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The Franklin Center is a 60-story supertall skyscraper in the Loop neighborhood of downtown Chicago.Completed in 1989 as the AT&T Corporate Center to consolidate the central region headquarters of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T), [2] it stands at a height of 1,007 ft (307 m) and contains 1.7 million sq ft (160,000 m 2) of floor space. [3]
This building used the steel-frame method, innovated in Chicago. It was originally built with 10 stories, an enormous height in the 1800s, to a height of 138 feet (42 m). It was later expanded to 12 stories with a height of 180 feet (55 m). The building was demolished in 1931.
Tallest building west of the Mississippi River from 1989 to 2017. Tallest building constructed in the world in the 1980s. It was previously the tallest building in the world with a helipad on the roof. [59] [60] It is now third on that list behind China World Trade Center Tower III, and Guangzhou International Finance Center. Franklin Center ...
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New building regulations that came in force in 2020, limited the height of buildings on cities depending on population in China.Cities with less than 3 million population cannot have structures rising above 250 m (820 ft); cities with populations greater than 3 million can have buildings up to a height of 500 m (1,600 ft).
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Click here for more news on AOL.com CHICAGO (AP) - Rising from the ashes of 9/11, the new World Trade Center tower has punched above the New York skyline to reach its powerfully symbolic height of ...