1. from Chrysler Building to Freedom-Tower
SKYSCRAPERS OF NYC
from
Chrysler Building to
Freedom-Tower

2. Structure The modern skyscraper -Chrysler Building
-Empire State Building
-WTC Twin Towers
-Freedom Tower
-New York:Skycrapercity of the world?

3. The modern skyscraper Characteristics: -build with steel and concrete
-steel skeleton
-thin outside walls

4. Chrysler Building - first modern skyscraper - finished in 1930
319m high
- spire made of stainless steel -

5. Empire State Building
finished in 1931
381m high
WTB
NYC tallest building since 2001

7. World Trade Center Twin Towers
finished in 1973
north tower 417m high
south tower 415m high
WTB 1973 – 1974
- First terror attack on 2/26/1993

9. 9/11 terror attack - 2 hijacked plans crash into WTC
twin towers collasped
nearly 2800 people died
- dust covered whole Manhattan -

11. The Freedom Tower - began to build in 2004 build on Ground Zero
will be 541m high
- finished til 2010
The Freedom Tower

12. IS NEW YORK SKYSCRAPERCITY NO.1 ?
New York Skyscraper facts:
5500 highrise buildings
- 50 higher then 200m
All WTB´s from 1900 – 1974 stand in New York
- but today WTB´s standing NOT in NYC

13. Sears Tower, Chicago WTB since 1974
Taipeh 101 WTB since 2003
Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur
WTB since 1996

14. Thank you for listening
sources :
wikipedia.org
skyscraperpage.com
usatourist.com
nycvisit.com
Thank you for listening
Mathias Brinkmann
Gerd Kleiman