The World Trade Centre was an 89-metre (292 ft), 19 storey building in the Canary Wharf area of London, England, built in 1991. The building was heavily damaged by an IRA bomb on February 9, 1996. The top four floors were demolished and after a proposal called World Trade Centre London to redevelop it as offices was cancelled following September 11, 2001, the frame was reclad and it became the Hilton Canary Wharf.[1]
See also
editNotes and references
edit- ^ Hospitality Design: HD. Bill Communications, Incorporated. July 2006. p. 112.
External links
edit- CNN: IRA claims responsibility for London bombing
- BBC News - IRA Bombing, On This Day, February 10, 1996.
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