This should be interesting, let's rate the World Trade Center's Towers.

http://www.theamericanvoice.com/images/world%20trade%20center,%20sunset.jpg

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/images/worldtrade1_skyscraper_1.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid44/pa0ecd8c0725e82907e15fc44061348f0/fce25622.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid44/p37764ecd24313ba5f119e70d8ffc3522/fce25854.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid44/p7926f232c4a2e4056adc8eeab970fa37/fce25851.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid57/pdb14312589d19c6c931c161ca7163e12/fc6b1412.jpg

10, one of my favorites. Sadly, they were strongly disliked until people realized how beatiful they were on 9/11.

10/10.. My favorite skyscrapers. Simple, elegant, they soar and are a height lover's dream. They are in your face, New York style. I love it..no setbacks, pure height.

9.5/10

Enormous, Soaring, Simple. No other building can match that effect and multiply that by 2.

They are of such scale and the closely spaced columns sometimes make them seem mysterious. In any case, these buildings were significant and powerful enough that I knew about them way before I got interested in skyscrapers.

But I always felt something ominous about them..

well....it was not a good architecture IMO. to boring facade, to boxy.... well...but in a way beautiful.... 7.5/10
Sky | Kai

I really don't like the boxiness. But they are by far my favorite.

10/10

Well, they were an icon for the american people, personally i disliked them, but yet it was so majestic and a terrific design, specially this things:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/images/worldtrade1_skyscraper_1.jpg
Wich were the few only things+with its height that i liked from it,
a shame it is gone.
7/10

Not convinced? Here's some more:

http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/jpg/g_worldtradecenter.jpg

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/yamasaki/wtcdistant.jpg

http://66.216.20.67/images/NY_WTC_TOWERS_BRIDGE_VIEW.jpg

http://hereisnewyork.org//jpegs/photos/0352.jpg

http://hereisnewyork.org//jpegs/photos/2813.jpg

http://hereisnewyork.org//jpegs/photos/0866.jpg

http://hereisnewyork.org//jpegs/photos/1512.jpg

http://hereisnewyork.org//jpegs/photos/5530.jpg

10/10:cool:

so simple yet so eligant..

the NY skyline just doesnt do with with the twins...:(

10/10 for sure...

I was always amazed by the twins.

10

7/10 Rather boring structures. Never really cared for these. Giant boxes. Buildings like Empire State Building or Woolworth have much more character.

10/10, Its so sad to see them gone:(

Absolutely mind blowing combination of size and height. The detailing and finish is nice close up but ugly and boring from a distance. Disrespectful to the existing New York skyline and streetscape, not because of the height but because of the unimaginative overall design and massing.

Brutal, dominating and uninviting. Unfortunate, and ultimately tragic, qualities for a development which would become one of the symbols of New York and America.

5/10

I gave it a 9, not because of the way it appears from the outside, but for it's advanced engineering, as it was very important to the advancement of the skyscraper technology. It was the first skyscraper built not to use any masonry as all skyscrapers had done before. The elevator system was very clever, as the towers were treated as three seperate sections with only two express elevators running the whole height of the building. The method of moving columns to the outside walls to lower wind force on the towers was very clever.

So dominating and massive.

How many buildings have a floor with an acre of floorspace at 1350ft? They were so well designed, they withstood the plane impacts and that is really something.

In no way do I see it as ugly.

RIP WTC.

9/10

They were elegant but too boxy. I don't like them at all. 5/10

I always thought they were very ugly. New York deserved better looking buildings for their tallest.. They helped New York's skyline, but on there own they look like your typical boring 60's box,abeit very tall boring 60's box. 4.5

The only thing I ever found impressive was the sheer mass of the buildings (combo size and height etc)

nothing else really.

6

This all says it....10!
http://sept-11th-patriot-day.sterlins.com/2001/World-Trade-Center-Before3.jpg

What's worst than 1 tall assed grey boxy buildings?




... two of them....




3.0/10. Sorry... I've always liked the towers... but I just hate it's architecture.

You're so right X-seed.

Two big tall ugly concrete boxes. 5/10
Even with my love for commie blocks, this is crapy cuz it's too damn high.

They looked so powerfull.My dream was to see them in real life..never happened.
10/10

Edit,remove this post.

For those who call them boxy, ugly, crappy and more I wonder how many of you actually visited them, had the WTC experience and got familiar with them. I'll bet you anything, that if they were built in your city and you glanced at them everyday and got used to them, the score you gave the Towers would at least double.

It's just X-seed. He's got something against boxes. :|

I did/do love these. So imposing. I imagine they would've been quite awe-inspiring up close, considering the sheer bulk of them. Big bolshy buggers they were, bless 'em.

I'd love to have seen them :(

The only thing I like about 'em is the higth. 5/10

10/10... simply beautiful.

Personally never liked them... I only gocked at their height.

7.5

Before 9/11 I would say 8/10. After 9/11 I give it a 10/10 because now I appreacate the sheer size and height of them and how they dominated NYC.

10, the things man kind can achieve

I wanted to see them in real life...OK, the Empire State is more beautiful, but WTC was BIG!!!

8/10

I use to work in Tower 1 North Tower in Cantor Fitzgerald Bank on the 102 floor. I quit my job a few months before the collapse but my best friends stayed there to support their families. I lost all of them. And so did their families. I swear, these were some of the coolest buildings in the world and everybody loved them. Contrary to what the man from Indianapolis said, we loved these towers before the attack. Really, we just didn't realize what we lost.

easy 10/10!

9/10. While they weren't perfect, they helped to save Lower Manhattan from becoming another downtown Detroit in more ways than one.

Never been a fan of boxes...but these were my 2 favorite boxes of all time. I never got to see them up close, but did get to see them from a distance and even then they were still a pretty impressive sight towering over the rest of NYC 9/10. :)

Absolute ten, no question about it, and then some. The pictures explain it all.

In my opinion, the two greatest buildings ever constructed.

Sorry guys but I never liked them !

Whoa ! Can't believe most of the votes are 10/10 :eek: i gave it 5/10

wow look like gods ;)

9/10 again wow:cheers: :cheers:

Originally posted by Mauser

Whoa ! Can't believe most of the votes are 10/10 :eek: i gave it 5/10

I can't believe that you gave it a 5/10;)

Originally posted by Wisma

I can't believe that you gave it a 5/10;)

Why !? It's just ugly glassy boxes :)

Originally posted by Mauser

Why !? It's just ugly glassy boxes :)

Just "ugly glassy boxes" that's like one of the worst statements I've heard about the WTC Towers. Obviously the WTC Towers were much more and go beyond their architecture and aesthetics.

whenever I do a search for WTC images the first thing I see is fire and black smoke, its terrible.
http://chili.rt66.com/ozone/world-trade-center.jpg
They are my 2nd favorite buildings, 10/10
They made me love skyscrapers at 9:45 CST 9/11/01
Wonderful skyscrapers, Its not the height that makes me love em.

How can you rate those things a 10? They're big, that's about it. I bet that if they weren't destroyed by the jihad-morons they wouldn't get so many 10's. Another reason why I dislike religion, they lead to false ratings of dull buildings! ;)

They're designed by architects without any fantasy, but who just wanted to build something big. There are numerous buildings in NY which are a lot more impressive in my opinion. Empire State, Chrysler, Woolworth, etc... Even Flatiron is more impressive.

I rate it a 7, because of the size the towers had.

how about you respect our opinions instead?
If 9/11 havent happened I would not even be here.

bet that if they weren't destroyed by the jihad-morons they wouldn't get so many 10's.

no one cares what you think about religion, this is about the Twin Towers!

6.5/10 but prolly should have given it +1 or 1.5...

the fact that they were destroyed doesn't give it plus marks or lower marks. it's soaring, at ground level this building would have been :eek: but from some of those pics, it looks rather dull, flat, and without taste

6.5

I lived in NYC for a time. I used to like the building because it was a good punctuation mark for the NY skyline. However, the buildings themselves represented the dullness of 60s modernism. Important as far as being symbols of the nation's wealth, but architecturally, blah. Certainly they were engineering marvels, but aesthetically, they were nothing too spectacular.

And just because they were destroyed by terrorists doesn't make them any better.

I like Aon more. 8/10

it doesnt make them better, but it does make them icons :)

They are tall...they also finished off Downtown very nicely.


7

Hmmm...the Twins seem to have become more popular since they were destroyed.

7/10 - They had breathtaking, in-your-face height, they could play off of each other, and they did wonderful things with the light - if any buildings were ever made for the light, these were. That's why there was, indeed, something proud and splendid about them...

BUT...they were boxy (I've heard them called the packing boxes the Empire State and Chrysler buildings came in) and flat-topped, which isn't quite my favorite style of architecture. (OK, I admit I'm severely biased towards Art Deco) I've also heard that the plaza was unpleasant and barren, and that the superblock cut off the west side of lower Manhattan from the rest of the city.

However, I really wish I could have seen them, and there are still thousands of reasons why I wouldn't mind having every boxy inch of them back....:(

It's here.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=56090

More pictures, then come back and rate them!

8.5/10

because they were one of NY landmarks

Poll trolls....MORONS!



Anyways. 10/10 Awsome building. Love it! :)

Originally posted by boybaha
it was a good punctuation mark for the NY skyline. However, the buildings themselves represented the dullness of 60s modernism.


I like that 60's dullness! 9/10

Because of 911
10/10

8.5

A full ten for height and impressive "strength" however lose marks for the lines going up the building, up close they looked ugly but in the distance these twins were standouts!

sorry to hear about that great sky.

i read about cantor fitzgerald - something like half of the employees of the whole company were wiped out on the 11th. their other main office is in london and i read some interviews in the british press about the employees working for 3 days solid to keep the company going despite what had happened.

saw these towers on the monday (10th sept) and touched them on the previous saturday in september 2001. i was going to go up them on the evening of the 11th - i bought a citypass and was going to go up them around 7pm.

anyway back to the rating....they were just massive...huge buildings and an incredibly simple design by a japanese architect....

he said that the buildings were built for peace in 1973....i think minoru yamasaki is dead now but he'd be gutted at what happened to them...

i took loads of photos before of them during the day.....just gutted that they arent here anymore really :(

id give em 10/10 for the sheer urban spectacle they created with the world financial towers in the foreground from the hudson. new yorkers must still be shellshocked.

10/10

Awesome buildings !!

9.5/10
I would have given themte same rating when they were still standing, though they were more controversial back then.

What can I say, they are the perfect boxes. So tall and slender. The flat, massive walls doesn't have any equals in size now, do they?

10 out of 10 considering what's replacing it.

Too simple. Too boring. No love lost from me for the WTC.

7/10

Big-ass commieblocks :moods:

they are a fine piece of architecture with thir lines and stripes and it's silvery shine :) 10/10 totaly amazing

the twins are truly the most powerful, soaring skyscrapers ever built by mankind. it's simple, yet it conveys such a strong message of world trade and world peace. who cares if they are boxes? i can't imagine how a building of any other style can be worthy to be nyc's world trade center.

even as the twins experience the horrors of the final moment of their lives, their strength allowed them to stand up long enough for the great majority of the workers inside them to escape. no other building built before the attacks can ever boast of a finer performance of its strength.

we must rebuild the twins, greater and better than the original, so we can pay tribute to the greatness that they had done on nyc and the mark they left in the city during their short but eventful lives and at the sametime allow the power of the twins to live on for generations.

9.5 (too bad i never saw them, and i fear that i might never have the chance to see them in the skyline again :cry: )

It's such a shame I will never get to see them for real.

10/10

one of the greatest landmarks of NYC

easy 10/10 :( :'(

9/10. Powerful, immense buildings which appeared as a gateway to New York. Who can forget that scene in Home Alone II when Kevin arrives at the WTC plaza and gazes up in awe at the towers? A later shot shows an aerial view of him taking photos from the outdoor observation deck.

I was in New York as a young kid and only had a glimpse of the towers from the ferry to the Statue of Liberty, and 8 years later I returned. This time I could only see empty sky. Last week I saw a book in the bookstore called "New York New York: Images of a City" where a photographer went back to all the vantage points he took pictures of the WTC from, and every page has a present photo showing the same view without the buildings.

8.0 for size alone. Never liked these towers because when they first went up they totally clashed with the old classic downtown towers. The World Financial Center helped, and so did the antenna on the North Tower. It gave it some style at the top.
And when the towers fell, nobody ever mentioned that the North Tower was the 3rd tallest structure in the world (1,728 feet) with antenna. If you're going to count spires, you need to count antennas. This one surely helped the look of the building.

8/10

Tall but plain

7 out of 10 , they look better at night with the lights on.

9.5.

8.0, Aon is much better!

I completely agree with you on that. :)

it was ok, but it never had the best design.

they stik out like a sore thumb

real scrapers and very nice at night 10/10

OUT OF WORDS....!!!! 10...10....10....!!!!

:) :cheers:

9/10
They were symbols and they are still

10/10

we should really sticky this thread so more forumers can notice this poll and vote on it! the twins definitely deserve a lot more attention than what this poll's currently attracting...

Height and symbolism gives this tower a 10. Architectural design gives it a 8 but safety precautions gives it a 9. So 9/10

10/10

Luckily I was able to experience the view from the roof a short two weeks before they were destroyed. 9.5.

7/10

9.5/10.

10/10

I still remember standing on top of the south tower...9/10.

The best boxes ever.

10/10.

I know it was sad what happened. I think the towers however were ugly, what is to like about them, just straight lines one after the other, not even an attempt away from a basic design. 4

8.5 The design isn't that impressive but the massive size of these monsters were.

tall..very tall box..9.5/10

9.5/10 Awesome tower...

10/10

They weren't very nice, but were so powerful and impressive. One of the boxes ever... 9,5/10

Double post.

I admit I almost wanted to give it lower because Chicago is always critisised for it's boxy buildings. Like how Sears and Hancock are apparently just "ugly boxes", yet the WTC was "beautiful", but anyways,9/10 nice scrapers.

A 10/10 nothing less...

I have loved the WTC towers since I was a kid and still do.... If you didn't get to see them in person too bad, that is pretty much the only way you could really appreciate the amazing architecture and engineering of these amazing towers..



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They changed color depending on the light....


http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/7530/wtc34mm.jpg

^^Those 'pepper pots' in the foreground looks so much more classier & distinct. The WTC didnt come close. It only had the height.
4 for the buliding design excl height, 6 incl height.

10/10 :)

10/10 :(

Classic scrapers, they really blend in and dominate the environment at the same time.
But they are rather boring.

B.t.w. why didn't they put the 2 towers on top of each other? :)

8/10

In second grade, classmates would always ask the trick question "which is taller: the World Trade Center or the Twin Towers?"

If there had been just one, it would have never flown. They're ugly, but somehow, two ugly buildings was better than one. I never despised them, but they weren't my favorite buildings in the world either. Now I just miss them.

7/10

8/10
While these buildings were technically very advanced for the 1970s, architecturally they were somewhat boring. Despite the awe-inspiring height, they do not truly soar into the sky like the Chrysler or ESB. I agree that is was fortunate that two towers were built instead of one - that would have been the ultimate in banality.

I have tried to give my opinon on the twin towers as buildings alone without letting the tragedy of 9/11 cloud my emotions. Whatever my views of the buildings, I so wish they were still there, dominating and defining the NY skyline.

By the way, Minoru Yamasaki also designed One Woodward building (1962) in Detroit, Michigan. While it is only 32 stories high, it is similar to the WTC buildings in having the very narrow, tall windows.

None in the world could surpass the massive size and magnificience of those two towers, those two were the bullies of all skyscrapers.

Reminds me of the Giant Sequoia's in comparison to the rest of the trees in the world.

10 :(

the staple of manhattan!
the joke is that the trade centers were the "boxes" that the chrysler and empire state buildings came out of! lol

8/10

6.5/10

http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/8031/wtc69fs.jpg
that looks like the end of the world in that pic!
:runaway:

It is two towers was magnificent by their simplicities.9/10

9/10

2 plain 5/10

10. :D

9.5/10

Definately iconic - both when they were there and after they'd gone. There was something about them that was a bit, well, bland and boring. It's just the sheer size of them that inspired awe. 7.5/10

BTW, to h3ll with those terrorists.

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/357/ny2gl2.jpg


http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/9656/ny1xm8.jpg

Amazing


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10/10 R.I.P.

9/10. i miss them.

I have the worlds tallest (skyscraperpage) poster from a while back that include the WTC....Yes Sears is taller.. and a couple of others slightly out reach the Trade Centre but when you look at the profiles all lined up the Twin Towers were the dominant, simple yet the most powerfully bold buildings in the whole wide world ! Combined with their lower Manhattan location even the mighty Dubai tower U/c. wont have the visual impact that these factors combined. I value the fact that I have stood atop WTC 2 and treasure my photos and memories of NYC. pre 9/11. (July2000) I would like to post my pics.?

Really nice 8.5

I really missed them too. 10/10
my dream towers

I hate those terrorist! when WTC went down, I cried, for WTC.
sorry for being too inhuman. i cried because WTC is gone, not for the lives that were lost.

Humans are the enermy of the Terrorist
Terrorist are the enermy of the world.
of the human mankind, of the all religions in the world.

10/10!!! best skyscrapers ever. how can someone give less than 5??????

the best skyscraper forever

9/10 just for being immense.

Elegant twin rectangular prisms.

10/10

10/10 for a memory :)

I like its design, but the color is dull. An 8/10.

*glad, I remembered that a magazine I bought in December 2001 has twenty-four WTC postcards in it. I know those postcards won't be available in the future.:)

10/10 :)

:) Come on now, juss look at my avatar! ! 10/10:)

10/10! these were the towers that got me into skyscrapers when I was 5 years old. sad to see them gone :(

10/10

Still can't believe how long ago 9/11 was. It seems like yesterday when all the terrible chaos happened. I can still remember what I did that day and don't think i'll forget it.
I have a huge picture of them at night in my room. I think it was taken by Ralf Uicker or something like that.
I gave them a 9/10 just because of the sheer size of them and the domineering power that they had. Would of been a 10 but I don't think they look as impressive from far away. It was these buildings that made me a fan of architecture (especially skyscrapers) and why I chose construction to study after school and at university.

I miss them.

But they're not gone forever. We'll see them again.

10/10

Without getting emotionial, the disign except for the lobby isn't great, neither is the color. The height and the fact that these towers were the first buildings to have open floors is what made them so amazing. 7/10

there should be a 11 for voting :lol:

7/10

10/10

10/10! i really miss these towers! very massive and nice at night! damn those terrorists!!! can someone please post some pictures when it was newly constructed.. and pics at night!:D:D

10/10

10/10. simply beautiful. They soared. They were amazing. a 10/10 with no doubt

7/10

Damn those terrorists!:ohno: :soapbox:

10/10 Best skyscrapers in the world, i liked there simple design and huge height. The wtc was a city within a city! And i bet people would have liked them more even if they hadent have fallen.

10/10 for sure

9,5/10

9/10

It's so sad to see them gone :(

10/10

10/10 definetly. No other buildings in history attracted so much attention to one city. They defined the skyline of NY and yes they were boxy probaly the most boxy ever but thier boxiness still made NY what it was NYC defiently loses something with them gone.

10/10 They where my favourite towers! :(
They just don't build tall buildings in that style anymore...

10.

10.

10.

10.

10/10

10. 10

10/10.

10 all they way for a boxy building it stood out there wasent one but two and they had a nice plazza as well and i loved the complex it sucks that the freedom tower wont be the same btw if you wanna tlak about a boxy boring bland building go look at the sears tower

4/10

i relaize the symbolity behind them, but if they were still up, they would get the same thing. they are really boxy....

5/10 i find it like an ugly block of concrete. Sorry.

10 all they way for a boxy building it stood out there wasent one but two and they had a nice plazza as well and i loved the complex it sucks that the freedom tower wont be the same btw if you wanna tlak about a boxy boring bland building go look at the sears tower
Um the sears tower isnt a box its like 8 of them built together lol :)
Like you said whats wrong with a boxy building?

10/10 Way more than an "ugly block of concrete." To this day, 2007, no larger or taller skyscraper exists without tapering or using setbacks; the Twin Towers reinvented the skyscraper, just like the New WTC will. The old and New WTC are proof of America's palpable and unyielding dominance.

Simple but beautiful

Um the sears tower isnt a box its like 8 of them built together lol :)
Like you said whats wrong with a boxy building?

nothing but the sears is just boring just like the store :nuts:

not if there was 2 of them then that would be diffrent and it is hard to make a building thats black really stand out and look nice the sears dose have its issues with that but its not a horrble building i just think that thw wtc was alot better

despite the towers having lived far from a full life, I'm giving the entire complex a posthumous 10/10.

sorry i gave a 4.5
i never liked them before the attacks, and never after either

they were too plain and i didn't like the facade at all, you couldn't really see windows at all and it looks like a stolid wall to me

the only thing i find impressive about them is their proximity and height.

10/10

simply outstanding

10/10 :cheers:

So nostalgic pictures!

Forever the best towers in all around the world.

Simple design but a symbol of New York City.

Always

10/10

:applause:

How come twins are here :dunno:... but ok - 10/10 bc they were iconic :okay:.

10/10

They fitted very well in New York's skyline. Plain, simple, nice and tall. 10/10

10/10
the boxy design is why i give it 10
they were iconic to say the least

10/10 I love it! :okay:

10/10

10/10

10/10

10/10 :( I miss you guys

9/10 - Box-y but very imposing.

10/10 :)

Simply the one of the best designed buildings ever in the world,and i really miss those towers...

Hope it will be rebuild again...

They will always be a 10 in my heart.

9.5/10

10. Excellent building. Regards.

10/10. tall, simple & elegant.

10/10

the universe's most recognizable skyscrapers 10000000/10. 10/10 I mean

10/10 i really miss this building

8/10

10/10 :cry::(

10/10

They would appear completely different buildings depending if you looked at them from close or far away. There were a lot of interesting details and at the same time they were so simple. A 10, for the plaza, for the towers, for the lower buildings, for the superblock, for their greatness.

10/10

9,999999/10 Because Tower One was a half meter shorter than the Willis Tower. So 10/10

10/10...

No se quien es el cabeza hueca que puede darle 3 puntos a estos iconos mundiales , pero bueno yo vengo para poner un rotundo 10 :) , Saludos !

In Memoriam.......10/10

10/10 I would have given anything to visit these beauties :(

I also liked the WTC3 hotel and the old WTC7... but the low-rises were horrible.

9/10

WTC1 10/10

WTC2 10/10

WTC3 6/10

WTC4 2/10

WTC5 2/10

WTC6 2/10

WTC7 7/10

And 9/11 had nothing to do with my high ratings for the towers.

10/10
awesome...