Sentences with phrase «twin towers built»

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The building is rising at the northwest corner of the site where the twin towers were destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

From the stairs that led folks up to twin buildings collapsing on a morning where both towers were not even close to normal capacity.

There was and is a mosque from before the twin towers were built apparently much closer to the site for park 51.

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.

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.

Cedar & Washington Associates sought to recoup costs associated with cleaning up asbestos, fiberglass and other particles during the renovation of a 12 - story apartment building near the site in lower Manhattan where the twin towers were destroyed.

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.

But, more significantly, The Walk is a movie built around a final sequence in which the French acrobat Philippe Petit walks a wire strung between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York.

The 1,454 - foot Sears Tower remained the world's tallest building for 23 years, when it was surpassed by the 1,483 - foot tall Petronas Twin Towers in the Malaysian capital city Kuala Lumpur, although there is some debate (mostly sparked by people who live in Chicago!)

The main street, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, starts at the imposing Porta Reale, runs past the twin towered Cathedral, and is stuffed full of the town's celebrated buildings.

The 1926 Colony Hotel & Cabana Club calls to mind the romantic Flagler era of Florida Mediterranean architecture: three bright yellow stories topped by twin domed towers that echo the color of the historic building's striped awnings.

Originally built between 1899 and 1902, under the patronage of princess Clotilde of Saxe - Coburg and Gotha, by Hungarian - German architect Kálmán Giergl, both the Matild and its sister building, the Klotild Palace, feature large copies of the crown of the archduke atop their twin towers.

From these side you can enjoy the view of the Twin Towers, the steeples of the San Pietro church, the Tower Of Escape and several other historic buildings.

It retains the same old swordplay and prefers to give the Dex built bleeders a little extra, and the same to the tanks who wield Twin Dragon Tower Shields.

This time, many of the images begin with towering architectonic structures, perhaps reminding us - with the title «Torn Building Towers» - of The Twin Towers of 9/11.

[3] Sixteen percent said that it was either very likely or somewhat likely that «the collapse of the twin towers in New York was aided by explosives secretly planted in the two buildings.»

Each proposal includes unusual building forms; United Architects deemed its design a cathedral - like «veil» that protects the twin tower footprints.