All Exhibits. All Events. Archive Past Exhibits. Specialty Private tours Concierge. Host an event Venue rentals. This tour in Italian includes both historic and Modern skyscrapers…. Gallery 5 Items. Address S. Wacker Dr. Completion Date Neighborhood Loop. Use Type Commercial Office. Style Mid-Century Modernism. See This Building on a Tour. The building formerly, and sometimes still, known as Sears Tower In , Sears Roebuck and Company was the world's largest retailer, employing approximately , people across Chicago.
Phoebe Crisman is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where she teaches design studios and lectures on architectural theory, urbanism and sustainability. He works with pen and ink, watercolor, and graphite.
His subject matter of choice is architecture, architectural landscapes and cityscapes. Banks creates artwork for clients ranging from architects and builders to educational institutions, non-profit organizations, event planners as well as individual clients seeking to commission original art. Bill Muscat is an engineer. After asking this question and before Curious City started reporting an answer, he was hired by United Airlines, the largest tenant in the Willis Tower today.
And that means Bill now works in the Willis Tower, which is fine with him. He likes Gordon Gill's scenario of the building being maintained and adapted, and he especially likes thinking about all the technology that might be employed to make the building suitable for future Chicagoans.
I think the Willis Tower is that to me. Bill is also intrigued by the third scenario in which the Willis Tower is demolished to make from for something else. Follow her jmasengarb.
Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated who the current owners of the Willis Tower are, as of December The current owner is the Blackstone Group.
A clarification: Multiple readers pointed out that while many of Detroit's downtown skyscrapers were abandoned for decades, Detroit's downtown has become vibrant again, and may of those buildings have been, or are being, refurbished and reoccupied. This updated version of the story reflects this. Comments, questions or suggestions about this Curious City story or others are welcome at curiouscity wbez.
Subscribe to the podcast. Donate to WBEZ. The answer has to do with the fate of Chicago in Which makes our question, from engineer Bill Muscat, pretty challenging: What do we do in years when our current buildings are too old?
What's Next? So which one is it? The rigid outer walls act like the walls of a hollow tube. The Sears Tower is actually a bundle of nine tubes, and is considered one of the most efficient structures designed to withstand wind.
This is a great design for a skyscraper in Chicago, the "Windy City," where the average wind speed is 16 miles per hour. As the building climbs upward, the tubes begin to drop off, reducing the wind forces on the building.
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