Twin Towers

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For the Twin Towers that were the targets of attacks on September 11, 2001, see World Trade Center

The term Twin Towers refers to two tall structures with nearly identical characteristics and similar height.

Contents 1 Buildings 2 Books and movies 3 Sports 4 See also

[edit] Buildings

A number of complexes that consist of two tall structures, including:

Canada

• Bankers Hall in Calgary, standing at 197 metres, tallest twin buildings in Canada.
• Dome Tower and Home Oil Tower in Calgary.

Czech

• RKS Liblice 2 at Liblice. Two 355 metre tall guyed masts for mediumwave broadcasting 60 metre away from each other.

France

• Tours Société Générale. Two 167 metres tall towers, Headquarters of the Société Générale.

Germany

• Deutsche Bank Twin Towers in the famous banking district of Frankfurt.

India

• The Imperial in Mumbai. Upon completion, will be the world's tallest twin residential tower.

Malaysia

• Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, tallest buildings in the 20th century and currently the tallest twin towers.
• Berjaya Times Square in Kuala Lumpur, used for commercial purposes.

Spain

• Hotel Arts and Torre Mapfre in Barcelona, Puerta de Europa in Madrid.

Trinidad and Tobago

• Eric Williams Plaza in Port of Spain, which houses the offices of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago and the Ministry of Finance.
• Government Campus Plaza (Board of Inland Revenue and Customs and Exercise towers)

United Arab Emirates

• Deira Twin Towers in Dubai

United Kingdom

• Wembley Stadium in London, which had Twin Towers before being demolished in 2003.

United States

• World Trade Center in New York City, destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
• Time Warner Center also in New York City.
• Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, California.
• Twin Towers Middle School in Middletown, New York
• Oregon Convention Center
• Marina City

Venezuela 

• Parque Central Complex in Caracas, tallest twins towers in Latin America
• Centro Simon Bolivar in Caracas

[edit] Books and movies

• Twin Towers, a 2003 Oscar-winning documentary depicting the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.

• The Guide in The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy is published in a fictional twin towers on Ursa Minor Beta

[edit] Sports

• A nickname that was given to the basketball players Tim Duncan and David Robinson of the San Antonio Spurs, both approximately 7 feet tall and in the Spurs' starting lineup in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
• A nickname that was given to the basketball players Hakeem Olajuwon and Ralph Sampson, who played together for the Houston Rockets in the 1980s.
• A wrestling tag team in the World Wrestling Federation in the late 1980s of the wrestlers Ray Traylor and George Gray.

[edit] See also

• Tower array
• The Two Towers is the second volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.