I. Introduction The Willis Tower (originally known as the Sears Tower) was for years the tallest buildi ng in the world. The original planning and design did not envision this record as a goal to be achieved or as a parameter to guide design. Fazlur Khan’s design for Sears Roebuck not only met the client’s goal of consolidating its Chicago-area employees into one central location while allowing for anticipated company growth, but did so with an innovative and cost-saving bundled-tube structural
Willis (Sears) Tower The Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower is the tallest building in Chicago and one of its most popular tourist attractions. This is not surprising since it is one of the tallest buildings in the world at an amazing 110 stories, or 1,730 ft including the antenna on top (1,450 ft without the antenna). In fact, it held the title as the tallest building in the world from 1973 until 1998. Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan can all be seen from the observation
Champion: The Willis Tower 1973-1998 were the years when the Willis Tower (Sears Tower) was the tallest building in the world. It was ruling the sky for 25 years! The Willis Tower has a rich history, an interesting building structure, and is a tourist attraction for many. The Willis Tower was originally the Sears Tower when it was built in 1974. The Willis Tower is currently located in Chicago, IL. on S. Wacker Drive (Gallun, 2003). Let us go to the building when it was the Sears Tower, which was built
Willis Tower. According to Willis tower “Willis Tower is the premier corporate office building in Chicago, more than 100 companies including prominent law, insurance, transportation and financial services”.Willis Tower is the tallest building in the western hemisphere and the 8th tallest building in the world standing at 1,450 feet tall. Willis tower has more than 4.5 million square feet. Willis Tower has a glass viewing platform on the 103 rd floor that extends almost four and a half feet off of
Kuala Lumpur Tower: Welcome to the tallest structure in South-East Asia, the tallest single standing concrete structure and seventh tallest communication tower in the world - theKuala Lumpur Tower, or Menara Kuala Lumpur (in Malay).Completed in May, 1996 and acting as the country's main telecommunications and multimedia broadcasting tower, Menara Kuala Lumpur - or KL Tower - is perched atop Bukit Nanas and rises to a height of 421m (1403 ft); a highly visible and prestigious landmark . Bukit Nanas
Flights to Washington (WASA) The capital of the United States of America- Washington, formerly known as the District of Columbia is the 23rd-most populous city in the United States. Washington is a monumental city. These memorials, today, look beautiful, stunning, and just like a part of the landscape. Who would have guessed that their beginnings were often debateable? From the Lincoln Memorial to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, some fierce sparks were raised over how and why the USA should
Standing at a height of 541 metres, the One World Trade Centre is the tallest skyscraper in the United States. After the tragedy that happened on 11 September 2001, the collapse of the World Trade Centre caused the country to ‘come back stronger’, as signed by President Obama on one of the steel beams installed on the 104th floor of the building. The brand new, stunning design of the skyscraper now beautifies the skyline of the New York City. The owners of the magnificent structure are co-operated
Think in your mind the skyline of downtown Toronto. There's the CN Tower, and then 72-floor First Canadian Place, the city's tallest skyscraper, Cascading from there are the assorted banks and hotels and insurance towers. Now, use your imagination to build some new buildings, these ones reaching two, three, and four times higher than the others. Top it all with a skyscraper which is one mile high (three times as high as the CN Tower). Sound fanciful? yes it did 30 years ago when Frank Lloyd Wright
Chicago before they all go off to different universities. Two people who have no doubt that Ferris' story is false are his sister and the Ed Rooney, principal of his school. The gang take Cameron's father's car and go to a baseball game, visit the Sears tower, the Art Institute of Chicago, and a parade where Ferris jumps onto a parade float and lip syncs to a song that is playing and no one recognizes him or worries about it. At the end of the day, Ferris and Cameron attempt to roll back the odometer on
The amazing tower, built as and still traditionally regarded to as the Sears Tower, is a 108-story, 1,450-foot (442.1 m) high-rise in Chicago, Illinois, United States. At fulfillment in 1973, it transcend the World Trade Center towers in New York to become the giant building in the world, a merit held for nearly 25 years and persevered the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere until 2014 and the acquirement of a new building at the World Trade Center site. The structure is appraised an innovative