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- 25th Anniversary World Trade Center Desktop Wallpaper - Free desktop wallpaper of World Trade Center taken from across Hudson River, with Empire State Building centered between twin towers.
world-trade-center.netfirms.com
- A People's Concept for a 9/11 Memorial - Includes introduction, location, map, site plan, memorial pylon details, drawings, proposed features, and survey.
www.9-11peoplesplan.org
- A Tribute to the World Trade Center - August 8, 2001 - Photographs taken by Jeff Newman of the World trade Center, Winter Garden and Trinity Churchyard in lower Manhattan on August 8, 2001
www.bytenet.net/oddsandends/jnwtc
- About.com: World Trade Center Architecture Issues - Details about the construction and destruction of the towers.
architecture.about.com/library/weekly/aa091201a.htm?PM=n31091301a
- ArchitectureWeek: World Trade Center Destroyed - Editorial by Kevin Matthews, editor in chief and B.J. Novitski, managing editor.
www.architectureweek.com/2001/0912/today.html
- Collapse of the World Trade Center - Discussion of the engineering of the towers, and speculations about the modes of failure. From the University of Sydney Department of Civil Engineering.
www.civil.usyd.edu.au/wtc.htm
- Great Buildings Online: World Trade Center - Information about the building, the architect, images, drawings, 3D model, commentary and resources.
www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/World_Trade_Center.html
- How Could the World Trade Center Collapse So Quickly? - A brief technical review of the World Trade Center's construction and its tragic destruction. From The Society for New York City History.
www.salwen.com/wtc
- In Memory: Images of the World Trade Center - Photographs of the World Trade Center in New York City in the late 1980s, from Azure Communications.
www.azurecom.com/wtc
- InSpire Tower Memorial, Inc. - A center dedicated to peace through education and will be erected on the site of the former World Trade Center in New York City. Includes the vision, purpose, components, and financial information.
www.inspiretowermemorial.org
- King Concrete - An interview in New Scientist with John Knapton, professor of structural engineering at Newcastle University, employed to assess the collapse of the World Trade Center.
www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns23205
- Make the Twin Towers Rise Again - Campaign to rebuild the Twin Towers with safety modifications and enhancements. Petitions to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
www.rjdbiz.com/rebuildwtc
- New Scientist: Design Choice for Towers Saved Lives - A lucky choice of design for the World Trade Center towers reduced the death toll caused by their destruction, say engineers.
www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991281
- One World Trade Center - Structurae provides images, facts, links, and references on the North Tower.
www.structurae.de/en/structures/data/str00088.html
- Pictorial History of the World Trade Center - The World Trade Centers Association has a gallery of expandable thumbnail photographs, showing the buildings being erected.
iserve.wtca.org/History
- Pratt Institute: Building at Ground Zero - An international summer seminar on high and dense New York architecture and urban design issues following September 11 World Trade Center attacks.
www.pratt.edu/arch/seminar
- scieneering.com - Presents observations, analyses, and conclusions that are believed to be worth presenting for discussion. Comments, questions, and corrections are invited.
www.scieneering.com
- Skyscraper.org: World Trade Center - Image and description of the seven-building office complex in New York.
www.skyscraper.org/tallest/t_wtc.htm
- structurae: One World Trade Center - Technical and historical data, photos, links, and literature.
www.structurae.de/en/structures/data/str00088.php
- Team Twin Towers - Working to support, promote, and encourage the restoration of the Twin Towers and surrounding area in a responsible, thoughtful, and caring manner. Contains membership, FAQ, rebuilding, funds, and petition.
www.teamtwintowers.org
- The Height of Ambition - The history of the planning and construction of the building, with a timeline, interactive graphic and multimedia. New York Times [free registration required].
www10.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/magazine/08WTC1.html
- Tribute to the World Trade Center in 3D - Explore the World Trade Center Twin Towers in 3D virtual reality using VRML, courtesy of Alprojects.
members.aol.com/alprojects/wtc
- Twin Towers Memory - A place for people to post photos and remember the World Trade Center Twin Towers as they were prior to the events of September 11, 2001.
www.twintowersmemory.com
- Vote to Rebuild the World Trade Center - Should the Twin Towers be rebuilt as they were, or bigger and better, or replaced by a modest memorial? Vote, discussion board, visitor's emails, images and links to news and comment.
members.aol.com/votetorebuild/index.html
- World Trade Center 1999 - Tourist photographs from a 1999 visit.
www.angelfire.com/electronic/binda/wtc99.html
- World Trade Center 2002 - Derek G. Turner proposes replacing World Trade Center with a taller structure - five cylindrical towers topped by an 11-storey pyramid, arising from an transparent, landscaped biosphere.
www.wtc2002.com
- World Trade Center History - An illustrated outline of the rise and use of the twin towers that became symbols of New York, by David Johnson from Infoplease.
www.infoplease.com/spot/wtc1.html
- World Trade Center New York Tribute - A tribute to the World Trade Center, New York with links to helpful information. Includes news sources, what you can do, petitions, donations, and your thoughts.
www.worldtradecenter-newyork.com
- World Trade Center Radio Tower Poster - Offers large, high-quality color poster of the 374 foot radio tower from One World Trade Center (north building).
www.kmoser.com/wtc
- WTC Locked Fire Doors and Other Exit Barriers - Accumulation of quotes on locked doors into and out of the WTC fire stair, plus other evacuation barriers, including barrier to the disabled.
www.mjbarkl.com/locked.htm
- WTC Remembered - A New York City architectural photographer's collection, representing 15 years of photography of the Twin Towers.
stanries.com/gallery/wtc.html
- Lower Manhattan Development Corporation: Remember, Rebuild, Renew - LMDC presents concept plans for the World Trade Centre site. Includes a history of the site in maps, objectives, program elements, the planning process and how the public can comment.
www.renewnyc.com/plan/concepts.htm
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