
Camilo José Vergara, views of the World Trade Center
Top: View south from the Manhattan Bridge from Madison Street, Chinatown, 1970
Bottom: View from Exchange Place, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1978
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A Space Needle cutaway from 1962, Seattle
A zoomable (but not downloadable, apparently) version of this image, along with conceptual drawings and construction photos, are available from the University of Washington Libraries’ Digital Collections.
Empire State Building, Joe McNally for National Geographic
Van Alen’s evolution of the Chrysler Building, 1928-29, New York
Plus: how the spire was built.