These buildings are damn hypnotizing, like I wonder if 9/11 never happened if I’d be so infatuated with these things, but they were such cool structures. The minimalism of their design is so sleek and cool
I remember not knowing what the buildings were when the planes hit but shocked at the size of them from the live shots. It wasn’t until later I realized I had seen them many times in movies like Home Alone 2 and Die Hard With a Vengeance.
I totally get it, It's like if the Titanic never sank would we still be interested in it? The towers were impressive as hell but in all reality if 9/11 never happened there wouldn't be so much interest or infatuation with them. I had no knowledge of the Twin Towers before the attack but afterwards it was like i couldn't get enough of them i wanted to learn everything i could about them and just became so fascinated with them.
@yesitssarahbby17 The Twins were quite a bit more iconic than the Titanic for the simple reason they were global icons and loved before they were destroyed, and also they were purposely attacked rather than destroyed accidentally. The terrorists chose and wanted these building gone for a reason. That's why they were continously plotted against and targeted until they were ultimately taken down on 9/11.
@@jflexys5114 Oh yeah. That's also why they were prominently featured in many movies, TV shows, and what not back in the day. But even then, you never do truly appreciate what you had, until it's gone. That or took it for granted, with thinking you'd never actually lose it until you truly did too.
Facts. They defined and dominated the skyline of New York while everything around them perfectly complimented them. Lower Manhatten hasn't been the same without them since
The tv antenna on top of tower 1 wasn’t added till around 1978 and it was never officially included in the tower’s height since it wasn’t part of the original building. Also the roof of tower 1 was 6’ taller than the roof of tower 2. The reason for this was because the port authority had a cafeteria for their employees on around the 43 floor and the ceiling was taller for this floor. In some pictures it is possible to tell that tower 1 is slightly taller. Great video!
Also they called it the “bathtub” because it kept the waters of the Hudson River out. Not trying to be a know it all but I’ve been obsessed with these buildings for 30 years and have read everything there is about them haha
Thank you for NOT including 9/11 images. I loved working there. Still miss them and like many other people, want them back. Donald Trump had a model of them built and hired Kenneth Gardner to do it.
I happen to have an old Guiness book of world records back in 2001. I can't remember the exact year but it had to be early 70's because the twin towers were on the cover. It was one of the books in the bathroom you read while dropping a deuce. I must of read the section about the twin towers for several days after the attacks. It was of course about them being the tallest structures in the world, with pictures of them being built, and finished, with the North Tower not having it's antenna yet.
@@seshwondo376 I haven't seen that book since 2002. It was in decent condition back then, the cover had slight decolorization like sun damage, but all in all it was cool to read the different records set back then.
It got the world record for the tallest twin towers in the world from 1971-1973 and It had probably the most durable internal structure for most buildings at the time. It only collapsed because the jet fuel was so hot it burnt through the steel structure and how big the planes were. Both buildings burnt for almost an hour. also im first
I’m actually gonna be tackling something similar to this idea in my alternate history World Trade Center S&Box map in the future once I’ve finished the historically accurate pre 9/11 versions. However in my take both towers remain standing after both impacts, and are repaired in the span of a decade after the event with a 9/11 memorial being built in front of the North Tower and the Marriott.
the bathtub was needed because they excavated down to bedrock but then the water flow in from the hudson river, so the bathtub purpose was to keep water out from all sides. And the twintowers also had an automatic window washing system, thats also the reason why they were so narrow, so nobody actually had to wash the windows.
The Twin Towers windows were spectacular! Minoru Yamasaki had wide columns between the windows to avoid giving people the feeling that they could fall out. What's there now should NEVER have been built There is nothing appealing or good about it. It has way too many windows.
Do a video of Yamasakis other buildings . They were all gorgeous buildings. I lived in Tulsa for a while and drove past the BOK building, never knowing he built it. From a brief glance it looks exactly like one of the twin towers except it is about 1/4 smaller. City folks out there, check out his work. You may even live near one of this amazing architects buildings and not even know it: Minoru Yamasaki.
Can you find that video, where someone is in between the towers of World Trade Center 5 and World Trade Center 6. In the plaza where they are looking up at the building. Then they walk (right) away from the plaza, following the group of fire fighters who then walk (left) into the north tower.
i wonder if the architect was still alive during 9/11 and years after would he would've felt some type of guilt of what happen to the buildings and all the deaths on that day
Where is there a blue print showing the layout of the horizontal beams in the core? Was it the same on every level? The elevator shafts were not all the same height. Did the thickness of the horizontal beams vary down the structures? So many obvious questions have not been mentioned about the Twin Towers Affair.
@@psikeyhackr6914 Those blueprints exist and my guess is they are at least in the national library. Some original material has been lost as it was stored in the towers themselves. Thickness of the horizontal beams did vary along the height, just like the walls of the outer box columns. Upper floors had them at quarter inch thickness. Basements had like four inches thick ones.
@@lajoswinkler There are over 100 buildings around the world that are more than 300 meters tall. This kind of information had to be figured out for every one of them. The NCSTAR1 report by the NIST on the Twin Towers is 10,000 pages and cost $16 million. I downloaded it and burned it to DVD in 2007. You can believe that I have not searched if you want to, and communicated with other people who have searched. There were horizontal beams on each level in the core. YOU try finding any data on those beams. A PhD already told me that he could not. YOU DO IT! The Eiffel Tower 🗼 is 130 years old. Why is it shaped like that? Why shouldn't it be easy to find the distribution of steel and concrete data on every very tall structure? You are of course free to tell us When, Where and Who discussed that data.
seeing as japanese established willingness to commit kamikaze missions, and the buildings were designed by a japanese team, that's another clue that 9/11 was an inside job.
But like what about building 7, man? It like barely even had a scratch and maybe a few office fires, and down it went and they like even let it slip they were going to "pull it". Thats a fact because someone in an interview said once they heard someone say that the firefighters said "pull it".
Building 7 had a huge fucking gash in it caused by the debris from the North Tower, (the popular videos of the whole building intact collapsing is only one side of it you can find other videos and pictures showing the opposite side of it where all the damage was.) The debris also caused an uncontrollable fire. Firefighters knew it was basically screwed and likely to collapse so they "pulled it" which means abandon all hope and evacuate all first responders.
Building 7 certainly had more than a scratch and a few office fires. It got hit with a lot of debris from the falling North Tower causing severe structural damage on the south side and ignited large office fires on multiple floors throughout the building that burned uncontrolled for about 7hrs. The firefighters evacuated the area because they knew it was going to collapse from the damage and fires. When they said “pull it”, they were talking about the firefighting operation.
@@tonyboots2958 My secret to being a convincing tinfoil 9/11 nutter, notice how I use "like" liberally but not excessively and I rely exclusively on hearsay and faulty logic to back up all my claims.
those buildings made the skyline what it was time mark 2:47 shows a small plane with smoke to the back crazy to see that I remember being right infront of the twin towers jan 2001
You should really do more research before you post these videos. I see you're making large videos nearly every day and it's understandable how such overproduction leads to loss in factual quality. Twin towers would not be obsolete today. Their window area was quite large for the time of design, and today it would mean they are losing less heat through glass. Nothing obsolete about that. In other video you criticized the open floorplan as obsolete, which is also a mistake. Open floorplan means 100 % freedom of arranging space by using drywalls wherever one wants.
These buildings are damn hypnotizing, like I wonder if 9/11 never happened if I’d be so infatuated with these things, but they were such cool structures. The minimalism of their design is so sleek and cool
I remember not knowing what the buildings were when the planes hit but shocked at the size of them from the live shots. It wasn’t until later I realized I had seen them many times in movies like Home Alone 2 and Die Hard With a Vengeance.
I totally get it, It's like if the Titanic never sank would we still be interested in it? The towers were impressive as hell but in all reality if 9/11 never happened there wouldn't be so much interest or infatuation with them. I had no knowledge of the Twin Towers before the attack but afterwards it was like i couldn't get enough of them i wanted to learn everything i could about them and just became so fascinated with them.
@yesitssarahbby17 The Twins were quite a bit more iconic than the Titanic for the simple reason they were global icons and loved before they were destroyed, and also they were purposely attacked rather than destroyed accidentally. The terrorists chose and wanted these building gone for a reason. That's why they were continously plotted against and targeted until they were ultimately taken down on 9/11.
@@jflexys5114 Oh yeah. That's also why they were prominently featured in many movies, TV shows, and what not back in the day. But even then, you never do truly appreciate what you had, until it's gone. That or took it for granted, with thinking you'd never actually lose it until you truly did too.
@@jflexys5114 really
The size of the twin towers was incredible. To think each floor of one of them was almost a square acre in size is astounding.
North Tower was 1368 feet by 208 feet wide.The South Tower was 1362 by 208 feet wide.
Greatest buildings to ever to touch the earth
Facts. They defined and dominated the skyline of New York while everything around them perfectly complimented them. Lower Manhatten hasn't been the same without them since
yes
I'm fascinated by the buildings. But they had huge design flaws which cost thousands of lives.
@@bL3dbL4kDesign Flaws? How so?
@@bL3dbL4khow could they predict that some terrorist were going to fly planes into them?
The tv antenna on top of tower 1 wasn’t added till around 1978 and it was never officially included in the tower’s height since it wasn’t part of the original building. Also the roof of tower 1 was 6’ taller than the roof of tower 2. The reason for this was because the port authority had a cafeteria for their employees on around the 43 floor and the ceiling was taller for this floor. In some pictures it is possible to tell that tower 1 is slightly taller. Great video!
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the 360 ft antenna on the north tower was actually installed in May 1979
@@robroy6374I was close lol
yes@@buckeyfan7623
Yes. It's wonderful to read words from someone who is accurate.
They knocked out Manhattans 2 front teeth from the skyline.
Fun fact: Battery Park was built up from the excavation of the towers.
I liked how during the construction, a french tightrope walker organised an elaborate scheme to walk between the towers from roof to roof.
Phillipe Petit the walk 1974
Big nads
Also they called it the “bathtub” because it kept the waters of the Hudson River out. Not trying to be a know it all but I’ve been obsessed with these buildings for 30 years and have read everything there is about them haha
Thank you for NOT including 9/11 images. I loved working there. Still miss them and like many other people, want them back. Donald Trump had a model of them built and hired Kenneth Gardner to do it.
5:53 they would be obsolete, but iconic, much like the Empire State Building
The north tower was 6 feet taller than the south tower even without the TV tower. One of the floors is 6 feet taller.
I happen to have an old Guiness book of world records back in 2001. I can't remember the exact year but it had to be early 70's because the twin towers were on the cover. It was one of the books in the bathroom you read while dropping a deuce. I must of read the section about the twin towers for several days after the attacks. It was of course about them being the tallest structures in the world, with pictures of them being built, and finished, with the North Tower not having it's antenna yet.
That’s an incredible collectors item if you still have it, I’d be in th bathroom for hours.
@@seshwondo376 I haven't seen that book since 2002. It was in decent condition back then, the cover had slight decolorization like sun damage, but all in all it was cool to read the different records set back then.
The most notorious building in the world for years. Unbelievable brutal end
It got the world record for the tallest twin towers in the world from 1971-1973
and It had probably the most durable internal structure for most buildings at the time.
It only collapsed because the jet fuel was so hot it burnt through the steel structure and how big the planes were. Both buildings burnt for almost an hour.
also im first
that makes me second
your videos are so interesting ive watched so many of them recently
2nd! i've watched all your videos so happy to be this early. thank you and congrats!
I always found these buildings interesting, thanks for the video 👍
7:36 Still calling the VISA Hotel huh? Looks like VISTA to me!
9/11 it was a sad 😞 day in America
Never forget
Forget building 7
Drinking game
Take a drink every time he says “twin towers”
I’m actually gonna be tackling something similar to this idea in my alternate history World Trade Center S&Box map in the future once I’ve finished the historically accurate pre 9/11 versions.
However in my take both towers remain standing after both impacts, and are repaired in the span of a decade after the event with a 9/11 memorial being built in front of the North Tower and the Marriott.
the bathtub was needed because they excavated down to bedrock but then the water flow in from the hudson river, so the bathtub purpose was to keep water out from all sides. And the twintowers also had an automatic window washing system, thats also the reason why they were so narrow, so nobody actually had to wash the windows.
Can you make a video about why it took so long before wtc 7 was finished?
I bet the people who worked in Radio Row were pretty pissed at the time.
The Twin Towers windows were spectacular! Minoru Yamasaki had wide columns between the windows to avoid giving people the feeling that they could fall out. What's there now should NEVER have been built There is nothing appealing or good about it. It has way too many windows.
why am i so Obsessed with skyscrapers!!
I think we all us kids back then lost our innocence that day. The world was a scary place, and we had to face it
Do a video of Yamasakis other buildings . They were all gorgeous buildings. I lived in Tulsa for a while and drove past the BOK building, never knowing he built it. From a brief glance it looks exactly like one of the twin towers except it is about 1/4 smaller.
City folks out there, check out his work. You may even live near one of this amazing architects buildings and not even know it: Minoru Yamasaki.
I was at the top of the south tower in November 1979😊
2:40 is that a plane like no joke? Look at the tower on the right the smoke look
looks like a crop duster
@@stevusbeefus oh ah never mind I get it I thought you were saying I was rude sorry
still looks like a plane to me lol@@YoboyLandon999
I believe that by 2001, airplanes were also bigger than they were in the 1960s.
Could you do a video on “what if 9/11 happened in 2011”? That would be an interesting video
Pls
There's a new apartment complex in Montreal that kind of reminds me of the WTC and Patronas Tower
Can you find that video, where someone is in between the towers of World Trade Center 5 and World Trade Center 6. In the plaza where they are looking up at the building.
Then they walk (right) away from the plaza, following the group of fire fighters who then walk (left) into the north tower.
the reason 1 WTC was a little taller is because some of the ceilings were higher
2:48 Bruh🥶
In 5 years they will have been down as long as they were standing
I like their design
The main upright columns from the base of tower remind of tuning forks 😀
Minimalism done right. The details reveal so much more
0:46 - New York CITY governor Thomas Dewey?
i think the twin towers look timeless with thr style they had
Rip 🪦 twin towers
You doing alright?
i wonder if the architect was still alive during 9/11 and years after would he would've felt some type of guilt of what happen to the buildings and all the deaths on that day
So, I’m too lazy to google. What do people who “trade” do?
It sounds like alot of the offices were banking companies.
Well that was the financial district
It started construction in 1960 and finished in 1985 and the north tower is taller cause it is 6 ft taller than the south.
Where did you get 1985 from?
How do you build a couple of 1430 ft buildings, including the 6 basement levels, without figuring out how to distribute the steel?
Where is that data?
Where is there a blue print showing the layout of the horizontal beams in the core? Was it the same on every level? The elevator shafts were not all the same height. Did the thickness of the horizontal beams vary down the structures? So many obvious questions have not been mentioned about the Twin Towers Affair.
Where did you get the idea nobody figured that out? What you wrote makes zero sense. It was calculated by the structural engineers.
@@psikeyhackr6914 Those blueprints exist and my guess is they are at least in the national library. Some original material has been lost as it was stored in the towers themselves.
Thickness of the horizontal beams did vary along the height, just like the walls of the outer box columns. Upper floors had them at quarter inch thickness. Basements had like four inches thick ones.
@@lajoswinkler
There are over 100 buildings around the world that are more than 300 meters tall. This kind of information had to be figured out for every one of them.
The NCSTAR1 report by the NIST on the Twin Towers is 10,000 pages and cost $16 million. I downloaded it and burned it to DVD in 2007.
You can believe that I have not searched if you want to, and communicated with other people who have searched.
There were horizontal beams on each level in the core.
YOU try finding any data on those beams. A PhD already told me that he could not.
YOU DO IT! The Eiffel Tower 🗼 is 130 years old. Why is it shaped like that? Why shouldn't it be easy to find the distribution of steel and concrete data on every very tall structure?
You are of course free to tell us When, Where and Who discussed that data.
hi
They were kinda boring but so majestic you know?
seeing as japanese established willingness to commit kamikaze missions, and the buildings were designed by a japanese team, that's another clue that 9/11 was an inside job.
Por culpa de George w bush ya no están las torres gemelas
But like what about building 7, man? It like barely even had a scratch and maybe a few office fires, and down it went and they like even let it slip they were going to "pull it". Thats a fact because someone in an interview said once they heard someone say that the firefighters said "pull it".
Larry Silverstein
Building 7 had a huge fucking gash in it caused by the debris from the North Tower, (the popular videos of the whole building intact collapsing is only one side of it you can find other videos and pictures showing the opposite side of it where all the damage was.) The debris also caused an uncontrollable fire. Firefighters knew it was basically screwed and likely to collapse so they "pulled it" which means abandon all hope and evacuate all first responders.
Building 7 certainly had more than a scratch and a few office fires. It got hit with a lot of debris from the falling North Tower causing severe structural damage on the south side and ignited large office fires on multiple floors throughout the building that burned uncontrolled for about 7hrs. The firefighters evacuated the area because they knew it was going to collapse from the damage and fires. When they said “pull it”, they were talking about the firefighting operation.
Chill, guys. I was just pretending to be a 9/11 truth nutter. I guess i did a pretty good job. I actually used to be one years ago. I'm still ashamed.
@@tonyboots2958 My secret to being a convincing tinfoil 9/11 nutter, notice how I use "like" liberally but not excessively and I rely exclusively on hearsay and faulty logic to back up all my claims.
Not so fun fact: the plane that crashed in one of the towers was american airlines flight 11
What about what really happen to world trade 7. Because it also collapsed.
They bulldozed a whole thriving town for this- maybe they should have left well alone. Karma always wins 🤷♀️
5:02 I'd say honestly rebuilding these awesome buildings is more important than the trauma of the parents of the 9/11 victims
What a distasteful thing to say
@@michawee Doesn't every opinion have the right to be expressed? What's freedom of speech if you can't express certain opinions
@@oufukubinta He didn't say you don't have a right to express such opinion. He said it's a distasteful thing to say. Learn to read.
@@oufukubintayou dont care, you live in japan
@@isabelle_patatoiide No I just like Japan. I live in Australia
those buildings made the skyline what it was time mark 2:47 shows a small plane with smoke to the back crazy to see that I remember being right infront of the twin towers jan 2001
You should really do more research before you post these videos. I see you're making large videos nearly every day and it's understandable how such overproduction leads to loss in factual quality.
Twin towers would not be obsolete today. Their window area was quite large for the time of design, and today it would mean they are losing less heat through glass. Nothing obsolete about that.
In other video you criticized the open floorplan as obsolete, which is also a mistake. Open floorplan means 100 % freedom of arranging space by using drywalls wherever one wants.
Por culpa de George w bush ya no están las torres gemelas