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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 ...
The supertall structure has the same name and roof height as the North Tower of the original World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The new skyscraper stands on the northwest corner of the 16-acre (6.5 ha) World Trade Center site, on the site of the original 6 World Trade Center.
The original One World Trade Center (also known as the North Tower, Tower 1, Building One, or 1 WTC) was one of the Twin Towers of the original World Trade Center complex in New York City. It was completed in 1972, stood at a height of 1,368 feet (417 m), and was the tallest building in the world until 1973, when surpassed by the Sears Tower in ...
CHICAGO (AP) -- The tallest building in America is getting a new name. Chicago's Sears Tower will be renamed Willis Tower after London-based Willis Group Holdings. The insurance broker announced ...
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311 South Wacker Drive is a post-modern 65-story skyscraper located in Chicago, Illinois, and completed in 1990.At 961 feet (293 m) tall, it is the ninth-tallest building in Chicago and the 36th tallest in the United States.
Chicago, Illinois (WGN) - The Willis Tower has a new owner. The Blackstone Group is a private real estate investment team. Blackstone Real Estate Partners VII agreed to pay $1.3 billion for the tower.
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 ...