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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 ...
[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] The second, third, and fourth-tallest buildings in Chicago are the Trump International Hotel & Tower, St Regis Chicago, and the Aon Center, respectively. Of the ten tallest buildings in ...
The Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex is a building complex in the community area of North Lawndale in Chicago, Illinois.The complex hosted most of department-store chain Sears' mail order operations between 1906 and 1993, and it also served as Sears' corporate headquarters until 1973, when the Sears Tower was completed.
The Sears Tower is now officially the Willis Tower. Willis is a British-based insurance agency that bought the naming rights some months The iconic skyscraper that it once called home.
Tower Fifth is a slender office tower proposed by 432 Park Avenue developer Harry B. Macklowe of Macklowe Properties. If built, it would become the 15th tallest in the world, as well as 2nd tallest in the Western Hemisphere. Tribune East Tower: Chicago: 1,442 ft (440 m) 118 2027 Would become the second-tallest building in Chicago upon completion.
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). The Burj Khalifa broke the height record in all four categories for completed buildings.
1994 - Sears, Roebuck & Company sells the building to reduce its debt. 1996 - The Petronas Twin Towers surpass the Sears Tower in height to become the world’s tallest buildings at 1,483 feet each.
Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears (/ s ɪər z / SEERZ), [6] is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail-order catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. [7]