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To: cgbg
Look at other examples around the world of planes hitting buildings...

Were those other buildings also designed by Minoru Yamasaki? along with Emery Roth & Sons as associate architects?

Were those other buildings part of the "New Formalism" design that Minoru Yamasaki and Edward Stone practiced?

Were those other buildings designed with Minoru Yamasaki's trademark "Skylobby" elevator system that didn't use the traditional full-height shafts in a reinforced central core in the building?

Instead of using a centrally located cross-bracing system in the core of the building, Minoru Yamasaki and structural engineer Fazlur Khan employed an exterior truss system to decrease the need for large internal pillars to so each office floor was a vast open space unimpeded by support columns, ready to be subdivided as the tenants might choose. What would happen once the exterior truss systems was compromised? Were those other buildings built without a reinforced internal core but instead relied on an exterior truss system like the Twin Towers?

49 posted on 09/10/2023 9:29:54 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

You can research the other buildings yourself.

There are lots of excuses for why the towers fell—that is all they are—excuses.


59 posted on 09/10/2023 6:55:56 PM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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