American architect Yamazaki was born in 19 12 in Seattle, a port city in the northwest of the United States. His parents came to America from Japan. In the mid-1960s, the Port Authority of New Jersey, new york selected Shigeru Yamazaki as the chief architect of the World Trade Center in New York from many American architects.
Design concept:
"The building we need today is to show today's era. As a person, we need love, gentleness, happiness, serenity, beauty, hope and independence. Architecture is to give such a quiet indoor and outdoor environment. With peace, we will have joy. "
Yamazaki's firm spent a year investigating, researching and preparing, and put forward more than 100 schemes. Yamazaki said that they were mature by the fortieth plan, and more than 60 plans were just for verification and comparison. In Yamazaki's view, the basic problem of the World Trade Center building is to "find a beautiful and moving form and outline, which is suitable for the landscape of Manhattan and conforms to the important position of the World Trade Center". He also said that since human beings can build skyscrapers, they can certainly understand skyscrapers.
Extended data:
1966 started construction, and 1972 and 1973 completed the twin towers of the World Trade Center, breaking the world's tallest building record for 42 years. It once occupied a leading position in the overall environment of new york City, which can be said to be a symbol of new york City, a symbol of American prosperity and a precious heritage in the history of human architecture. Architect Yamazaki designed the main body of the building as a twin tower, not a tower, and it was extremely simple. The Twin Towers mean dialogue, communication, existence and equality.
On 2001September 1 1 day, terrorists hijacked two Boeing 767-200ER planes and crashed into the Twin Towers respectively. Within two hours after the attack, the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-world trade center
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Yamazaki Shi