15 August 2011 20:49 | By Maureen O'Hare
Before 9/11: A history of the World Trade Center

Aerial view, 1964

Aerial view, 1964 (© CSU Archv/Everett/Rex Features)
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  • Architect's model, 1964 (© CSU Archv/Everett/Rex Features)
  • Architect's diagram, 1967 (© CSU Archv/Everett/Rex Features)
  • Architect's diagram, 1967 (© CSU Archv/Everett/Rex Features)
  • Construction workers, 1969 (© WisHisSoc/Everett/Rex Features)
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The original World Trade Center was a complex of seven buildings including the iconic twin towers and the cost for the construction was $400 million ($2,169,167,354 as of 2011). The original World Trade Center was designed by Minoru Yamasaki in the early 1960s using a tube-frame structural design for the twin 110-story towers.

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