CodeEnglishFrench1Thank you.2Thank you so much.3My name is Richard Gage, AIA.4I've been a practicing architect for 20 years56Let's take a look at World Trade Center 7 now.78It was not hit by an airplane!9101112Let's listen to this emergency worker:1314151617181920It's amazing.21Amazing, incredible, pick your word.22232425and I'm a member of the American Institute of Architects.It was 47 stories tall, what would have been thetallest building in 33 of our states.Let's take a look at the evidence of World TradeCenter 7and see how it stacks up against the typicalfeatures of a controlled demolition.Starting with "Is there a sudden onset of destruction?"We were watching the building, actually because itwas on fire. The bottom floors of the building wereon fire and uh, you know, we heard this sound thatsounded like a clap of thunder.[We] turned around and were shocked to see thatthe building was ah ... well it looked like there wasa shockwave ripping through the building and thewindows all busted out.It was horrifying. Then, you know, about a secondlater the bottom floor caved out and the buildingfollowed after that.And we saw the building crash down all the way tothe ground.Do we have a straight-down symmetrical collapseinto the buildings footprint?Let's listen to Dan Rather narrate this collapse for us as we take a first look at the collapse of Building 7.Now we're going to videotape the collapse of thisbuilding.For the third time today. It's reminiscent of thosepictures we've all seen too much on televisionbefore,when a building was deliberately destroyed bywell-placed dynamite to knock it down.Let's take a look at this side-by-side comparisonwith a known controlled demolition on the right.Did the building fall into it's own footprint? Prettymuch so.
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