Mr. Childs, the lead architect of One World Trade Center, made his first design sketch on a napkin several years after the ...

He also was involved in such notable projects as a new master plan for the National Mall in Washington, D.C. and an expansion ...

8:45 a.m. (all times are EDT): A hijacked passenger jet, American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston, Massachusetts, crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center, tearing a gaping hole in ...

A memorable event in the life of the World Trade Center came in the summer of 1974 ... Petit and two friends slipped up to the top of the south tower, carrying their concealed equipment ...

In the World Trade Center, giant express elevators ... elevator that went all the way to the top. The one in the South Tower went to the observation deck, that in the North Tower to the Windows ...

Information is being updated as it becomes available. See an illustration of the North and South towers of the World Trade Center and the location of various tenants.

These striking pools, each spanning roughly an acre, occupy the footprints of the former north and south towers of the World Trade Center and commemorate the thousands of lives lost during the ...