Of course a lot of these were still in twisted ruins, which gave Daniel Grant's sky- scraper the edge.

While the 10 percent of the city that had been ravaged by the recent earthquake still lay in twisted ruins, the eyes of visitors were redirected to the new.

I have stood at ground zero, stunned by the twisted ruins of the largest human structure ever destroyed in a catastrophic moment.

The bridge had become a scene out of Dante's Inferno: fire and smoke and twisted ruins everywhere.

"The crew needs their pilot," John gestured at the twisted ruins of the ship they stood in.

He climbed, following the path through the twisted ruins from memory.

Dozens were killed instantly and more than six hundred workers, many of them women and children, were trapped in the twisted ruins.

The twisted ruins of a hundred-foot Schwinn lay a quarter of a mile away, one forty-foot wheel spinning slowly.

I walked back to the splintered and twisted ruins of her old conservatory, with glass splitting and snapping beneath my feet, and I called out: 'Mrs Thompson?'

A light blanket of snow lay everywhere, mantling the twisted ruins of the city.