David Childs, the lead architect of the One World Trade Center skyscraper that rose from the site where the Twin Towers ...

Though the idea of the World Trade Center was first proposed in 1946, just after World War II, for nearly 15 years it would remain exactly that — an idea. When the concept did re-emerge in the ...

Behind the development of the World Trade Center — from the mid-1950s, when it was first conceived, to the mid-1970s, when it finally opened to the public – lay a dramatic, even tectonic ...