WTC Towers: An American Icon
5 October 2001 - 12:00pm
Remembering the World Trade Center towers, their place in the Manhattan skyline, and what they meant to New Yorkers.
"To anyone who doubted the power of modern architecture to convey potent cultural messages: think again...Skyscrapers are an American invention, and the World Trade Center was among the last to reflect something of the visionary ideals of progress and technology that so defined the last century. How high can we build? How high can we fly? Can we reach the moon?"
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Requiem for an American Icon
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Newsweek, October 5, 2001
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