The World Trade Center represented a worldwide popular and very famous complex consisting of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan (New York City) in the United States of America. Strictly speaking the whole complex was designed by the Japanese-American architect named Minoru Yamasaki in the early 1960s, officially opened on April 4, 1973 and consequently destroyed on September 11, 2001 during a series of four coordinated and planned suicide attacks. New York City wants to rebuild five new skyscrapers; as of November 2011 they succeeded in rebuilding only one skyscraper. The other four skyscrapers are expected to be rebuilt before the year 2020.

Note: The original World Trade Center, strictly speaking the original 1 and 2 World Trade Center, has also been known under the name of ‘The Twin Towers’. It can be said that the Twin Towers were the two tallest buildings in the whole world.

If you want to find out more about the World Trade Center, you can have a look at the official website www.wtc.com. Strictly speaking the website presents a good overview and description of the most important key facts about the World Trade Center. In other words: The reader gets comprehensively informed about amongst others the Office Towers, Memorial & Museum, Transportation Hub, WTC history and Performing Arts Center. In this context it has also to be mentioned that the official website of the World Trade Center provides a very good structure, an attractive and serious design as well as a high-quality webhosting. Furthermore it can be said that www.wtc.com turns out to be the first address when it comes to the latest and most recent news considering the World Trade Center. Just have a look at the website and get yourself informed about one of the most important buildings of New York.

September 11, 2001 has become a date etched in stone because of the attacks on the United States of America. In the morning of this day two Al-Qaeda-affiliated hijackers flew their jets into the World Trade Center – strictly speaking two jets into two towers, the popular Twin Towers. Both plane crashes consequently resulted in dramatic fires in the North Tower as well as in the South Tower. After burning for between 55 and 80 minutes both towers collapsed. In this context it can also be said that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 resulted in more than 2,700 deaths.