Blueprints for the original World Trade Center have gone on sale at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair on Friday after a Colorado man pulled them out of the trash.
The set of plans for sale represents the largest floor plan of the Twin Towers complex ever offered for sale, according to the New York-based Janes Cummins Bookseller. Cummins told the Associated Press that he expected the sale to be in the six figures.
— DW
According to the Wall Street Journal, the plan set includes over 500 original plans from the 1960s and once belonged to Joseph Solomon, one of the World Trade Center architects.
whoever has them should contact the Skyscaper Museum in NY or the Council for Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat (CTBUH)
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Wow! What a find.
this seems like something that ought to go into a museum collection. it's almost macabre to hold onto something like this as a collector's item.
whoever has them should contact the Skyscaper Museum in NY or the Council for Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat (CTBUH)
Like the Oscar statuettes, don't the plans belong solely to the architects and cannot be sold?
That elevation sheet is fantastic. It shows, among other things, how different (yet important) the scaled two-dimensional representation is in architecture-- compared to 3D representations from particular viewpoints.
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