high-rise building
Temporary the world's tallest building at 1450 ft consists of nine framed steel tubes, each 75 ft × 75 ft in section. This bundled tube design removes the necessity for the stiffening diagonals found in the Hancock Building. The tubes stop at different elevations, and in this slide the tallest tubes are in cloud.
Sears Tower
building type
involved parties
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (architecture)
address
- United States of America
- Staat
- Illinois
- state
- Cook County
- county
- Chicago
- city
- 233 South Wacker Drive
- street
map/aerial view
time line
| period | description |
|---|---|
| 1973–1974 | planning and construction period |
description
Wikipedia article
data
| description | amount/size |
|---|---|
| height 1453 feet |
ca. 450, m |
keywords
reference
- The Sears Tower
B. S. Glassman, C. A. Doherty, K. M. Doherty
Blackbirch Marketing; 1995
- Website des Sears Tower Chicago
http://www.sears-tower.com
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article in: Chicago
S. Visalli, B. Kurtis
Kohlhammer; 1992
page 81
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article in: SOM Architektur von Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1963-1973
Hatje Verlag; 1974
page 174ff
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article in: The Structural Architecture of Chicago
M. Bunji
Books Nippan; 1992
page 100ff
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