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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 ]
Wilshire Grand Center is a 1,100-foot (335.3 m) skyscraper in the financial district of downtown Los Angeles, California, occupying the entire city block between Wilshire Boulevard and 7th, Figueroa, and Francisco streets. Completed in 2017, it is the tallest building (if including the spire) in the United States west of Chicago.
The building consists of two towers: a 60-story Main Tower and an 11-story Auxiliary Tower. At 570 feet (174 m), the Main Tower claims its place among the 50 tallest buildings in Chicago . The building is considered the "final work" by respected Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and designer Fazlur Rahman Khan . [ 1 ]
A building is not, of course, a living thing. Unless it is the place you live or work or visit with some regularity, you likely take most of the city’s thousands of buildings for granted. Of ...
The Michigan–Wacker Historic District is a National Register of Historic Places District that includes parts of the Chicago Loop and Near North Side community areas in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The district is known for the Chicago River, two bridges that cross it, and eleven high rise and skyscraper buildings erected in the 1920s. [3]
1905 Chicago Federal Building, Henry Ives Cobb; 1906 Sears Merchandise Building Tower, George G. Nimmons - William K. Fellows; 1907 Marshall Field and Company Building, south State Street building D.H. Burnham & Company, Charles B. Atwood; 1909 Robie House, Prairie School, Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House (1909)
The two towers are of differing heights, with the south tower rising to 30 stories and the north tower to 21 stories. On the south tower is a clock with faces pointing in all directions. Each face is 19 feet 7 inches (5.97 m) in diameter. The building is clad in glazed terra-cotta, which provides its gleaming white façade. On occasion, the ...
200 South Wacker Drive is a high-rise office building located in Chicago, Illinois.Construction of the building began in 1979 and was completed in 1981. Harry Weese Associates designed the building, which has 41 stories and stands at a height of 500 ft (152m), making it the 92nd tallest building in Chicago.