{"id":3553,"date":"2019-05-13T11:04:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T11:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.tel\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2019-05-13T20:11:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T20:11:06","slug":"world-trade-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.tel\/world-trade-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"World Trade Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most controversial developments of its time, the World Trade Centre to New York&#8217;s financial district delivered over a million square metres of office space and stood as the world&#8217;s tallest structures at the time of their completion. Minoru Yamasaki with a team inclusive of Emery Roth &amp; Sons devised a scheme that incorporated twin towers with &#8216;sky lobbies&#8217; to intermediate floors, a tube-frame structural system and narrow gothic modernist elements to the facade. Initially criticised for their reduced, monolithic form (famously denounced by a Times columnist as &#8216;little better than the box the Empire State Building came in&#8217;) the World Trade Centre nonetheless became a stoic emblem of freedom and progress. Destroyed September 11, 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most controversial developments of its time, the World Trade Centre to New York&#8217;s financial district delivered over a million square metres of office space and stood as the world&#8217;s tallest structures at the time of their completion. Minoru Yamasaki with a team inclusive of Emery Roth &amp; Sons devised a scheme that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}