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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 ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
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. [29] 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 ...
Here’s some background information about Willis Tower, formerly the Sears Tower, located in Chicago. Facts. The Sears Tower was the world’s tallest building until 1996, when it was surpassed ...
The site is on the property of Colonial Williamsburg, a living history museum that tells the story of the capital of Britain's Virginia colony in the 18th century. Maps and documents from the time ...
May 11, 1976 (Arlington: Arlington: A boundary stone associated with Benjamin Banneker, (1731–1806), an African American surveyor, mathematician and astronomer who assisted Andrew Ellicott during the first two months of Ellicott's 1791–1792 survey of the boundaries of the original District of Columbia.
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 house is the successor to an earlier, one-story brick house built by the Willis family. [4] The land was patented in 1666 by Francis Willis, the first in the family to arrive in Virginia from Oxford, England. He served as a delegate from Gloucester County to the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1652. [3]