Twin towers are a concept in architecture where 2 similar looking towers are built in close proximity to each other. They have been an architectural motif in human civilization for millennia.
4-522: Riverfront Plaza is twin-tower office building complex in the downtown area of Richmond, Virginia . Built from 1988 to 1990 on the former site of the Old Mansion Coffee Co., it was developed as a joint venture of the law firm Hunton & Williams (now Hunton Andrews Kurth ), which still occupies most of the east tower; the Daniel Corporation; and Wheat, First Securities . The complex
8-596: The celestial realm". In the medieval period, examples include the Seljuk Kharraqan towers , twin towers wrought in decorative brickwork that represent a prominent work in the art and architecture of Islamic Iran. In the contemporary era, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia are a particularly celebrated example of twin tower architecture that, from 1998 to 2003, were the tallest structure in
12-892: The world. The twin towers that were part of the original World Trade Center in New York City , New York until 2001 are also very iconic, although infamous due to the September 11 attacks . Twin towers also recur in Chinese construction, where, while the structures still representing a relative rarity, architects and engineers have developed novel interlinking twinned structures such as the CCTV Headquarters . In contemporary architecture, structurally connected twin towers with unequal heights have found particular favor among architects for their earthquake-resistant properties , due to such couplings yielding two differing vibration frequencies, enabling
16-560: Was purchased in 2015 by Hertz Investment Group from Hines Interests Limited Partnership , who owned it since 2006. This article about a building or structure in Virginia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Twin towers (architecture) Early examples include the use of twin gate towers in urban and palatial architecture in Chinese cities from the Warring States period , when they were viewed as "signifiers of
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