1972 | Architecture, Real Estate
Architecture, Real Estate
New York's World Trade Center opens its first offices in one of two 110-story towers designed by Troy, Mich., architect Minoru Yamasaki, 58. Soaring 1,368 feet (118 feet higher than the 1,250-foot Empire State Building of 1931), the Trade Center will remain the world's tallest building until 1974. Tenants of offices on lower floors move in even as work continues on the upper floors.
San Francisco's pyramid-shaped Transamerica Corp. building is completed to designs by William L. Pereira Associates. The 48-story tower dominates the city's skyline.
The median sales price of a new one-family U.S. home is $29,700, and 64.4 percent of Americans own their own homes.