MOC - Twin Towers World Trade Centre

[Hickernator]

The Twin Towers were always my favourite buildings. I loved the look and style of them. I wish I had the opportunity to see them. I had always wanted to make a Lego version of the towers, and I thought I would do it minifig scale.

I had hoped to create the entire complex, in different sections, in minifig scale, however I did not anticipate the limitations of LDD. As a result, all I have managed to create so far is lower third of a wall from one of the Trade Towers, which I have attached below.

I remember 9/11 as if it were yesterday. I was at school and I heard murmurings from the teachers about a fire or an explosion at a train station or something. I knew something had happened but did not know the full scale. When my mum picked me up at the end of the day, she told me that the Twin Towers had been hit and that one of the towers had collapsed. I did not believe her at first, but when we got home, my brother walked out of the house and told us that the second tower had collapsed. I rushed in and the first images I saw were of the dust covered streets of New York.

I am currently in the process of building the rooftops of both towers, which I will add to this thread once finished. I will also probably build other sections of the complex too as time goes on.

[LegendsOfNinjago]

I built a mini-architecture version. I was 4 but remember it well. Scars the heck outbid me for years.

[tman684]

Wow! That's great! The WTC is one of my favorite too, and I've always wanted to build one for my city, but it'd be too big and costly to do so.

[militaryfreak]

Wow, imagine building all that.

[Hickernator]

Thanks everyone :)

I have added some more photos, and have now begun work on the tops of the towers. Hope LDD will be able to handle it.

Mechanical floors

Angle of wall

Base of tower

Top of Tower

Edited June 1, 2014 by Hickernator

[AFOLguy1970]

I hope your project is successful. My wife has actually been up on the observation deck and has some memory of it up close and personal. This summer, I plan on visiting the 911 memorial. Perhaps your completed model could someday grace the site?

If LDD goes slow on you, my suggestion would be to break it up into multiple sections kind of like a stackable modular. There is a MOC I am working on that required it, and it probably is nowhere the size and number of parts compared to your design.

[Hickernator]

I hope your project is successful. My wife has actually been up on the observation deck and has some memory of it up close and personal. This summer, I plan on visiting the 911 memorial. Perhaps your completed model could someday grace the site?

If LDD goes slow on you, my suggestion would be to break it up into multiple sections kind of like a stackable modular. There is a MOC I am working on that required it, and it probably is nowhere the size and number of parts compared to your design.

Thanks for the tips. Think it will make it easier. Will do Going to take my time with it, and work on it every now and then.

Some more pictures of the roof. Some mistakes here and there, for instances the windows directly underneath the mechanical floors should also be mechanical floors, so I will change them at a latter date.

[Hickernator]

I have also had a go at doing the angle on the roof in a separate LDD file. I felt that this part of the build was quite tricky to get right, and I still think it could be improved on, as I feel the triangular angle should be much smoother, however I think the slopes I used on this file work better than the slopes I was previously using, as the previous slopes would not meet in a triangle.

[Faefrost]

Nice project. I practically grew up in those buildings. My father and my Aunt and Uncle worked in them for over 20 years. Thankfully they all retired in '99. Dad's desk was on the 81 floor of the South Tower overlooking the river. The precise impact point of the second plane. He would have been just sitting down to work. My Aunt and Uncle would have been up on the 84th floor. One of my Scoutmasters was the Chief Engineer of the North Tower for the Port Authority for many many years. My troop used to camp out on the Observation deck at least once a year. It still haunts them. They all lost people they knew.

My Dad is an Engineer and worked for a large civil engineering firm that was headquartered in that structure for decades. (They build Nuclear Power Plants among other things). Many of his friends were involved in the postmortem. Between what I have heard from them, and my own knowledge from many years as a Firefighter and Officer, pretty much every single conspiracy theory you have ever heard about those buildings is pure BS. Except one.

The one truth? Yes there were plans on how to bring down the buildings. The instructions on where to plant the explosives were printed on the buildings original blueprints. I have seen them with my own eyes (remember Scoutmaster chief building Engineer.) this is not a surprise. Every single building over 5 stories tall in NYC must have demolition plans baked into the building plans, by law. They do not let you build anything you can't take down. Other than being a shocking truth, these demolition plans played no part that day.

Other than that every other secret theory is wrong. The buildings fell because of how they were designed. They were not built like skyscrapers. The firefighters around here probably are well familiar with Steel Truss Roof Construction. Basically what they use for big box stores like Walmart or Target. Well the WTC was 110 Walmarts stacked in top of each other x2. Steel Truss Construction fails easily under heavy fire load, and when it fails it rolls inward to the center. The steel beams heat up, twist, and the center fails. Which is what happened.

Anyway enough off topic rambling. Wonderful MOC. One thing the pictures never seem to properly communicate. The pillars, the outer vertical stripes were actually a fairly light color.

[LEGO Guy Bri]

Quite a project! I saw this video on the youtube a few years ago. It's really neat to see brick built on a large scale

[qantas747]

wow are you building it on Lego digital designer cause can I have the link to download it