The centrepiece is One World Trade Center which now rises even higher than the Twin Towers at 1,776 feet tall. It is the tallest building in the United States and Western Hemisphere.

Upon completion in 1976, the World Trade Center's twin 110-story towers were the world's tallest buildings. Yamasaki's greatest triumph helped land his face on the cover of Time Magazine.

How the new One World Trade Center compares to the old Twin Towers Immediately after 9/11 attacks, plans were set in motion to make the replacement better, more durable Keith Dunlap , Digital ...

An American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)-sponsored assessment of the performance of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers and the Pentagon in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is ...

WTC, his latest effort, is a photographic history (of sorts) of the World Trade Center complex, particularly the Twin Towers, and the evolution of the site in the aftermath of the September 11 ...

The Port Authority has a tall order—selling 1 World Trade. The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks left nearly 3,000 people dead and destroyed two 110-story, 10 million-square-foot towers as well ...

The Manhattan skyline and the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center are shown from Jersey City, N.J. (March 2000) Credit: Bloomberg News/Jade-Snow Moy. The New York City skyline.

David Childs, the lead architect of the One World Trade Center skyscraper that rose from the site where the Twin Towers collapsed in New York City during the 9/11 attacks, has died. He was 83.

David Childs dies at 83; architect oversaw One World Trade Center that rose on Twin Towers site after 9/11 He also was involved in such notable projects as a new master plan for the National Mall ...

NEW YORK -- Nine competing designs for the World Trade Center site were unveiled Wednesday, ... Four of the plans for ground zero call for topping Malaysia's 1,483-foot Petronas Twin Towers ...