Minoru Yamasaki
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Minoru Yamasaki was an American architect, best known for designing the original World Trade Center in New York City and several other large-scale projects. He and fellow architect Edward Durell Stone
Yamasaki in 1959
Pruitt–Igoe housing project, St. Louis, 1954 (demolished 1972–1976)
The Northwestern National Life building, Minneapolis, 1965
The original World Trade Center (1973–2001) was the most widely-known of Yamasaki's buildings.
The original World Trade Center was a complex of seven buildings in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Built primarily between 1966 and 1975, it was dedicated on April 4, 1973
Minoru Yamasaki
…Yamasaki (Japanese: 山崎 實, Hepburn: Yamasaki Minoru; December 1, 1912 – February 6, 1986) was an American architect, best known for designing the original World Trade Center in New York City and several other large-scale projects. He and fellow architect Edward Durell Stone are generally considered to be the two master…
Radio Row and Cortlandt Street station (background) in 1936
The World Trade Center under construction in May 1970
The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in May 1973