reference to the two towers of the world trade center (wtc), a complex of several buildings around a central plaza, near the foot of Manhattan, new york. Each of the WTC towers had 110 stories. The heights of the towers were 417 m and 415 m. The decision to build the World Trade Center was made in 1961, with the unveiling of the building plans in 1964, the commencement of site excavation in 1966, and the steel construction phase beginning in 1968. When the towers were completed in 1972 and 1973 they were the tallest buildings on earth. The Center contained approximately 12 million square feet of office space. In the two tower buildings, each floor was approximately one acre in size, and each tower contained 4.8 million gross square feet of floor area.the towers were designed by American architect Minoru Yamasaki with Antonio Brittiochi, and was one of the most striking American implementations of the architectural ethic of Le Corbusier (see a house is a machine for living in), as well as the seminal expression of Yamasaki's gothic modernist tendencies.the line 'collapsing like the twin towers' refers to september 11, 2001, when two commercial jetliners were deliberately crashed into the twin towers. at this day Members of the al-Qaida militant Islamism group hijacked four aircrafts. They crashed two into the twin towers and a third into the U.

S. Department of Defense headquarters, the Pentagon, in Arlington County, Virginia. A fourth hijacked plane was intentionally crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers fought back against the hijackers. the twin towers collapsed, and later A nearby 47-story building, World Trade Center No. 7, collapsed after a raging fire. A hotel in the complex was also reported to have collapsed.

These attacks were the first highly lethal attack by a foreign force on the U.

S. mainland since the War of 1812. With a death toll of nearly 3,000, the attacks exceeded the toll of approximately 2,400 dead after the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. september 11 was not the first attack on the twin towers. In February 1993, a truck bomb exploded there, killing six people, and displacing business in the complex for six months. Six Islamic militants were convicted in the bombing, and sentenced to life in prison.

September 11 had many profound effects on U.

S. domestic and foreign policy. It led the country to overthrow the Taliban in Afghanistan. It also led to what is called the "war on terror" and was a major factor leading to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.on the single version of empty souls msp replaced the line 'collapsing like the twin towers' by 'collapsing like dying flowers'.