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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 ...
Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) was the highest in the final category: the greatest height to top of antenna of any building in the world at 527 m (1,729 ft). Burj Khalifa broke the height record in all four categories for completed buildings.
English: This diagram shows height to tip of the tallest structural elements in each building. If measured from the ground to the highest attached component, the Burj Khalifa is the tallest in the world, followed by the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower), but as the antennas are not actually structural; they aren't considered part of the building, and the Willis Tower building itself is ...
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The tallest building in the city is the 110-story Willis Tower (also known as the Sears Tower), which rises 1,451 feet (442 m) in the Chicago Loop and was completed in 1974. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Sears Tower was the tallest building in the world upon its completion, and remained the tallest building in the United States until May 10, 2013. [ 4 ]
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English: The tallest buildings in the world, listed from 1908 (when the Singer Building opened) through 1974 (when the Sears Tower overtook the World Trade Center as tallest), all in New York City. 1908: Singer Building (187 m) 1909: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower (213 m) 1913: Woolworth Building (241 m) 1930 (April): 40 Wall Street ...
Formerly known, and still commonly referred to, as the Sears Tower. It was the tallest building in the world from 1974 until 1998. It is the third-tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and the 26th-tallest building in the world. [7] [8] 4 111 West 57th Street: New York City: United States 435 (1,428) 84 2021 Also known as Steinway Tower.