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The Towers were dedicated on November 11, 1965, with the groundbreaking ceremony having been held on March 29, 1965. Both buildings were originally planned to open in October 1966, but due to strikes and construction delays only the first 13 floors of Morrill were opened by that date.
Structural damage, fires ignited by jet fuel weakened the tower's steel beams, eventually causing a progressive collapse. [4] Marriott World Trade Center [5] Lower Manhattan, New York City 1981 Destroyed Sustained heavy damage in the collapse of 1 and 2 World Trade Center 54+ Did not collapse, but was declared destroyed. [6] 4 World Trade Center
A "bucket brigade" works to clear rubble and debris after the September 11 attacks. The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center elicited a large response of local emergency and rescue personnel to assist in the evacuation of the two towers, resulting in a large loss of the same personnel when the towers collapsed.
At the time of their completion the "Twin Towers"—the original 1 World Trade Center (the North Tower), at 1,368 ft (417 m), and 2 World Trade Center (the South Tower)—were the tallest buildings in the world. The other buildings in the complex included the Marriott World Trade Center (3 WTC), 4 WTC, 5 WTC, 6 WTC, and 7 WTC.
Wothorpe Towers are the remains of Wothorpe Hall (also known as Wothorpe Lodge), a late-Elizabethan, early-Jacobean country house in Wothorpe, Cambridgeshire, England.Built for the Cecil family in the early 1600s, the house was occupied for 150 years before it was partially demolished, with only the towers and outer walls surviving.
The LeVeque Tower is a 47-story skyscraper in Downtown Columbus, Ohio.At 555 feet 5 inches (169.29 m) it was the tallest building in the city from its completion in 1927 to 1974, and remains the second-tallest today.
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The building's interior includes a large open lobby with 22 elevators. Higher floors have offices for numerous state agencies. The tower's 40th floor contains an observation deck, open to the public. The Rhodes Tower was designed by Brubaker/Brandt and Dalton, Dalton, Little, and Newport in a Modernist style.