AD Classics: World Trade Center / Minoru Yamasaki Associates + Emery Roth & Sons

Denim Pascucci — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 10:30:00 +0000

A New York City icon that once rivaled structures such as the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center, colloquially known as the Twin Towers, was one of the most recognized structures in history. Designed by Japanese-American architect Minoru Yamasaki, it held the title of Tallest Building in the World from 1972–1974. Up until its unfortunate demise, the WTC site was a major destination, accommodating 500,000 working people and 80,000 visitors on a typical weekday.

AD Classics: Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project / Minoru Yamasaki

Luke Fiederer — Mon, 15 May 2017 04:00:00 +0000

Few buildings in history can claim as infamous a legacy as that of the Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project of St. Louis, Missouri. Built during the height of Modernism this nominally innovative collection of residential towers was meant to stand as a triumph of rational architectural design over the ills of poverty and urban blight; instead, two decades of turmoil preceded the final, unceremonious destruction of the entire complex in 1973. The fall of Pruitt-Igoe ultimately came to signify not only the failure of one public housing project, but arguably the death knell of the entire Modernist era of design.

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AD Classics: World Trade Center / Minoru Yamasaki Associates + Emery Roth & Sons

AD Classics: Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project / Minoru Yamasaki