Firm Founded by Twin Towers Designer Folds Due to Heavy Debts

Some sad news coming out of Troy, Michigan this morning. The firm started by Minoru Yamasaki, who designed the World Trade Center’s twin towers in New York, has folded due to an overwhelming amount of debt the company had been carrying for the past few years. Yamasaki passed away more than twenty years ago now, but the firm had been kept alive by his partners. While things had gone on just fine for decades, the past few years saw both the financial collapse and the architecture industry taking huge hits, and to a lesser extent, the state of Michigan had continued on its long path of financial woes.