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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Chicago, Illinois, United Statesen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1970-1973 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorSkidmore, Owings & Merrillen_US
dc.creatorGraham, Bruceen_US
dc.creatorKhan, Fazlur R.en_US
dc.date1970-1973en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-10T15:12:27Z
dc.date.available2013-05-10T15:12:27Z
dc.date.issued1970-1973en_US
dc.identifier215598en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 243en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/122973
dc.descriptionDetail of 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.mediumsteel; glass: dark tinted glassen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectbusiness, commerce and tradeen_US
dc.subjectModernisten_US
dc.subjectInternational Style (modern European architecture style)en_US
dc.titleSears Toweren_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-SOM-ST-B5en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypeoffice buildingen_US
vra.worktypeskyscraperen_US
dc.contributor.displayBruce Graham (American architect, born 1925); Fazlur R. Khan (American structural engineer, 1929-1982); Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (American architectural firm, founded 1939)en_US


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