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Sears Tower
A community portal about Sears Tower with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Sears Tower is a skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, and the tallest building in the USA. Commissioned by Sears, Roebuck and Company, it... [more]
A community portal about Sears Tower with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Sears Tower is a skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, and the tallest building in the USA. Commissioned by Sears, Roebuck and Company, it was designed by chief architect Bruce Graham and structural engineer Fazlur Khan of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill.
As the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere readies itself for a major energy efficiency overhaul, engineers have developed what may be the world's tallest green roof.
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Beautiful as our architecture is here in Chicago, a lot of it wasn't built with the green, LEED-happy practices we use today. Fortunately, there's been movement toward revising some of those negatives, as Julie Wernau reports in her piece about architect Sara Beardsley's efforts to turn the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) totally green. The project, which would make the US's tallest building energy efficient, is through local super...
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A treasure on Chicago's west side is highlight in this piece from last month from Chicago Tonight. Originally built in 1906, this was the original home of Sears when they were known as an important mail order business. Just like people are crazy about Wal-Mart today, people were crazy about Sears enough to come down to the original corporate headquarters and visit the original tower.Unfortunately the neighborhood around Sears gradually...
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"This shiny, glass-sheathed tower -- the seventh tallest building in the world, the tallest in America since the 1974 completion of Sears Tower and the tallest structure its height-obsessed developer has ever built -- meets the ground superbly and touches the sky weakly."...
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