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World Trade Center

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Creator(s)
architectural firm: Minoru Yamasaki and Associates (American, 1949-1986), architectural firm: Emery Roth & Sons (1940-1949)
sculptor: Fritz Koenig (German, 1924-)
Time period
creation date: 1966-1980, destruction date: 2001
creation date: 1968-1971
Location
Site: New York (New York, United States)
Site: World Trade Center (New York, New York, United States)
Cultural context
American
German
Description
exterior, plaza with Fritz Koenig's sculpture "Sphere for Plaza Fountain" (1971)
Work type
Sculpture
Skyscraper
Office building
Medium
bronze
steel
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Image
Rights
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, photograph by G. E. Kidder Smith
Access rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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