Twin Towers (disambiguation)
Appearance
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The Twin Towers can refer to:
Buildings
A number of complexes that consist of two tall structures, including:
- Czech
- RKS Liblice 2 at Liblice. Two 355 metre tall guyed masts for mediumwave broadcasting 60 metre away from each other.
- Germany
- Deutsche Bank Twin Towers in the famous banking district of Frankfurt.
- India
- The Imperial in Mumbai. Upon completion, will be the world's tallest twin residential tower.
Regina,Saskatchewan,Canada....Canadas own twin towers are two bank towers that stand magnificently over the city at night and the only twin towers int he country.
- Malaysia
- Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, currently the tallest twin buildings in the world and it is the second tallest building in the world.
- Spain
- Hotel Arts and Torre Mapfre in Barcelona, Puerta de Europa in Madrid.
- Sweden
- Soelvesborg Twin Towers in Sölvesborg, radio towers of the mediumwave transmitter of the foreign service of Radio Sweden.
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Eric Williams Plaza in Port of Spain, which houses the offices of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago and the Ministry of Finance.
- United Kingdom
- Wembley Stadium in London, which had Twin Towers before being demolished in 2003.
- United States
- World Trade Center in New York City, destroyed in the September 11th, 2001 attacks.
- Time Warner Center also in New York City.
- Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, California.
- Fox-TV Tower and KTRK-TV Tower in Missouri City, Texas, two 600-metre tall guyed radio masts approximately 30 metres apart.
- TV masts Chalmette, Texas, USA, 2 guyed masts, 318.8 metre tall close together
- TV masts Farmville, North Carolina, USA, 2 guyed masts, 356 metre tall close together
- Oregon Convention Center
- Marina City
Books and Movies
- Twin Towers, a 2003 Oscar-winning documentary depicting the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
- The Guide in The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy is published in a fictional twin towers on Ursa Minor Beta
Sports
- A nickname that was given to the basketball players Tim Duncan and David Robinson of the San Antonio Spurs, both over 7 feet tall and in the Spurs' starting lineup in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
- A nickname that was given to the basketball players Hakeem Olajuwon and Ralph Sampson, who played together for the Houston Rockets in the 1980s.
- A nickname that was given to the basketball players Elden Campbell and Dale Davis who played together for Clemson University.
- A wrestling tag team in the World Wrestling Federation in the late 1980s of the wrestlers Ray Traylor and George Gray.
See also
- Tower array
- The Two Towers is the second volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.