half the western side of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C..

Using Lego blocks, the girl built two buildings representing the World Trade Center towers.

Determinations of insured losses take into account the destruction of the World Trade Center towers; business and personal property of tenants and their employees; workers compensation for injured workers; claims for lost business income; and the cost of establishing alternative, temporary operations at off - site locations.

J. Craig Williams notes that yesterday's federal court decision forces nine insurance companies to treat two planes hitting two World Trade Center towers as two incidents — rather than as one.

There are 57 of them in the slender building, sometimes stacked on top of another in the same shaft and reached by sky lobbies, the system used in New York's World Trade Center towers.

In his Architecture series, also begun in the 1990s, Sugimoto takes completely blurred images of iconic architectural forms, such as the World Trade Center towers and the Eiffel Tower.

The program used studios at the top of the World Trade Center towers, and was cancelled after the attacks of September 11th.

Two Boeing 767 airplanes crashed in to both World Trade Center towers, killing 2750 and spawning countless conspiracy theories.

It tells the story of famed French tightrope walker Philippe Petit, who, in August 1974, hung — somehow — a solid wire between the (at that time) almost - completed World Trade Center towers in lower Manhattan and then, for almost 45 minutes, performed the impossibly dangerous feat of walking back and forth along its length.

While his French accent was a little shaky, his footwork sure wasn't, and the photorealistic scenes we saw of him walking on a tightrope between the World Trade Center towers may induce vertigo in some viewers.

Though the story of Philippe Petit's daring tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers was already told (and told well) in James Marsh's 2008 documentary Man On Wire, the feat is getting a big, flashy update this year, courtesy of Robert Zemeckis» The Walk.

Think of Philippe Petit's crossing the World Trade Center towers on August 7, 1974, or of Robbie Knievel traversing the Grand Canyon on his bike on May 20, 1999, or of Nik Wallenda who followed Knievel on June 24, 2013.

This bodes well for «The Walk» as it already proves that Petit's story of how he prepared and performed his high - wire walk between the World Trade Center towers, which in the doc was part crime - thriller, part inspirational story, is something the Academy will go for.

Barbera admits to losing out in the battle over The Walk, the Robert Zemeckis - directed feature about Philippe Petit's high - wire walk between the World Trade Center towers in 1974 — already memorably covered in James Marsh's 2008 documentary Man on Wire.

It has been six years now since James Marsh recounted Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers in his documentary Man on Wire.

The story of Philippe Petit's astonishing high - wire walk between the still unfinished World Trade Center towers in 1974 has already been told on film in the Oscar - winning documentary Man on Wire.

One day while flipping through a magazine, he sees an advertisement for the new World Trade Center towers that are being built in New York City.

Mercury thermostats in the World Trade Center towers would have spewed mercury all over New York and the east coast.3 - 5

Not only are they more expensive to build, but more than a third of every floor in buildings as tall as the World Trade Center towers is given over to the service core.

Its mass was much more successful in absorbing the impact from the aircraft than the lightweight steel structure of the World Trade Center towers.

In sum, the crash of one jetliner killed fewer than 140 people in the Pentagon and put approximately 2.5 million square feet of office space out of service, whereas at the World Trade Center towers, the crash of two jetliners killed more than 2,200 civilians and 421 rescuers and wreaked so much collateral damage that it put about 30 million square feet of office space out of service.

All the engineering evaluations of the World Trade Center collapse I have read, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency report, take the extreme height of the World Trade Center towers for granted.

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.

Although the cores of the World Trade Center towers were built of closely spaced, massive steel columns and beams, the fire stairs themselves were encased only by gypsum wallboard attached to metal studs: two 5 / 8 - inch - thick layers of wallboard on the exterior and one on the interior.

Many died because they did not get the call to evacuate from the World Trade Center towers that were about to collapse.

Sixteen years after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers sent a «cloud» of toxic debris across Lower Manhattan, children living nearby who likely breathed in the ash and fumes are showing early signs of risk for future heart disease.

The three have noted in joint statements that «the collapse of the Trade Center towers released a cloud of poisons, including carcinogens, throughout lower Manhattan.»

BY ANDY HUMM Monuments to cataclysm — from the Vietnam War Memorial wall in Washington bearing the names of tens of thousands of American soldiers killed in that divisive US «police action» to the 9/11 Memorial waterfalls marking the site of the obliterated World Trade Center towers and the thousands who perished that day ---LSB-...]

Last week Carol Mann, an LPGA star in the»60s and»70s and winner of 38 tournaments worldwide, let loose a rant on her Facebook page, criticizing the proposed construction of an Islamic cultural center near where the World Trade Center towers were located before the 9/11 attacks.

Rauf described the center to be built two blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center towers - destroyed by terrorist - hijacked commercial jets on September 11, 2001 - as a «shared space for community activities, like a swimming pool, classrooms and a play space for children.»

Maybe two or three years from now, when all the terrorists have been rounded up and the Trade Center towers replaced with a golden statue of Mammon, the time will come to talk of politics.

On the one hand, we see non-state actors, as well as warlords and heads of state who use relatively unsophisticated means to gain their ends by targeting, terrorizing, and killing noncombatants and, as in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers or the bombing of the Madrid trains, intentionally causing lasting property damage, civilian deaths, and widespread fear.

As Johns sees it, such statements were not only unseemly in their haste — memos and family pictures from the World Trade Center towers were still drifting over Manhattan and we were ready to announce to the world what we would and would not do — but they grew out of an unattractive combination of national self - loathing and utopian pacifism.

Undoubtedly, the year is remembered by the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington D.C., in which two hijacked planes took down both World Trade Center towers and a third crashed into the U.S. Pentagon, killing almost 3,000 people.

Shortly afterward, he watched the World Trade Center towers crumble.

Another good example is Sony's app that allows you to experience walking on the rope stretched in amongst the Word Trade Center towers.

Also at 11 a.m., World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein joins over 500 union construction workers and ublic officials, business leaders and representatives from the local community at a topping out ceremony for the 1,079 - foot tall 3 World Trade Center tower, Manhattan.

In honor of the court ruling guaranteeing the constitutional right to same sex marriage, Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the lights on the World Trade center tower will be lit in rainbow colors on Sunday night.

Nowhere is surveillance more pervasive in the U.S. than Lower Manhattan, home to such landmarks as the New York Stock Exchange, the World Financial Center and, of course, Ground Zero, where the new One World Trade Center Tower is under construction.

Surprisingly, Powhida includes images of protest or commemoration within the array, for example 9/11 (2001), an image of the second plane flying towards an already burning World Trade Center tower and Central Park Iraq War Protests (2003), which depicts a crowded rally.

Members of the media tour an open unfinished floor space on the north side of the Durst Organization's newly unveiled marketing center in the One World Trade Center tower in New York during a press preview of the space, October 31, 2013.

Not exact matches

On Sept. 11, 2001, Mackey was on his way to the S&P ratings agency near the World Trade Center, close enough to the falling towers that debris rained down upon him.

The nation holds a moment of silence in memory of the time American Airlines Flight 11 struck the north tower of the World Trade Center sixteen years ago.

Without the spire, One World Trade Center would actually be shorter than the Willis Tower in Chicago, which currently wears the crown of tallest building in the U.S. at 1,451 feet, not including its own antennas.

Sixteen years ago this morning, two hijacked planes felled the sky - tipped towers of the World Trade Center.

There is a slew of other major development projects on the horizon that will need massive amounts of steel, including Silverstein Properties» 2.8 million - square - foot 2 World Trade Center and Tishman Speyer's 2.85 million - square - foot Spiral office tower in Hudson Yards.

Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history — when the second plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.