How 9/11 helped redesign today’s skyscrapers to make them safer | Architecture & Design

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Besides the problems posed by fires and damage on floors, and debris inside the stairways, people in both towers also faced issues with communication. The north tower�s public address system, which would have been used to make emergency announcements to t

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13 Sep 2021 • 6m read • View Author

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