World Trade Center
Related: USA - International Style - architecture - high modernism - terrorism
The World Trade Center was for many years one of the symbols of capitalism and imperialism.
Minoru Yamasaki
World Trade Center: designed by Japanese American architect Minoru Yamasaki with Antonio Brittiochi, one of the most striking American implementations of the architectural ethic of Le Corbusier, the WTC had its ribbon-cutting ceremony on April 4, 1973. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center [Feb 2005]
Intro
The September 11, 2001 attacks, often referred to as September 11 or 9/11 (after the U.S. style of writing dates, and pronounced "nine eleven"), were a series of coordinated terrorist suicide attacks against the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in the United States on September 11, 2001. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11,_2001_Terrorist_Attack