The full name of World Trade Center-World Trade Center (1973—20065438+0 September 1 1) was originally one of the landmarks in new york, USA. The original site is located at the southwest end of Manhattan Island in new york, New York, USA, with the Hudson River in the west. It was built by Japanese-American architect Shigeru Yamazaki. Covering an area of 6.5 hectares, it consists of two tower skyscrapers with 1 10 floors (and six basements) and a height of 4 1 1.5 meters, four office buildings and a hotel. Skyscrapers are square in plan and 63 meters in side. Each skyscraper covers an area of 466,000 square meters. It collapsed in the terrorist attack of 1 1 in September 2006.
On weekdays, about 5,000 people work in the World Trade Center, and more than 200,000 tourists enter and leave the Twin Towers. Due to the huge population, the World Trade Center even has its own independent postal code: 10048. You can get a panoramic view of new york from the observation deck of the South Tower and the International Hotel of the North Tower. As a landmark of new york, the Twin Towers are widely displayed in movies, television, postcards, commodities and magazines, and become world-famous buildings.
Skyscraper, also known as super high-rise building, is a very high multi-storey building. Originally a building with 10 to 20 floors, now it usually refers to a high-rise building with more than 40 to 50 floors. With the development of high-rise buildings in different places, the definition height of skyscrapers is slightly different. In Chinese mainland, the building code stipulates that the height above 100 meters belongs to super high-rise buildings; Japan and France, which are over 60 meters, belong to super high-rise buildings; In the United States, buildings over 152 meters (500 feet) are generally considered as skyscrapers.
the Pentagon
The Pentagon, also known as the Pentagon, is located in Arlington County, Virginia, southwest of Washington, DC, USA. It is the office of the U.S. Department of Defense and the seat of the highest military command organ in the United States.