Twin Towers

Twin Towers may refer to:

In architecture:

  • Deira Twin Towers, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Deutsche Bank Twin Towers, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Guangzhou Twin Towers, Guangzhou, China
  • Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Twin Tower, a 1970s Hong Kong residential block design
  • Twin Towers Correctional Facility, Los Angeles, California
  • Twin Towers (Ramat Gan), two identical offices buildings in Ramat Gan, Israel
  • Wembley Stadium (1923), London, England (demolished)
  • World Trade Center, New York City, United States (destroyed on September 11, 2001)

In film:

  • 9/11: The Twin Towers, a 2006 television special documentary film
  • Twin Towers (film), a 2003 Oscar-winning documentary

In sports:

  • Twin Towers (Houston Rockets), front court consisting of Ralph Sampson and Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Twin Towers (San Antonio Spurs), front court consisting of Tim Duncan and David Robinson
  • Twin Towers (wrestling team), a former professional wrestling tag team consisting of Akeem and the Big Boss Man

Famous quotes containing the words twin and/or towers:

    “We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “Even great towers start at ground level.”
    —Chinese proverb.