Be the first to attend this event.
This day construction workers place the highest steel on the highest building in the world. New Yorkers will first hate it, then get used to it and eventually mourn its destruction.
The twin towers knocked New York City’s own Empire State Building (1931, 1,250 feet) off the top ofthe list of the world’s tallest buildings, but lost out in 1974 to Chicago’s Sears Tower at 1,451 feet. The twin 1,483-foot Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, surpassed Sears in 1998, only to be overtaken by Taipei 101 in Taiwan at 1,667 feet in 2004. Burj Khalifa (formerly Burj Dubai) in the United Arab Emirates is the current leader, at 2,716 feet.
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