| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Chicago, Illinois, United States | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 1970-1973 (creation) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | en_US |
| dc.creator | Graham, Bruce | en_US |
| dc.creator | Khan, Fazlur R. | en_US |
| dc.date | 1970-1973 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-10T15:12:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-05-10T15:12:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1970-1973 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 215597 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 243 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/122972 | |
| dc.description | Close view of the building's base, southwest corner; The Sears Tower is a skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. It has been the tallest building in the United States since 1973, surpassing the World Trade Center, which itself had surpassed the Empire State Building only a year earlier. Commissioned by Sears, Roebuck and Company, it was designed by chief architect Bruce Graham and structural engineer Fazlur Khan of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Black bands appear on the tower around the 29th-32nd, 64th-65th, 88th-89th, and 104th-109th floors. These are louvers which allow ventilation for service equipment and obscure the structure's belt trusses which Sears Roebuck did not want to be visible as on the John Hancock Center. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 11/4/2007) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | steel; glass: dark tinted glass | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | architectural exteriors | en_US |
| dc.subject | business, commerce and trade | en_US |
| dc.subject | Modernist | en_US |
| dc.subject | International Style (modern European architecture style) | en_US |
| dc.title | Sears Tower | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A1-SOM-ST-B4 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | American | en_US |
| vra.technique | construction (assembling) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | office building | en_US |
| vra.worktype | skyscraper | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Bruce Graham (American architect, born 1925); Fazlur R. Khan (American structural engineer, 1929-1982); Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (American architectural firm, founded 1939) | en_US |
