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Fifty years ago, in 1964, Minoru Yamasaki’s proposed design for the World Trade Center was first revealed to the public. Rising far above the Lower Manhattan skyline, the Twin Towers—centerpieces of the original World Trade Center complex—were intended, in the words of their architect, to “become a living representation of man’s belief in humanity.” From the beginning, the project was not without controversy. Positioned at the confluence of several transportation routes, an entire district known as “Radio Row” would be claimed through eminent domain and demolished to make way for the new center of commerce. The abstract—arguably overpowering—design invited fierce criticism. Nevertheless, Yamasaki and associate architects Emery Roth & Sons would devote over a decade to the design and construction of the World Trade Center, which proved significant not only as an urban renewal project, but also as an architectural and engineering marvel. By the time of their destruction, the Twin Towers were one of New York City’s most prominent icons. With the new World Trade Center slowly approaching completion, the importance and irreplaceability of the original becomes more evident. CLOG will therefore critically examine that which has forever been lost: the World Trade Center, Dedicated April 4, 1973. Please note that this issue of CLOG will focus only on the World Trade Center complex prior to September 11, 2001.
Memories can be constructed in part or as a whole. In part by assembling details of an aspect of an object in question or as a whole by laying hold of whatsoever can be found, pieces ideally that later assumes a recognisable form. Both tasks are iterative or partially interdependent. To find parts to the whole is create a framework in navigating an identified archive. A possible narrative should reconstruct that which has been seeming lost as it’s no longer available in a format it was earlier accessible. To recreate the memory of a contemporary condition is to approach it via tools used to accumulate this memory. Youtube is among the several available information repositories to store and make available a public archive. Location within this archive is sub-archive that is gets assembled every time a keyword search is rendered. From this formation emerges the Youtube playlist. The following collection tires to observe the situation of WTC as a case-study for a possible form of memory to the requested editorial rules laid out to highlight its 28year period of existence. Three stages are identified to this form, a) the introductory phase of establishing an identity, b) the experiential phase wherein this identity is explored and c) the surreal realm of the identity. In these three scenarios is the becoming both what is lost and how it has enabled living within itself and its context at large. The playlist, the derivation of excavating an identified strata is now the fresh object to enter into public consumption as WTC 1973 – 2011.
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Building the World Trade Center and Twin Towers - Full version
WakeUpCall4World
Uploaded Dec 14, 2010
Tightrope walk across World Trade Center (1974)
Mike Gardner
Uploaded Dec 27, 2008
World Trade Center Public Opening Hours Film
TECHSMEX
Uploaded Apr 15, 2007
Downtown New York World Trade Centre 1970s
James Cheeseman
Uploaded Oct 14, 2011
WORLD TRADE CENTER SUMMER OF 1988
Jose Rodriguez
Uploaded Jul 9, 2010
World Trade Center home movie on a clear day, 1991. Unedited.
cillanthe1st
Uploaded Dec 7, 2010
Windows on the World. World trade center wedding 1992.
Craig S
Published July 6, 2012
Inside World Trade Center pre 911 ! footage from 1996
drum clown
Published Jun 22, 2012
Ronald Segerius filmed the Twin Towers in New York
EtrofOnaip
Uploaded May 7, 2007
World Trade Center : the twin towers (1998)
a music lover in Paris
Uploaded May 8, 2007
World Trade Center Elevator to the top, Sept, 2000
majorleaguepinscom’s channel
Uploaded April 15, 2007
WORLD TRADE CENTER VISIT BY JIM & LINA 8/13/01
TheJimmyAllen
Uploaded Sep 4, 2009
The World Trade Center Sketchup
Hugh Nab
Published May 19, 2014
World Trade Center (Twin Towers) before 9/11 (outside and inside)
KAWASAKI1994AD
Published May 15, 2012
LOST Frames of the WTC UFO Sighting REVEALED
kmarinas86
Uploaded Mar 27, 2009