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No, the WTC did not overwhelm by height, but by bulk. They were twin featureless monoliths that blotted out the entire sky if you were anywhere in lower Manhattan, and appared as two absurd out-of-scale children's toy models of square blocks from further away.
The horrific architecture and overbearing bulk of scale ruination were decried quite accurately when the monoliths appeared in the 70's. People gradually got used to them, but they were monstrocities of size and boredom that had little to do with thier height alone, and bore no relation to other towering structures of the world.
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