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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 ...
By about 1968, the production of Girder and Panel sets had stopped and did not start up again until about 1974, when Kenner, then owned by General Mills, produced the larger 1,100-piece Sears Tower set #72001 with black girders and panels, which could make a 5-foot-tall (1.5 m) model of the Sears Tower.
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.
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.
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The John Hancock Tower, on the southeast corner of Copley Square, is a 60-story, 790 ft (240 m) skyscraper. It was designed by Henry N. Cobb of I. M. Pei & Partners and was completed in 1976. [ 9 ] In 1977, the American Institute of Architects presented the firm with a National Honor Award for the building, and in 2011 conferred on it the ...
A 1,776-foot-tall skyscraper, initially called the 'Freedom Tower,' was pitched as the new One World Trade Center (a title formerly held by the north tower). A ground-breaking ceremony was held ...
World's Tallest TV Tower: Building one of the world's tallest TV towers, the Guangzhou Sightseeing and TV Tower (now called the Canton Tower: 2011-02-11 on 7mate [1] 05 Taiwan: Ecoark: 2011-03-27 06 South Korea: Korean Superlink: Busan-Geoje Fixed Link: 2011-11-17