The “twin towers” of the World Trade Center were developed as a project by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and were designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki, an American architect who along with Edward Durell Stone was considered one of the masters of the New Formalist subcategory of Modernist architecture. The 110-story structures were designed as framed tube structures and featured open floor plans free of interior columns or structural walls. Extensive use of prefabricated components sped up the construction of the towers, which were completed in a period of approximately two-and-a-half years. Once a dominant presence over the lower Manhattan skyline, the towers were destroyed in a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.

The “twin towers” of the World Trade Center were developed as a project by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and were designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki, an American architect who along with Edward Durell Stone was considered one of the masters of the New Formalist subcategory of Modernist architecture. The 110-story structures were designed as framed tube structures and featured open floor plans free of interior columns or structural walls. Extensive use of prefabricated components sped up the construction of the towers, which were completed in a period of approximately two-and-a-half years. Once a dominant presence over the lower Manhattan skyline, the towers were destroyed in a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.