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Work Record
Class [controlled]:
• architecture • Modern art
*Work
Type [link]: •
skyscraper
*Title/Name: Sears
Tower
*Creator
Display: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
(American, established 1939), for Sears Roebuck
and Company
*Role
[link]: architectural firm [link]:
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
*Role
[link]: client [link]: Sears Roebuck
and Company
*Creation
Date Display: completed in 1973
[controlled]: Earliest:
1973 Latest: 1973
*Subject
[links]: •
architecture • commerce • office space
• skyscrapers • office towers •
high-rise buildings
Culture [link]: American
*Current
Location [link]: 233
South Wacker Drive (Chicago, Illinois, United
States)
*Measurements:
height to the top of the roof: 442 m (1,450 feet);
height to the highest occupied floor 436 m (1,431
feet); 110 stories; 418,064 square m of office
and commercial space (4.5 million square feet)
[controlled] Extent: top
of roof Value: 442
Unit: m Type: height
| Extent: highest
occupied floor Value: 436
Unit: m Type: width
| Extent: stories
Value: 110
Type: count
| Extent: interior
space Value: 418,064
Unit: square
m Type: area
*Materials
and Techniques: steel frame, clad
in bronze-tinted glass and stainless aluminum
Material [links]: •
steel • glass • aluminum Technique:
[links]: • steel frame • glass
curtain wall
Description: Overlooks
the west side of Chicago's downtown Loop.
Required and recommended elements
are marked with an asterisk.
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