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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 ...
March 2009 - The owners of the Sears Tower announce that the building will be renamed Willis Tower, after new tenant Willis Group Holdings (Willis Towers Watson as of 2015). July 2009 - The Sears ...
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 ...
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 ...
Its roof is 1,301 feet (397 m) high and its spire is 1,401 feet (427 m) above ground, making it the city's fifth-tallest building after One World Trade Center, Central Park Tower, 111 West 57th Street, and Willis Tower. One Vanderbilt's facade and design is intended to harmonize with Grand Central Terminal immediately to the east. The building ...
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The North Tower (1 WTC) stood at 1,368 feet (417 m), while the South Tower (2 WTC) was 1,362 feet (415 m) tall, then surpassed only by the Willis Tower at 1,450 feet (442 m). If they were still standing today, they would occupy the seventh and eighth positions on the list below, with their replacement—the new One World Trade Center—being ...
The Willis Tower may be both, but that is not the claim made, and even if it was it is not supported by that link. Moreover, the claims are inidentical and non-synchronous, and need to be made independently; it is the 3rd tallest in the U.S. (supportable by an appropriately labeled link); it may also be the tallest in its hemisphere (which ...