WTC - World Trade Center (Twin Towers) August 2000 (Inside and outside) New York
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- Опубликовано: 2 май 2020
- A video I made during my sty in New York on august 8th 2000. It shows the World Trade Center from the inside and outside. (including The Mall at the World Trade Center).
The video was filmed on video 8, so the picture quality is like todays standard.
Please let me know what you think about it.
This is the closest and cleanest footage I've seen of the Warner Bros store in the Westfield mall.
Closest and cleanest footage of WTC ever seen
I remember going to the basement mall during my lunch. The buildings were beautiful and iconic. Sad that they no longer stand. 😢
What company did you work for?
What floor?
They still stand in our hearts
I feel the same I loved the way the buildings looked when I went to NYC when I was 13 yrs old. I wish bad people did not exist in the world. 😓😓😓
A masterpiece of engineering
I really wish I could have gotten to see all of this in person. Was way too young to visit NYC before 2001. My dad used to commute to work and come up through the elevators beneath where all the trains went in and out. The design of the area looks very nice. ❤
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It is incredible to accept that all that is no longer here.. 😔
They should have rebuilt them
They made it into one trade center
They could always be rebuilt in a different city, like maybe Chicago.
Agree should've made them bigger stronger better then ever.
@@Galidorquest they’re a staple of manhattan you can’t just plop them in a different city that’s like saying you can just move the eiffel tower to los angeles
@@flipflopp-sg8jq I completely understand, but I read somewhere that they're literally not allowed to be rebuilt in New York. There's no space at the WTC and Silverstein and the PANYNJ doesn't want them back in NY. A replica (hypothetically speaking) would *have* to be built in a different state.
On top of that, it would've been too eerie anyway if the Twins had been rebuilt on the same site that they were destroyed. This is a golden opportunity for another city to attract more tourists.
Also, Chicago and New York are very similar. So similar that even Home Alone was filmed here. We even have a building close to a waterfront called the Aon Center, which looks identical to the Twin Towers and was built around the same time. It'll even have an observation deck soon.
If a replica of the Twins is built near & diagonally across the Aon Center, it'll almost look just like before, and we would also (kinda) have *triplet* towers in our skyline.
Look up images of Chicago's skyline. A lot of our buildings look very similar to Manhattan's. I really feel as though a replica of the Twins was possibly destined to be built in Chicago. It would look really cool with our buildings.
Am I the only one who feels something like I have already been near these two towers?
My dad saw them when they were build . We were there 12 months before …you know…
I remember walking around in them.
Should of been built exactly the same, wider staircases that’s it. The design was flawless.
the "flawless" design is the reason the towers collapsed and so many people got trapped...
@@DutchDukeMan no it wasent , don’t act dumb , they turned into dust, Nano thermite and Geletin.
It had flaws because the towers collapsed
It’s not respectful to victims and families of 9/11
I remember those cows, they were all over the city that summer. Almost every weekend i would skate from Central Park to the Battery, hang out by where the yachts were docked and walk back up the Chelsea Piers when it got dark. I can still feel the sun on my skin.
Thank you really much for having shared this gorgeous footage. This is absolutely beautiful. Brings tears to my eyes.
It’s always a great experience to see Minoru Yamasaki’s and Emery Roth and Sons’ vivid project and creation of the original WTC (1966-2001), even in a brief video.
The WTC towers (1 WTC aka “North Tower” and 2 WTC aka “South Tower”) had a special “aura”, something I can’t explain, not to mention the happiness, peace and union feelings brought by the Austin J. Tobin Plaza and all of its works of art, like Fritz Koenig’s “The Sphere” (1971).
I’m indeed fascinated by all the hardworking and devotion related to the original WTC complex.
I’d like to highlight the following moments of this video:
0:08 - That interesting black 5 WTC facade. So beautiful;
0:53 - That 2 WTC Mezzanine. Look at all those country flags! That’s a nice memory of how plural the WTC complex was. That 2 WTC memory regarding the flags is always something special to me and that was still there till the 09/11 attacks…;
1:24 - Look! That’s a nice zooming at the beautiful 3 WTC, aka “Vista Hotel”, “World Trade Center Hotel” and “WTC Marriot Hotel”;
1:43 - I’d like to know what those WTC-Cow shaped sculptures were representing there. Notice the amazing James Rosati’s “Ideogram” (1972) sculpture to the right;
2:32 - that is a breathless view: seeing the facade of the 2 WTC (“South Tower”) brought some other tears to my eyes. Look at those absolute outstanding “tridents” pointed upwards and the amazing New Formalism symmetry and pattern of those external columns on the tower leading to the sky… Thank you very much for having recorded that view;
3:14 - We have a nice view of the 7 WTC, the only building in the WTC complex that was out of the main WTC block (terrain) and that had a solid red granite outer design. That was the last building of the complex to be constructed (1987);
3:18 - Another special view: two of the three black buildings of the original WTC complex: 6 WTC (to the left) and 5 WTC (to the right);
3:23 - Pure love! A great footage of the Austin J. Tobin Plaza and the 5 WTC, in the background. Lovely memory; and
3:44 - A precious bottom-up view of the 1 WTC (“North Tower”).
Lovely filming.
Thanks so much for your feedback. This again tells me that it was the right decision to post this video on YT. Thanks and all the best.
Hi Pedro! Absolutely SUPERB comment highlighting some of the crucial design aspects of Yamasaki's legendary architecture. You sound well-versed and highly knowledgeable on the subject. That makes two of us buddy! :D
I share your sentiments regarding the stunning grace of these remarkable buildings. They were _much_ more than your average cookie-cutter skyscraper blocks. Despite their initial backlash from architectural critics of the 70s, I believe they were only criticized because they were indeed many decades ahead of their time. It took many years before the city was able to catch up with them, and to finally appreciate the towers for what they came to represent: the ingenuity and limitless potential of the human imagination.
You freaking NAILED it on that particular remark about the towers having an "aura" around them. And about the peace, union, happiness brought on by standing in the AJT Plaza looking upon the vast and impregnable towering mass of aluminum-clad steel columns, stretching to seemingly impossible heights. One would need to crane their neck uncomfortably just to get a view of the top. Unbelievable sense of humility standing in the presence of these two giants. A very important design call on the twin aspect of the towers. There's something about it I can't quite explain, but I've studied the body language of visitors recorded in many of the video clips prior to that dreadful day in September '01. Their body language speaks volumes in terms of what the twin towers could do what so many modern skyscraper projects lack: inspire awe and wonder.
Another thing I absolutely admire about Yamasaki's design choice of the towers was his opting to recess their window columns a full 12 inches _(if I recall correctly from memory)_ back from the outer (curtain) wall of the buildings. Countless modern day skyscrapers, all-glass facade in particular, utilize floor space up to the curtain wall for maximum floor coverage. The idea works well if your aim is to make the most money off of your property, but it's not so great if you're shooting to make a nice looking building that people would actually want to interact with. So delicate was the architecture of the twin towers that Yamasaki ensured his buildings would invoke a sense of safety within the narrow 18.5 inch window columns. He feared heights, and loathed all-glass facade towers for their overwhelming sense of vertigo they induced as one approached their windows, feeling as if one would fall out. Another careful design consideration was the rooftop observation deck. Yamasaki carefully planned the deck as so avoid any potential fear. This included a large fence around the perimeter of the deck, and an observation deck that was again recessed back from the outer edge of the building. Even the window washers were meticulously designed to avoid any sketchy situation involving a person hanging over the side. I believe new the, all-glass replacement tower _(singular)_ uses conventional window washers, and if I'm not mistaken, there was an incident a few years back involving a sketchy situation of a person hanging over the side of the building. Strange, isn't it? Certain architecture seems to have gone backwards in many ways.
Can't forget about the marble and stainless steel decor in the tower lobbies, nor the polished granite sky lobbies. Equally important are elements such as the innovative three-zoned arrangement of the towers in order to maximize efficiency of elevators, or the state of refrigeration systems housed in the depths of the 7-story deep bathtub beneath the towers. Yamasaki designed his buildings to resemble trees, and the WTC was no exception. Not only were the towers build to resemble trees, but so were the plaza buildings with their characteristic "branching" pedestals. And the towers themselves could be viewed as gargantuan steel trees. In fact the tridents were also referred to as trees. Moreover, the central core of the towers further exemplified their tree-like aspirations. Finally, the towers were "rooted" seventy feet below grade, directly into bedrock, and technically built in the Hudson river. They even "drank" the water from the river in a sense, as river water was pumped directly to the Hudson to be used in various mechanical systems.
I'm all fired up now, but I don't want to get too carried away with myself here writing a whole chapter in a reply. I'm just so passionately enthusiastic about this subject in particular. The twin towers have always been a personal favorite of mine ever since I was old enough to recognize the different buildings of the world. To me, the WTC always stood out as being uniquely different from any other super tall building. Something about the sheer size and scale of not one, but two buildings glimmering in the sun. It's somewhat of a lost art form nowadays, with everything being done on computers. These buildings were designed and conceptualized in the 60s, every detail was painstakingly drafted by hand. They were the first of their kind in dozens of fields, and continue to set the precedent for modern-day skyscraper projects. Yet nothing will ever come close to the sheer size and mass of this immensely powerful symbol of ingenuity.
@@EskimoCanadian44, thank you really, really much for your in-depth reply. It’s always amazing to find someone who likes the original WTC complex as well. Your words have made my day!
Your comment made me feel like I was visiting the original WTC complex, being guided by someone well-versed and quite enthusiastic about the technical aspects, design and architecture of the buildings. I’m amazed, even though as I’ve tried my best to read everything I could about the original WTC complex and have managed to learn about many details regarding the buildings, I can’t get enough of WTC-related subjects.
I do agree with you, regarding what you’ve said about the brilliance and ingenuity behind Yamasaki’s creation and legacy. It’s important to acknowledge that a huge human work and a lot of effort were devouted to build something like the WTC complex. We must never forget that, as we are only here, in this world, at this time, because of many people who have worked hard to leave us what is our present (and that will, somehow, be part of our future). Architecture and engineering are good examples of those legacies. You were right: I myself consider the original WTC complex inspiring and wonderful (look at that gorgeous limitless view to the sky at 2:37!).
Besides, you have highlighted many important things regarding the buildings. The aluminum-clad columns is a remarkable subject: I’ve watched some documentaries about the original WTC construction and is worth noticing the reddish steel beams and columns that were being placed.
As we can see in this video, the shiny external columns of the towers were that way because of the gorgeous aluminum plates (sheathing) that covered the reddish beams and columns. That was so beautiful… Not to mention your nice reference about the tridents and trees: “Yamasaki designed his buildings to resemble trees”. I’ve never made that assumption, nor realized that before, but you are right indeed. They do resemble trees and the interior design of the lobbies, together with the complex elevator system, support that assumption.
Unfortunately, as we can recall from some of the 9/11 footages, many of those aluminum plates/sheathing were violently taken from the towers, melted, fell on the surroundings and were destroyed after the plane collisions…
The recessed windows are another great highlight from your reply. They were not only “recessed windows” themselves, but also a breakthrough design. That is something pretty nice to acknowledge as well: Yamasaki’s known fear of heights made him project a cozy environment that could help visitors and workers/employees experience a safer place to be, even though much higher than usual (for the time, not to mention the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey having expanded the project of the towers from roughly 80 to 110 stories).
Those recessed windows, as you’ve well mentioned, led to the development of a pretty amazing window washing mechanism (another innovation brought by the WTC complex): each tower had roughly 22.000 windows, scattered in four facades 63 meters wide, and roughly 420 meters high. It’s known that the window washers, which were safer than the usual “loose window washing scaffolding system”, took roughly a month to clean the entire building. Look at the mechanism as that small grey “lump” at the upper-left part of the tower (almost at the rooftop level) at 2:37 of this video (oh, Gosh! That bottom-up view of the 2 WTC is so breathtaking…).
And to think that those rooftops were made even more remarkable because of the august of 1974 visit of Philippe Petit for his record high-wiring.
Indeed… The original WTC complex had (and still has) a very special meaning. Even though, for some people, as you’ve well stated, the buildings took some time to be “a taste acquired”, I think their concept has aged pretty well: I really feel some nostalgia and fascination regarding the original WTC complex buildings. After that dreadful day, emptiness has filled me, regarding not only the complex itself, but all the life that made the buildings a remarkable place to be.
I’m very touched by a specific image that comes every now and then to my mind, regarding the original WTC complex: at the Austin J. Tobin plaza, back in december of 2000, somebody has put huge letters at the eastern (and main) entrance of it, just in front of Masayuki Nagare’s _Cloud Fortress_ (1972) sculpture, that said “Peace on Earth”.
Combined with that, I’ve watched a footage of the 9/11 that depicted the plaza shortly after the plane crashes. On that footage, I could listen to some songs, like “How Deep Is Your Love” (1977), from the Bee Gees…
How ironic and sad: peace and love were ideas related to the WTC. Remembering that always get me…
That all the innocent lives and the hardworking of countless people who were involved with the life behind the WTC complex must never be forgotten, nor be overlooked.
Thank you, once again, for your devouted reply. People need to realize how meaningful the original WTC complex was. It was much more than “buildings” themselves. They were life.
@@pedrofarias417 Beautiful and touching reply that brought a teardrop to my eye. You know, I never got a chance to visit them firsthand. And no matter how many pictures or videos of the towers I look at, I still can't quite grasp the magnitude of their titanic dimensions. Two hundred feet square is absolutely gigantic for the footprint of a super tall building with shear vertical walls. I have seen the Peace on Earth sign in photos and it's lovely indeed. One day I wish to see the whole complex, as it was, brought back to life in virtual reality.
It is hard to believe that such huge beautiful buildings could be gone.
I still remember the concourse from WTC 4, go down the steps be a health store on the right, 1st strawberry and banana drink. Then chase Manhattan bank far left corner, turning right to the longest escalator I ever seen to the path trains. That was 1979 my only ever office job.
I was 16 when you taped this. Hard to
believe what would happen a year later
Wow big brother....
I was 11 yr old
@@Jakesullyy huh?
And I had just turned 14 there just 4 days earlier 8/4/00.
I was 19 and moved out on my own for the first time that month I remember reading the paper about the concorde accident then too. Wow time goes by so fast.
It just scares me to see these buildings standing and people living normal lives and working as normal had no idea what was coming in 13 months!
Ikr it still blows my mind until this day
@@donikquac yup!
@@matthewtorok-smith1967go read the book of revelation in the Holy Bible. There is a lot worse coming in the near future, possibly the next 5 years.. God bless you
They already lived thru the 1993 World trade center bombings.
This is the NYC I grew up in
This architecture. Damn... To much glass in modern super-tall buildings.
I typed in "August 8th, 2000" in the RUclips Search Bar, and sorted the results by "View Count", and this was the top video, with 30,291 views as of 08/08/2022 at 12:09 A.M. Eastern Time(U.S. & Canada).
I was only 6 when 9/11 happened so I don’t remember much of the world before that tragic day, we did visit NYC in 2008 so I’m just here imagining an alternate universe where it’s more like this and we visited these towers.
We're the same age. I vaguely remember the day only because there was so much disturbance in the "grown up" world during then.
At that time I thought it was a local distasteful ad advertising a clearance sale.
Honesty none of us across a spectrum of age ranges could process that initial day, and that's the haunting feeling I still remember to this day
I remember going up to the observation deck of the north tower in 1990 or 1991 and just having a 360 view of Manhattan and the rest of New York
No you didn’t lol we can see your channel
@@primekipnisszn5262im pretty sure thats his dad who commented hahahaha
Fantastic video. Really shows how beautiful and massive the towers were.
2000 really looks like the 1980s now!
Of course
Just think 13 months later they were gone
I wish I was alive in 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
(I was born 2008)
Какое чудо архитектуры и человеческого труда! Прекрасное ивеличественное творение рук строителей! Жаль, что не смогла побывать здесь и впитать всю красоту этих двух громадин. Бесконечно жаль людей, которые погибли так ужасно, еще ранним утром шли на работу с улыбкой. Неужели нельзя было в этот день закрыть двери под любым предлогом. ...Ведь ясно, что об этом кто-то знал....Не могли такие монолиты сложиться от пожара на верхних этажах!
The south tower is my favorite building in New York
I can only imagine so many people would have fond childhood memories of being up on the observation deck or looking out the windows of the restaurant and seeing how seemingly small the Brooklyn Bridge and everything else looked. I'm sure so many of them would have brought their kids there and given them the same experience by now, had they still been there.
Nice footage
I remember the Warner Brothers store and I remember the imprints on the floor at 00:19.
4:12 funny pigeon.
bruh you’re watching a video of two beautiful pieces of architecture and all you gotta say is *F U N N I E P I G E O N*
@@flipflopp-sg8jq I respect the original WTC and know a lot about it..
@@theartemycool3878 i’m just messing around i found it funny how there’s a video of the twin towers and while all the other comments are like “oh rip the twin towers” you’re like “heh funnie pigeon”
@@theartemycool3878 lol so? Everyone here LOVES these buildings but what’s wrong with him pointing out a lil pigeon bathing themselves? 😂😂🤷🏾♂️
@@theartemycool3878 lol my bad I meant to respond to the other guy not you 😂😂 I was defending your pigeon comment 😂😂😂😂😂
1 year and 1 month (13 months) before the collapse.
I lost it with the Bugs Bunny prop
Do you have more footage from inside the World Trade Center shopping mall? =)
sorry, that' all I have...
ruclips.net/p/PL0eed6xXhuPXtztuctOv6lq--sjYsxhZe
August 20th 2000...that was just a whole week before I turned 5 years old. Then I would be one of those many kindergartens like the ones President Bush sat with at the time of the attacks on September 11th 2001 a year later...
Hello is it OK if I use some footage from this for a documentary that me and a friend are making? I will give credit to you of course
Sure, no problem...
Those buildings were fucking massive
4:28 the pigeon knew. probably a scouting party.
0:14 Muzak version of Bad Sneakers
Im guessing that was the easiest muzak cover to identify.
Ojalá hagan las torres gemelas de nuevo
My dad was there august 2000
The thing I thought was cool was all of the buildings were connected underground to one giant building meaning I could have been staying at the Marriot in 2000 and then I could go to both Towers and I never had to go outside in the event there was a thunder storm or something outside. 🤔🤔🤔🤨🤨
So odd were those 2 towers once stood are now.two pools people alresdy lived thru the 1993 world trade center bombings.
15 days later I was born.... ohhh I wish could have seen the twin towers in person
Dude, you were born the day before me!
I was born in july 2000
Cows wearing the Towers... what in the World ....?
It was for cow parade in NYC in 2000
1:40 that cow with a trade center costume and antenna is awkward....
I wonder where those are today....
Anyone who ever visited knows it could have happened to them.
How everything changed very much when they got destroyed.
It's just incredible to think that when this video was filmed, Rudy Giuliani was New York City mayor and George Pataki was New York state governor. Two G.O.P. leaders of their respective jurisdictions, and at least with regard to Rudy, it's rare to hear of a G.O.P. mayor in 2023. Even major cities in Texas and Utah have mayors who have been, and still are, Democrats, and it's been that way from when this video was filmed up to today.
Of course, the September 11th situation took place a year later. However, I think that's out of this scope to discuss that event.
I was born on August 25th of that same year... and honestly, those towers should still be here. And I wish to god I could see them because I wish to god their destruction never happened.
I WAS BORN AUGUST 25 TOO HOLY HECK
@@flipflopp-sg8jq Ayyy! How are you my dude?
@@heha9752 doin pretty good i’m making a 2:1 scale model of WTC plaza in minecraft so that’s pretty fun
@@flipflopp-sg8jq Happy late birthday!!!
Hey dudes, I was born on the 24th of the same year, and another guy in this comment section was born on the 23rd!
I still cant believe a boeing 767 caused both these enormous buildings to collapse in only like 10 seconds
Do you realize how big a 767 is and how much extremely flammable jet fuel they carry?
I still can’t believe to this day
Bro 767 is a big Aircraft, also the intense fires caused by the jet fuels weakened the steel structure and the trusses leading to the collapse.
@@ArjunAJ-nw7rl It was no air craft, just holograms.
@@donikquac Satanic ritual.
So much material loss, both from the companies that were inside and from the people who had their own businesses, what a regrettable fact!
Alguien sabe si esa esfera dorada sigue ahí después de los ataques?
Si esta cerca de alli: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sphere
MUZAK
Year 2000 was something special great year president bush elected the Olympic Games and the euro cup 2000
sadly one year later these towers would be destroyed
Yes sáve thé people and towers no. Is a. Nike thank you
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Thank you
Remember from Chile 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
God how many people died why I will say that I am very sorry for people who have lost loved ones, I sincerely sympathize with all my heart, please hold on, everything will be fine