World Trade Center
|World Trade Center (torr 1 and 2)|
|Eallgemǣna getācnunga:|
|Stent be:||Nīweoforwīcburg, Geānedu Rīcu American|
|Steall:||Acweald|
|Onginn geweorca:||1966|
|Ende geweorca:||1973|
|Gemearcung:|
|Hīehþu:||417 m.|
|Gehāl hīehþu:||526 m.|
|Hīehþu be þæce:||415 m.|
|Brǣdu:||63 m.|
|Flōrgetæl:||110|
|Flōrgerūm:||1,24 millionum m²|
|Timborwyrhta:||Minoru Yamasaki and Emery Roth & Sons|
|Timborgecynd:||Heofonscrapiend|
|Āgend:||Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Larry Silverstein|
Þæt World Trade Center (ēac WTC gehāten) wæs bysignesheall of seofon hūsum mid gehālre flōrbrādnesse of 1,24 millionum m² geleged in þǣm fæsthafolheortan of Nīwre Eoforwīce Burge.
Þæt WTC wæs ūtworpen of ǣghwæþrum ge þǣm Americaniscan timborwyrhtan Minoru Yamasaki ge burhwyrhtan Leslie E. Robertson and gebrǣded of þǣm Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Be 1960. gēare cwōm þæt Downtown-Lower Manhattan Development Association (DLMA), geweardod and gerihted of David Rockefeller, mid þǣm geþōhte of sumum Woruldhandelstede swāþæt hē Nīwe Eoforwīc eft gelibbe. David Rockefeller wearþ of his āgenum brōþor geholpen forþǣm þe his brōþor ānwealda tō rīce Nīwre Eoforwīca wæs. Þæt World Trade Center wearþ, ēac eallum World Trade Centers þǣre worulde, hēafodsetl þæs World Trade Centers Association-es. Be þǣm 24. dæge Æfterran Līðan þæs 2001. gēares wearþ þæt WTC gelīesed tō Larry Silverstein.
Þæt WTC stōd becened æt his twǣm 110 flōr-tellendan twinstīplum, se North Tower (Norþstīpel) and se South Tower (Sūþstīpel). Ætsomne drōgon hīe naman Twin Towers (Twinstīplas). Þā stīplas begen wǣron hīehsta healla be Nīwre Eoforwīce and be worulde þā hīe geopnodon be 1973. gēare; Norþstīpel wæs 417 metera hēah, and Sūþstīpel 415 metera hēah. World Trade Center georne fǣrlīce wearþ unmissendlīc underdǣl æt Nīwre Eoforwīce and wearþ þǣre gehālan worulde gesawen swā hēafodtācn þǣra Geānedena Rīca American.
Be þǣm 13. Solmōnaðes þæs 1975. gēares wearþ WTC tōhrinen of ælede and be þǣm 26. Solmōnaðes þæs 1993. gebærst sum fȳræg, and þæt wæs ǣrest torngemōt gēan WTC. Ac be þǣm 11. Hāligmōnaðes þæs 2001. gēares wurdon þā Twinstīplas begen acweald þanne twegen gedwelede lyftwægnas flugon rihte þǣm heallum binnan.
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Rihte æfter þǣm Ōþran Woruldgūþe, þanne wæs fæsthafolnes wel tō fullgrōwenne, gebāsnode mann great geþynge woruldbehandle. Þǣrof wolde Nīweoforwīc hæfenburh genēotan, þǣræt cwōmon ǣlāttēowas tō Nīweoforwīce mid þǣm geþance sumne woruldbehandolstede tō gebyldenne.
Mann hogode þæt Nīwe Eoforwīc bet mæge efenlǣcan mid ōþrum hæfnum forþȳ þe eall werod under þæce gesǣton. Be þǣm 1946. gēare wearþ þǣre laga gesceāden þis tō byldenne. Þæt World Trade Corporation wearþ gerihted and bestandende ānwealda Thomas E. Dewey stealde gemōt geador. World Trade Corporation mōste gehygas ūtweorpan for woruldhandelstede. Timborwyrhta John Eberson and his sunu Drew forestealdon 21 healla tō gebȳenne mid gehālre flōrbrādnesse of 465.000 m². Þis wǣre gelimpeþ be nānum ambihtgerūmum þēah gerūm æt behandolwerodum hīere gōd tō pundum tō weardienne. Þes gehyge sceolde $1.50 millionas gecostian. Ac ūt mearcetsōcne nǣre se gehyge nealles swā geldspariend swā eftnēowunge and brǣdunge þæs hæfnes þe efn betra sceolde weorþan.
Þæt geþōht sumes woruldbehandolstedes eftnæm gerūm tīene gēar lǣtra bufan wætre. Lower Manhattan þā underēode grēate nȳd. Mænige werodas geleordon tō Midtown Manhattan. David Rockefeller, dihtend þæs Chase Manhattan Bank-es, gelēafde mā on Lower Manhattan-e. Be 1956. gēare rihtte hē þæt Downtown-Lower Manhattan Development Association (DLMA). Þis gemētung mōste ācunnian þis gefeall tō stopienne. Hē ācunnode tō Lower Manhattan-e eft līf binnan tō blōwenne mid sumum nīwan hēafodambihtbolde (One Chase Manhattan Plaza) tō his bance be Lower Manhattan-e tō gebȳenne. Þis ne macode þissa lȳtel besceād, and þēos stōw gīet mōste wiþ mænig geandǣl gehnǣstan. Mid bysgung-, gamen- and wununglēaste næs Lower Manhattan nealles fǣger.
David Rockefeller wolde hit þissa greatra. DLMA frægn Skidmore, Owings & Merrill sum grēatra foresteall æt Lower Manhattan-e tō stellenne. Þis timborgewyrhthūs blēow þæt geþōht sumes World Trade Center-es eft līf binnan and forestealde þis be East River-e to gebȳenne. David Rockefeller fand þæt hit wunderlīc geþōht wæs, hē efn hupode þæt þæt World Trade Center æt Lower Manhattan dō, swā swā þæt Rockefeller Center æt Midtown Manhattan dyde. Rockefeller Center wearþ gebȳed of John D. Rockefeller Jr. fæder tō David. Be 1958. gēare forestealde lēodum David his foresteall swā 'The billion dollar plan' ("Billion-dollar Foresteall").
In dǣdum næfdon David and his DLMA nealles nāhwæðer þā meaht noþþe geld genōg tō cunnenne gebȳan þæt World Trade Center. David wearþ of Nelson Rockefeller his brōþor fultum geseald, þe þā ānwealda tō Nīweoforwīce wæs. Nelson wel hæfde ambihtlīce miht, and swylce sealde hē ambihtlīca helpa þǣm geþōhte tō. Lǣtra sægde man þæt þā twintorras swā David and Nelson gehāten sceoldon weorþan onþȳ þe David and Nelson Rockefeller þā stīplas gebȳan cūðon.
David Rockefeller nēodde in þǣre dǣde mā fultum and hē gesōhte sumne lādrinc þe genōg ambihtlīca and searucræftlīca spēda hæfde, þæt hīe swylce grēatan geþeaht gescieppan mihten. Ēac wæs māra ambihtfultum wilcume tō wesenne.