Though the idea of the World Trade Center was first proposed in 1946, just after World War II, for nearly 15 years it would remain exactly that — an idea. When the concept did re-emerge in the ...

The 2001 world trade center disaster made the Freedom tower out of ultra-high performance cement. This new rebuilding is an opportunity for the Federal and California government to finish some key ...

Behind the development of the World Trade Center — from the mid-1950s, when it was first conceived, to the mid-1970s, when it finally opened to the public – lay a dramatic, even tectonic ...