The sun came up, revealing blackened, twisted towers of metal, fused into fantastic shapes.

On Sept. 17, 2001, the architect Richard Dattner sketched a linked pair of twisted towers, not quite as high as the originals.

A twisted tower wrapped in vines that writhed as they sucked the vapor from the rock.

Melegaunt cast a last, wistful look at the twisted towers of Dekanter, then spoke the words of his shadow walking spell.

Even with the cold orange light shining down from the twisted towers, he was unnerved walking through the empty district.

It was designed to withstand 80-mile-an-hour winds, but during a good gust, Mr. Hunter joked, the twisted tower "could thread itself into the ground."

The taller tower is more architecturally unique, appearing as a twisted tower narrowing toward the top.

Coop Himmelb(l)au proposes to place a pair of twisted towers, 603 feet tall, in front of the market hall.

He glared back at the twisted tower of Ashaba, glad to be free of it, and then turned and lumbered into the forest.

It was a fantastical shape of twisted towers, rising to one main tower that pointed slightly askew, like a knotty old finger.