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	Sears Tower :: 233 South Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois, United States :: Glass Steel and Stone
		Sears Tower was the last supertall building constructed during the International architecture period, and SOM's interpretation of the style is remarkably bold and awe-inspiring.
		Sears Tower, alongside John Hancock Center and the Standard Oil Building, were the epitome of the Chicago skyscraper craze during the latter half of the 20th century -- a time when the Chicago economy was booming and tall buildings were a sign of commercial strength and success.
		Sears Tower is perfectly reminiscient of a thriving, innovative period in Chicago architectural history.
	glasssteelandstone.com /BuildingDetail/375.php (1141 words)

	Welcome to Sears Tower (Chicago, Illinois)
		Sears Tower, alongside John Hancock Center and Amoco Building, was the epitome of the Chicago skyscraper craze during the latter half of the 20th century — a time when the American economy was booming and tall buildings were a sign of commercial strength and success.
		To meet the growing demands of the digital age, Sears Tower was upgraded March 8 of 2000 with four combination antennas, each 29.4-feet, 2890-lbs mounted on 80-foot towers at the four corners of the roof.
		As of 2007, Sears Tower remains the tallest skyscraper in the western hemisphere and the largest commercial-use office building (in rentable square footage) in the United States.
	www.searstower.org /home.html (0 words)

	Sears Tower Summary
		Sears began moving its offices out of the Sears Tower in 1993 and had completely moved out by 1995, moving to a new office campus in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.
		The Sears Tower is the tallest office building in the United States, and it retains the world record when measuring the height from the sidewalk level of the main entrance to the top of the antenna.
		The Sears Tower's ZIP Code, 60606, was a catalyst of various apocalypse-related rumors surrounding the date June 6, 2006 (also 06/06/06) - a play on 666, the Number of the Beast.
	www.bookrags.com /Sears_Tower (1926 words)

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		The Sears Tower is actually a bundle of nine tubes, and is considered one of the most efficient structures designed to withstand wind.
		The Sears Tower Conference Center is a state-of-the-art facility where guests may meet and host associates in an environment of comfort and elegance.
		Sears has a series of pumps and tanks located in the basement, the 31st floor, the 64th floor, and the 88th floor.
	www.lycos.com /info/sears-tower.html (438 words)

	Chicago 101
		Sears may not embrace its own street corner or embody the city's personality the way the Hancock Tower does, as Kamin writes, but I like its various "big shoulders" and its stark, unembellished profile in a city known for both its stocky build and Midwestern understatement.
		Sears, in short, is more a triumph of engineering than of architecture, a building that is admired more for achieving great heights than for its ability to translate its structural bravura into sky-high drama.
		Sears Tower is a triumph of ingenuity and innovation reflecting Chicago's and America's strength, vision, and tradition of architectural excellence.
	chicago.freeservers.com /index/sears/sears.html (933 words)

	Sears Tower, Chicago
		Sears Tower was topped out on May 3, 1973, surpassing One World Trade Center as the world's tallest building.
		This is not the original Sears Tower; the previous headquarters of Sears Roebuck was a vast building on Chicago's West Side that included the Sears Merchandise Building Tower.
		The tower has a pressure lock (like an airlock) at the freight entrance to combat the 'stack effect' generated by the differential in air pressure caused by cold air meeting warm air in the building.
	www.emporis.com /en/wm/bu/?id=117064 (0 words)

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		When the idea of building the Sears Tower was considered, in the late 1960s, the Sears Roebuck and Company had a income of almost $450 million each year.
		Sears had businesses with thirteen other countries in the world, Sears also had 355,000 employees working at 826 retail stores, 11 catalog plants, and 2,100 sales offices plus independent catalog stores.
		If the Sears Tower's floor space was lain out on one level, it would cover 101 acres, (16 city blocks in Chicago) In the building, there are 25 miles of plumbing, 1,500 miles of electric wiring, 80 miles of elevator cable, and 145,000 light fixtures.
	library.thinkquest.org /J001664/SearsTower.html (329 words)

	Skittish Office Workers Leave Sears Tower
		A spokesman for the downtown Sears Tower said the rumor was utterly false, likening it to a false bomb threat.
		The Sears Tower measures 1,454 feet to the highest point on its roof.
		The world's tallest buildings, The Petronas Towers [in fact they are the tallest in only one category, tallest building including spires; the Sears has the highest occupied floor and is the tallest building including antenna; the CN tower is the world's tallest structure] in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, measure 1,483 feet in height.
	www.innogize.com /searstower.html (262 words)

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		The stepback geometry of the 110-story tower was developed in response to the interior space requirements of Sears, Roebuck and Company.
		Sears Tower was not the only deal going down in town.
		After all, on the day of 9/11, the Sears Tower was immediately evacuated as a blindingly obvious precaution.
	www.lycos.com /info/sears--sears-tower.html (524 words)

	BUILDING BIG: Databank: Sears Tower
		The Sears Tower is actually a bundle of nine tubes, and is considered one of the most efficient structures designed to withstand wind.
		The Tower's heavy weight -- more than 440 million pounds -- is also supported by 114 piles sunk deep into the earth so that they stand firmly on hard, solid bedrock.
		The Sears Tower contains enough concrete to build an eight-lane, five-mile-long highway, enough steel to build 50,000 automobiles, and enough telephone wiring to wrap around the world 1.75 times.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/sears_tower.html (0 words)

	Sears Tower - Chicago - Reviews of Sears Tower - TripAdvisor
		"The Sears Tower was the..." VirtualTourist.com, Aug 26, 2002
		"The Sears Tower - one of the..." VirtualTourist.com, Aug 25, 2002
		"The Sears Tower, formerly the..." VirtualTourist.com, Aug 25, 2002
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	Chicago Sports Travel » Blog Archive » The Sears Tower and The Sears Tower Skydeck
		The Sears Tower, a monumental $150 million architectural feat, was designed by architect Bruce Graham in 1970 and completed in 1973.
		With two twin towers, it stands 1,450 – 1,730 feet high, including the main roof and the roof of the elevator penthouse, the highest that was allowed by the FAA at the time.
		The Skydeck observatory at 1,353 feet on the 103rd floor of the Sears Tower, a few seconds’ elevator ride to the top, offers a spectacular view through high-powered telescopes of the city, Lake Michigan, and a 40 to 50 mile panorama of four states, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
	www.chicago-sports-travel.com /the-sears-tower-and-the-sears-tower-skydeck (488 words)

	Sears Tower - Bruce Graham/ SOM - Great Buildings Online
		The stepback geometry of the 110-story tower was developed in response to the interior space requirements of Sears, Roebuck and Company.
		Towers have historically been not only the pride of their temporary owners, but of their cities as well.
		Sears is very direct in its structural solution, a new concept of cluster tubes, originally fifteen, reduced to nine when the hotel was eliminated from the plan.
	www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Sears_Tower.html (0 words)

	Sears Tower, Chicago
		At the time the Sears tower was constructed in 1974, it was the world's tallest building, eclipsing New York's twin-towered World Trade Center by 26 meter.
		With the construction of the 508m high Taipei 101 tower in 2004 this discussion became irrelevant.
		Anyhow, the Sears tower is still the tallest Chicago skyscraper, exceeding the height of the number 2,
	www.aviewoncities.com /chicago/searstower.htm (243 words)

	[SEARS TOWER]
		Sears Tower ownership has announced it has selected U.S. Equities Asset Management, LLC as the exclusive leasing and management company for the property.
		A triumph of ingenuity and innovation, Sears Tower stands tall among the Chicago skyline.
		Standing at 1,450 feet and 110 stories high, Sears Tower is the tallest building in North America and the third tallest building in the world.
	www.thesearstower.com /index.html (146 words)

	Sears Tower - Wikinfo
		The Sears Tower is a skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois.
		When completed, the Sears Tower had overtaken the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York as the world's tallest building, with 110 stories rising to 443 metres (1454 feet).
		The Sears Tower remains the tallest office building in the United States and retains the world record when measuring the height from the sidewalk level of the main entrance to the top of antenna.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Sears_Tower (982 words)

	Chicago Hotels: Sears Tower Skydeck
		Sears Tower Skydeck has many hotels located within 5 miles.
		Sears Tower stands tall, over 1700ft aloft, overlooking the west side of Chicago's downtown Loop.
		Clad in bronze-tinted glass and stainless aluminum, rising with determination yet elegance from the depths of its grand foundations to the tips of its massive spires, luring tourists in daze, housing a workforce of thousands, Sears Tower represents an era in Chicago of optimism and opportunity that will not be forgotten.
	www.roomrate.com /chicago/attractions/searsTower.asp (180 words)

	Sears Tower - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sears Tower - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Sears Tower, skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, that when it was built was the tallest inhabited building in the world.
		Tower of London, historic fortress in the city of London, on the north bank of the River Thames.
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	Sears Tower - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sears Tower, skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, that when it was built was the tallest inhabited building in the world.
		The influence of America was strongly felt in Europe, where Mies van der Rohe produced a spectacular scheme for an all-glass skyscraper in 1920....
		Tower of London, historic fortress in the city of London, on the north bank of the River Thames.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Sears_Tower.html (101 words)

	Education World ® - Lesson Planning: World's Tallest Buildings!
		The Sears Tower is in Chicago, a city that while not exceedingly polluted, does have its share of urban grime.
		The 1,454-foot Sears Tower remained the world's tallest building for 23 years, when it was surpassed by the 1,483-foot tall Petronas Twin Towers in the Malaysian capital city Kuala Lumpur, although there is some debate (mostly sparked by people who live in Chicago!) about which building is actually the taller of the two.
		Although the Petronas Towers are higher, thanks to their 246-foot spires, the towers' 88 occupied floors, which rise to 1,229 feet, fall far short of the Sear Towers 110 stories, which rise to 1,431 feet.
	www.education-world.com /a_lesson/lesson062.shtml (1876 words)

	Sears Tower Skydeck, Chicago
		Until 1996, when the Petronas Tower was built in Kuala Lumpur, the 110 story Sears Tower was the world's tallest office block.
		The Sears Tower was designed by Bruce Graham for at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill and took three years to build.
		Sears Tower in Chicago, IL was world's tallest building from 1974-1996.
	www.planetware.com /chicago/sears-tower-skydeck-us-il-696.htm (194 words)

	WebWire \| Original Sears Tower Celebrates 100 Years
		However the idea for the Sears Tower originated in 1906 with the construction of the Sears Catalog Plant.
		The Original Tower was made famous years before the current Sears Tower.
		Located about four miles west of the current Sears Tower, the structure is a national landmark reaching fourteen stories (225 ft).
	www.webwire.com /ViewPressRel.asp?aId=17570 (411 words)

	Sears Tower
		(Interestingly, the tower deviates some 10cm from vertical due to this asymmetrical loading of the foundation.) This novel structural system allows the tower to reach heights of 413m at the highest habitable floor, 442m at the roof, and since the addition two high definition television antennas in 1982, 527m at the very top.
		In all, the Sears Tower used about 69 million kgs of steel and weighs a total of 200 million kgs – a superlative efficiency of materials for such a tall building in the “Windy City”.
		For the Sears Tower, steel sections of 5m x 8m in size, or about three horizontal bays and two stories high, were especially prefabricated in the controlled environment of a shop so that, among other considerations, all critical welds could be formed horizontally.
	www.allaboutskyscrapers.com /sp.sears_tower.htm (823 words)

	Sears Tower
		The Sears Tower is 1,454 feet tall, and even taller (1707 ft.) when you include its twin antennas, that are each over two hundred feet tall.
		When the Sears Tower was finished being built, it was filled with about twelve thousand workers.
		The Sears Tower has a steel frame which is surrounded in bronze tinted glass and stainless aluminum.
	library.thinkquest.org /J002846/b_sears.htm (154 words)

	Sears Tower
		Of course, Sears itself has since moved to a more human-scale suburban setting leaving the tower partly vacant on several occasions due to a downtown real estate depression.
		Today, however, downtown property markets are thriving; likewise Sears Tower has (again) become one of Chicago's most prestigious buildings, recently acquired from AEW Capital Management by TrizecHahn, a REIT (real estate investment trust) firm.
		To meet the growing demands of the digital age, Sears Tower was upgraded March 8 of 2000 with four combination antennas, each 29.4ft, 2890lb mounted on 80ft towers at the four corners of the roof.
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		The Sears Tower is located on the west side of Chicago's downtown loop.
		The Sears Tower is made of bronze tinted glass and stainless aluminum.
		The Sears Tower covers two city blocks and has 101 acres (4.4 million square feet) of office and commercial space.
	www.d131.kane.k12.il.us /giftedht/jesus/searstower.html (279 words)

	Sears Roebuck Tower 16 Camera (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Tower 16 camera was sold by Sears Roebuck and Company, and manufactured by Mamiya Camera Company of Tokyo, Japan.
		The Tower 16 is identical to the Mamiya-16 Super subminiature camera except for the name.
		The only apparent differences are the engravings of the model name, and on the Mamiya camera, a front engraving gives the name of the lens as: Cute (yes, that is the name).
	www.vintagephoto.tv /tower16.shtml (441 words)

	Sears Tower — FactMonster.com
		Constructed from 1970 to 1974 for Sears, Roebuck and Co., it rises 110 stories to a height of 1,450 ft (442 m); the 253 ft (77 m) television antenna topping it makes it the world's third largest freestanding structure at 1,703 ft (519 m).
		The Sears Tower has an exterior of fl aluminum and bronze-toned glass cut by fl bands.
		Petronas Towers - Petronas Towers Petronas Towers, twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, that are the...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/us/A0844218.html (214 words)

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