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  • ISSUE #21: Twins
  • 29.09.11
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  • Sam Jacob &
  • Jack Self
  • There is another allegorical significance to the 9/11 event: the fact that the towers were twins. Originally Yamasaki designed one mega-tower, but was forced to ‘twain (twin) it’ producing two half-towers. The genetic information of the original was duplicated, but in fact the total identity was divided. Thus ‘the twin’ possesses a strange status: simultaneously an independent and codependent entity.

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