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The Willis Tower, originally and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110-story, 1,451-foot (442.3 m) skyscraper in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Designed by architect Bruce Graham and engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), it opened in 1973 as the world's tallest ...
SAS i-tower : Hyderabad India: 480,000 561 171 36 2023 [4] USAA Corporate Headquarters San Antonio, Texas United States: 476,000 50 15.25 4 1976 15,000 The Exchange 106: Kuala Lumpur Malaysia: 453,835 1,462 445.5 95 2019 Willis Tower: Chicago United States: 416,000 1,451 442 108 1974 ~15,000 [5] Petronas Twin Towers: Kuala Lumpur Malaysia ...
The Willis Building is a commercial skyscraper in London named after the primary tenant, Willis Group. It is located on Lime Street in the City of London financial district. The building was designed by Norman Foster and developed by British Land. It stands opposite the Lloyd's building and is 125 metres (410 ft) tall, with 26 storeys. It ...
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Willis secured the naming rights effective July 2009 as part of its agreement to lease 140,000 square feet (13,000 m 2) of space in the 3,800,000-square-foot (350,000 m 2) tower. [14] It is the tallest building in the U.S. and was the tallest building in the world from 1974 until 1998, when it was surpassed by the Petronas Towers in Kuala ...
Bruce Graham firmly believed that architecture like dance and music were a combination of structure and beauty. He believed that these forms of art represented the highest achievements of culture. Like other forms of Art, Graham believed that architecture was a result and a reflection of the morals of the culture in which it was built. [8]
The Willis Building was commissioned by John Roscoe, chairman of Willis, Faber & Dumas, in the early 1970s. [3] The architectural firm of Norman Foster was selected after a shortlist was provided by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Foster's design, inspired by a glass-clad office building he had recently completed, featured innovative ...
Willis Building may refer to: Willis Building (London), a skyscraper in London; Willis Building, Ipswich, a low-rise office building in Ipswich, Suffolk; Willis Tower, a skyscraper in Chicago formerly called the Sears Tower