i wish i could have visited the World Trade Center. My father had a trip to NYC back in the 80's, when he was a child. They didn't visit the World Trade Center. However they still saw it from the Stature of Liberty. when i asked him about the Twin Towers he just said that he always just viewed them as two office buildings. Nothing special. I still cant believe two massive sky scrapers disappeared in a single day, let alone within a few hours.
@@glasgowbhoy8711 two beautiful skyscrapers, one with an open air observation deck, something almost no skyscrapers have nowadays, and just marveling at the beauty of two identical skyscrapers. Two icons of the 90’s. Something I truly wish I was alive to witness.
@@glasgowbhoy8711 I live by the renaissance center in Detroit, and it was amazing. Cameras really don’t do justice just how tall skyscrapers really are.
0:58 you’re wrong here. The exchange was also surpassed by a taller building, Merdeka 118. Standing at 2,300ft, making it the worlds second tallest in the world. I live in Malaysia. Literally went to the twin towers last night for shopping haha. It’s always so amazing to see, especially standing right next to them.
@chia8004 oh that place is mind blowing. One of the best malls in Malaysia. The architecture is beautiful. There’s a massive circle in the middle held for events. I believe the next one is Christmas. They put a massive Christmas tree there every year.
That would be kind of impossible though. Even if the planes would've impacted way lower, one-sided and made sure to destroy all the core beams, the weight of those buildings were so large, any kind of initial topple angle would already cause so much stress, that the whole thing just starts sandwiching floors underneath and it would still appear as a mostly straight collapse. For example the south tower actually was mostly weakened one sided and when the collapse began, the top part toppled like 35 degrees or so, but with a weight of roughly the titanic, it still went straight down.
Let me correct you on something, the WTC twin towers were taller in terms of ceiling height but the the petronas towers were considered taller just because of the spires
@@PlasticSausages The most popular measurement does count the spire but not a removable antennas like with WTC But there are many who measures a building height according to its ceiling height or highest occupied floor
Imagine if the twin towers had a sky bridge above the impact zone of the north tower. Most of those people probably could've gotten out alive. Run over to the south tower and get the hell outta there.
If the towers weren’t to of collpase yes but because they Collpased no either way they were going to be doomed going from the north tower to the south tower is actually decreasing your survival percentage because the south tower Collpase way to fast
I was in middle school and I used to watch the Today Show in the morning before catching the bus. I remember around 98-99 first ever seeing or hearing of these buildings, and they had Matt Lauer in front of them talking about the construction of the buildings, and how they were the tallest buildings in the World. Growing up on the east coast and seeing the twin towers, I was always intrigued with seeing two massively tall identical buildings. I was a kid so I guess it didn't take much, but for people who never got a chance to see the twin towers in person, videos and pictures don't do it justice on how massive the buildings were, just as these buildings standing side by side like that.
I was in Kuala Lumpur early this year. It's quite impressive. I have vertigo and could not go up... There's an impressive mall attached to the Petronas. A new one was just built in KL and it's iconic already. The Merdeka 118 located in a different area of the CBD of KL close to Chinatown. It's the second tallest in the world Yes.. There is a stadium right by it. It's needs demoed and rebuilt. The some new development will still need to take place. A mall will also be attached.
You should do a video on the Century Plaza Towers in west LA. They were designed by Yamasaki and were built right after the WTC’s completion and are basically the twin towers of LA county. The resemblance they have to the WTC is insane, it felt surreal when I recently visited them.
I lived near his BOK tower in Tulsa for a while. It looked like a single tower, miniature world trade center lol. Still the tallest building in town, for being like a baby world trade.
I beleive their design is based on the minarets of an early mosque somewhere. Osaka in Japan has some "twin towers" near Umeda, in the north of the main city. My job had a Christmas party there once. They only really dominate their immediate area, and don't seem that tall from a distance. Tall enough for me when I was up there, though! Osaka also has the Sky Garden, which is two very narrow twin towers with a shared roof / observation deck. The escalator to get onto the roof goes "outside"!
I had a dream in the late 90's that I was in one of these towers. I was in business attire. Suddenly there was a huge explosion and I knew I had to make it to the sky bridge and run to the other tower. I was flat out sprinting for my life. I got half way across and I felt and heard an explosion and knew that both towers were experiencing something catastrophic. I decided to press on to the other tower anyway. A group of people and I decided to take a chance and get in an elevator...it went into a freefall and slammed onto the bottom floor. The doors flew open and I knew I would die!
absolutely gorgeous and intense structures! we are so tiny in comparison to these huuuuge construction projects but day by day and thousands of man hours, we get ‘em up!! i really like the Sky Bridge.. super cool especially with all the “swaying” accommodating engineering involved..
Hey. Can you please explain the technical floors of WTC in the video? I always wondered how it was managed. Some sources gives information that they were without windows, etc.
Actually, in Jakarta Indonesia there is under-contruction Tein Towes Called the Indonesia One and Two towers. It's have the twin towers with boxed design, remiscent of the original towers. But when it will be completed, they will have like a big boxed ball at the top of the tower, with small sized skybridge.
I visited Kuala Lumpur in 2000, and went up to the towers to the sky bridge. That was before how I thought of sky scrapers changed forever, because of 9/11.
@@oooshafiqooook then the North tower OLD WTC 1 had one too and a huge one if that so if you put them beside each other the north tower still beats them out
The petronas towers were not the tallest twin towers let alone the tallest buildings in the world. Until 9/11 they became the tallest twins, vanity height is just the developers being lazy. The Sears Tower is larger than both petronas in terms of floor space combined.
@@Soundcidalit still did tho if you were on the West Side Highway you could only see the north tower (WTC 1 ) and if you were in South Brooklyn you could only see the South Tower (WTC 2)
they were positioned Diagonally because of the Rooftop Observation Deck on the South Tower to protect visitors from The Radiation from The North Tower Antenna/Spire
oh wow, I knew I seen those towers before in malaysia when watching this video. hitman 2 silent assassin game feature them in a mission called basement killing. pretty neat.
Philadelphia has twin towers. And the city was supposed to have another set of twin towers, but one of the towers was canceled and the east tower was built
It is curious that there are so many skyscrapers around the world but there is no data on the distribution of steel down any of them. Are we supposed to believe that every level contained the same amount of steel?
Video idea, something that has been running through my mind since growing up pretty much, since as a Gen Z kid I grew up with post-9/11: What if 9/11 was caused by a meteor? Let's say the same timeframe, towers, the Pentagon and a random field in PA is hit, but it is not a deliberate plot to bring them down, but a natural phenomenon. How would that impact the 2000s later on?
Sky bridge wouldn’t work on World Trade Center cause the towers wasn’t side by side they met at the corners of both towers so a sky bridge wouldn’t work
i wish i could have visited the World Trade Center. My father had a trip to NYC back in the 80's, when he was a child. They didn't visit the World Trade Center. However they still saw it from the Stature of Liberty. when i asked him about the Twin Towers he just said that he always just viewed them as two office buildings. Nothing special. I still cant believe two massive sky scrapers disappeared in a single day, let alone within a few hours.
Why do u wish u could have visited 2 large offices? To use the vending machines or drink front a water machine lol
@@glasgowbhoy8711 two beautiful skyscrapers, one with an open air observation deck, something almost no skyscrapers have nowadays, and just marveling at the beauty of two identical skyscrapers. Two icons of the 90’s. Something I truly wish I was alive to witness.
@@glasgowbhoy8711 I live by the renaissance center in Detroit, and it was amazing. Cameras really don’t do justice just how tall skyscrapers really are.
@@glasgowbhoy8711😂😂😂
Me too I was 10 and was taken to ground zero (as close as people could get) late 2001. I'm still partially traumatized.
0:58 you’re wrong here. The exchange was also surpassed by a taller building, Merdeka 118. Standing at 2,300ft, making it the worlds second tallest in the world.
I live in Malaysia. Literally went to the twin towers last night for shopping haha. It’s always so amazing to see, especially standing right next to them.
@chia8004 oh that place is mind blowing. One of the best malls in Malaysia. The architecture is beautiful. There’s a massive circle in the middle held for events. I believe the next one is Christmas. They put a massive Christmas tree there every year.
@chia8004 Yeah. Do you live in Malaysia? You should go.
@chia8004 Ah not necessarily. You can still visit though.
@@LeeIsBoreddbe careful never know when a plane might be storming and in
Video idea: what if the twin towers did not collapse vertically?
Omg that would be horrific
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@@briana_patrickcollateral damage would have been much more significant
That would be kind of impossible though. Even if the planes would've impacted way lower, one-sided and made sure to destroy all the core beams, the weight of those buildings were so large, any kind of initial topple angle would already cause so much stress, that the whole thing just starts sandwiching floors underneath and it would still appear as a mostly straight collapse. For example the south tower actually was mostly weakened one sided and when the collapse began, the top part toppled like 35 degrees or so, but with a weight of roughly the titanic, it still went straight down.
@@LucyKosakithe towers weren't actually that heavy
Let me correct you on something, the WTC twin towers were taller in terms of ceiling height but the the petronas towers were considered taller just because of the spires
Exactly, it seemed like a joke when they considered these towers the tallest buildings in thw world
But doesn’t that happen all the time? It seems like the next tallest building is always sticking a pinnacle to get the record.
@@PlasticSausages The most popular measurement does count the spire but not a removable antennas like with WTC
But there are many who measures a building height according to its ceiling height or highest occupied floor
Ok then so let’s count the former north towers spire then brings the tower up to 1,730ft
Imagine if the twin towers had a sky bridge above the impact zone of the north tower. Most of those people probably could've gotten out alive. Run over to the south tower and get the hell outta there.
If the towers weren’t to of collpase yes but because they Collpased no either way they were going to be doomed going from the north tower to the south tower is actually decreasing your survival percentage because the south tower Collpase way to fast
I was in middle school and I used to watch the Today Show in the morning before catching the bus. I remember around 98-99 first ever seeing or hearing of these buildings, and they had Matt Lauer in front of them talking about the construction of the buildings, and how they were the tallest buildings in the World. Growing up on the east coast and seeing the twin towers, I was always intrigued with seeing two massively tall identical buildings. I was a kid so I guess it didn't take much, but for people who never got a chance to see the twin towers in person, videos and pictures don't do it justice on how massive the buildings were, just as these buildings standing side by side like that.
I was in Kuala Lumpur early this year. It's quite impressive. I have vertigo and could not go up... There's an impressive mall attached to the Petronas. A new one was just built in KL and it's iconic already. The Merdeka 118 located in a different area of the CBD of KL close to Chinatown. It's the second tallest in the world Yes.. There is a stadium right by it. It's needs demoed and rebuilt. The some new development will still need to take place. A mall will also be attached.
oh no, that building should be renovated. Its the **National Stadium** not some ordinary local stadium
You should do a video on the Century Plaza Towers in west LA. They were designed by Yamasaki and were built right after the WTC’s completion and are basically the twin towers of LA county. The resemblance they have to the WTC is insane, it felt surreal when I recently visited them.
I lived near his BOK tower in Tulsa for a while. It looked like a single tower, miniature world trade center lol. Still the tallest building in town, for being like a baby world trade.
I beleive their design is based on the minarets of an early mosque somewhere.
Osaka in Japan has some "twin towers" near Umeda, in the north of the main city. My job had a Christmas party there once. They only really dominate their immediate area, and don't seem that tall from a distance. Tall enough for me when I was up there, though!
Osaka also has the Sky Garden, which is two very narrow twin towers with a shared roof / observation deck. The escalator to get onto the roof goes "outside"!
I had a dream in the late 90's that I was in one of these towers. I was in business attire. Suddenly there was a huge explosion and I knew I had to make it to the sky bridge and run to the other tower. I was flat out sprinting for my life. I got half way across and I felt and heard an explosion and knew that both towers were experiencing something catastrophic. I decided to press on to the other tower anyway. A group of people and I decided to take a chance and get in an elevator...it went into a freefall and slammed onto the bottom floor. The doors flew open and I knew I would die!
when you showed that goofy looking bridge in that ai render the other day, I instantly thought of these buildings
absolutely gorgeous and intense structures! we are so tiny in comparison to these huuuuge construction projects but day by day and thousands of man hours, we get ‘em up!! i really like the Sky Bridge.. super cool especially with all the “swaying” accommodating engineering involved..
Another thing you should mention is that the architect who designed the Petronas also made the Tan Buildings in front of the WTC Twin Towers
Hey. Can you please explain the technical floors of WTC in the video? I always wondered how it was managed. Some sources gives information that they were without windows, etc.
Technical floors had open walkways and lacked windows
Especially the 108th and 109th floors (with the curved shapes)
Actually, in Jakarta Indonesia there is under-contruction Tein Towes Called the Indonesia One and Two towers. It's have the twin towers with boxed design, remiscent of the original towers. But when it will be completed, they will have like a big boxed ball at the top of the tower, with small sized skybridge.
looked like WTC and the Exchange elements combined
Twin towers are iconic
There is the Time Warner Center that was under construction during 9/11 up in Midtown, Manhattan. They are also twin towers.
I visited Kuala Lumpur in 2000, and went up to the towers to the sky bridge. That was before how I thought of sky scrapers changed forever, because of 9/11.
I saw these when I went to Malaysia sadly I was not able to go inside
They were not actually taller than the WTC twin towers, but they took the record because of their pinnacles.
then they are, in the context of Pinnacles
@@oooshafiqooook then the North tower OLD WTC 1 had one too and a huge one if that so if you put them beside each other the north tower still beats them out
@@r62aguy85 those are antennas which are removable, not a pinnacle
@oooshafiqooo well we learned 22 years ago any part of a tower is removable
The petronas towers were not the tallest twin towers let alone the tallest buildings in the world. Until 9/11 they became the tallest twins, vanity height is just the developers being lazy. The Sears Tower is larger than both petronas in terms of floor space combined.
The original WTC twin towers were also taller than the Petronas towers in terms of roof height.
Truer words were never spoken.
Everyone who was born after 2001 whom I’ve met thought that the WTC Twin Towers were located in Malaysia because they have no idea what 9/11 is 🤦♂️
i always tought there were more towers in the WTC (New York) complex
Video idea: Why were the WTC Twin Towers positioned diagonally from each other (as you mentioned at 7:53) rather than directly next to each other.
I think they did that so the building doesn't block another ones view
@@Soundcidalit still did tho if you were on the West Side Highway you could only see the north tower (WTC 1 ) and if you were in South Brooklyn you could only see the South Tower (WTC 2)
Diagonal
they were positioned Diagonally because of the Rooftop Observation Deck on the South Tower to protect visitors from The Radiation from The North Tower Antenna/Spire
Stoppp why does the skybridge look like an ironing board 😂😂😂😂
Any Malaysians here?
Not any so far. I gave the second laugh, lol.
One more here
Just to think all who worked in the restaurants, 106th-107th died. There was no hope. 😔 😢
oh wow, I knew I seen those towers before in malaysia when watching this video. hitman 2 silent assassin game feature them in a mission called basement killing. pretty neat.
Chicago also has twin towers in the form of Marina city. New York also has twin towers near Penn Station made entirely of glass
Philadelphia has twin towers. And the city was supposed to have another set of twin towers, but one of the towers was canceled and the east tower was built
Yea but those are irrelevant twin towers
The other twin towers are the Time Warner towers near Central Park.
there are two twin towers being biult in china now
It is curious that there are so many skyscrapers around the world but there is no data on the distribution of steel down any of them. Are we supposed to believe that every level contained the same amount of steel?
The original twin towers are the marina towers in Chicago.
You should do a video on people comparing January 6 to 9/11 and how they are wrong or just outright disgusting with the comparison
Idea: What if every state’s tallest building at the time, was hit by a plane?
Love the content! I like these sky scraper series of videos.
you might as well make your channel name "Twin Towes"
Make a video on the tallest sky scraper in the world
I think you should compare the WTC twin towers with the Burj Khalifa.
Video idea, something that has been running through my mind since growing up pretty much, since as a Gen Z kid I grew up with post-9/11:
What if 9/11 was caused by a meteor? Let's say the same timeframe, towers, the Pentagon and a random field in PA is hit, but it is not a deliberate plot to bring them down, but a natural phenomenon. How would that impact the 2000s later on?
people would wonder why 3 meteors suddenly crashed into 3 major buildings and 1 into some random field
the chances of this happening would be so mental it would spawn conspiracy theories left and right
@@fwdgg it definitely would
Video idea What if the nyc twins were in other places: Seattle, Los Angeles etc.
Sky bridge wouldn’t work on World Trade Center cause the towers wasn’t side by side they met at the corners of both towers so a sky bridge wouldn’t work
what happened to the piano on windows on the world
Why don't you actually go to these places and video it instead of showing low quality stock photos.
What’s with you and the twin towers lately lol. I feel it tho (ADHD)
Good god dude what’s with your odd obsession with the WTC?
Lol righttttt lol ,… like it’s not even September anymore lol lmao smh
Nice thumbnail.
What about the twins in Dubai. Look exactly like Chrysler tower
Don't be depressed :(
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