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The core of each tower was a rectangular area 87 by 135 feet (27 by 41 m), and contained 47 steel columns running from the bedrock to the top of the tower. [51] The South Tower's structural core was oriented with the long axis north to south. [52] The core columns supported about half the towers' weight. [52] All elevators were located in the core.
The North Tower lasted around 46 minutes longer than its twin, having been struck 17 minutes before the South Tower was attacked and standing another half-hour after the South Tower collapsed. This was because Flight 11 struck more or less in the center, causing more symmetrical impact damage to the North Tower's core and leaving more of its ...
At the time of their completion, the 110-story-tall Twin Towers, including the original 1 World Trade Center (the North Tower) at 1,368 feet (417 m), and 2 World Trade Center (the South Tower) at 1,362 feet (415.1 m), were the tallest buildings in the world; they were also the tallest twin skyscrapers in the world until 1996, when the Petronas ...
The South Tower's rooftop observation deck was 1,362 ft (415 m) high and its indoor observation deck was 1,310 ft (400 m) high. [4] The World Trade Center towers held the height record only briefly; the Sears Tower in Chicago, finished in May 1973, reached 1,450 feet (440 m) at the rooftop. [5] Throughout its existence, however, the South Tower ...
2 World Trade Center (South Tower) included Verizon, the New York Stock Exchange, Morgan Stanley, Xerox Corporation, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Aon Corporation, and Fiduciary Trust Company International. 3 World Trade Center (Marriott World Trade Center) was a hotel, therefore the whole building had one owner, Host Marriott Corporation.
South Tower may refer to: South Tower (Brussels), a building in Brussels, Belgium; South Tower, 2 World Trade Center prior to its destruction on September 11, 2001 The South Tower, an art piece by Don Gummer based on the collapse of 2 World Trade Center; South Tower, 10 Hudson Yards, a skyscraper in New York City
The north and south towers officially opened in 1970 and 1971, respectively. The nearly-identical buildings were the tallest in the world until being surpassed by Chicago's Sears Tower in 1973.
A massive evacuation begins in the South Tower below its impact zone. One of the stairwells in the South Tower remains unblocked from the top to the bottom of the tower because of the plane hitting at an offset from the vertical center line of the building, but it is filled with smoke. This leads many people to mistakenly go upwards towards the ...