He started his career in New York, working for the firm that built the Empire State Building, and rose to helm his own firm in Detroit. The Port Authority chose Yamasaki based on his proposal to design a vast trade center that still had the intimate, human-focused qualities of his other designs. Perhaps motivated by self-interest as well as concern, a group of leading New York City real estate developers unsuccessfully challenged the Port Authority to scale down its proposal for the World Trade Center beginning in Led by Lawrence Wien, an owner of the Empire State Building, the Committee for a Reasonable World Trade Center joined a growing number of critics arguing that the twin towers would be unstable at such a massive height—and unsafe in the case of an airplane collision or fire.
Constructing what was then the tallest building in the world posed one of the most challenging foundation projects ever faced on the island of Manhattan. The chosen site for the project was built on landfill that had gradually extended the west side of Lower Manhattan into the Hudson some feet over the centuries. Building the foundation of the twin towers required digging 70 feet to the bedrock and excavating more than 1 million cubic yards of dirt.
To avoid flooding the site, workers dug a 3,foot-long, three-foot-wide trench around the perimeter of the site comprised of more than foot-long sections and filled it with a slurry made from water and bentonite, an absorbent type of clay.
Because the slurry was denser than the dirt that surrounded it, it prevented the dirt from filling the trench. You may opt-out by clicking here. Edit Story. Daily Cover. Four of the six towers planned on the former Ground Zero site are now open and nearly fully leased, including the centerpiece One World Trade Center.
Lower Manhattan has come a long way from its darkest day—but will it continue to thrive when the threat is microbes, not militants? O n the morning of September 11, , the Brooklyn-born real estate developer Larry Silverstein was getting dressed to go to work at the World Trade Center when his wife, Klara, reminded him he had an appointment with his dermatologist.
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