Ten of thousands of hours to design, build, and furnish and just a few seconds to crash planes into and destroy.
“Ten of thousands of hours to design, build, and furnish and just a few seconds to crash planes into and destroy.”
Yes, aside from the dreadful loss of life that was what was most frightening about it.
My mother worked for one of the first companies to move into the WTC. I remember how their move was always delayed, delayed, delayed because of course everything was taking longer than anticipated.
All the efforts of innumerable people, not just in building the buildings, but laying the carpets, moving the furniture, etc., etc. just wiped out, in literally less than an hour.
However, I think the designers deserve a lot of credit, far fewer people died that might have been expected.
I believe the fellow on the right was the architect.
He was an unknown architect that won the design competition.
They loved his design because it hat a free span from the elevator shafts to the outside bearing walls. So no columns in the way in the office spaces.
Believe it or not, the outside walls were load bearing unlike the structural grid systems that were more common.