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Old Posted Jul 2, 2008, 10:14 PM
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Cool CHICAGO | Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) | 1,451 FT / 442 M | 108 FLOORS | 1974

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Awesome, I added one I just took a few minutes ago.

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classic beauty. from some angles it looks very ominous
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An American icon. Visiting this building for the first time in 1989 (I was five) was what got me interested in skyscrapers, so it holds a special place in my heart.
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An American icon.
I love it. Really.

But I think it failed to become a real icon.
I bet it's practically unknown outside the US or our circle.
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I love it. Really.

But I think it failed to become a real icon.
I bet it's practically unknown outside the US or our circle.
I agree, in France, most of people don't know this tower exists, they don't even visit Chicago, big mistake!

For me the Sears is The symbol of Chicago, I love it, here's a few pics I took:















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I agree, in France, most of people don't know this tower exists, they don't even visit Chicago, big mistake!

For me the Sears is The symbol of Chicago, I love it, here's a few pics I took:



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Good work Sandy.

This monster can create it's own clouds ala Mt Fuji but on a much smaller scale of course.

Or is that being given off the building itself? I am not sure in this pic but I have seen clouds develop and dissapear from the sears before.

Please correct me if I am wrong. Perhaps I am just insane.
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Actually thats exhaust from the building's ventilation system.
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I agree, in France, most of people don't know this tower exists, they don't even visit Chicago, big mistake!

For me the Sears is The symbol of Chicago, I love it, here's a few pics I took:

do they know anything about any building in the us or other countries?
or do they still think the eiffle tower is still the tallest like how people in new york still think the ESB is still the tallest.
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Old Posted Jul 27, 2008, 6:40 PM
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do they know anything about any building in the us or other countries?
or do they still think the eiffle tower is still the tallest like how people in new york still think the ESB is still the tallest.
No, they know that Eiffel Tower is a "small" contruction but a big one for Paris, IMO most of people think that the US have the tallest buildings because everything is the US is big (a US cliché in France, most of the time true compared to France, even if Paris has just decided to develop high contructions in La Défence, anyway it will be smaller than US buildings)

The average French just begins to visit the US since the dollar decreased (and because of affordable plane tickets these last 10 years), before that, it was reserved to high salaries or people who love so much this country that they have made savings during several years to be able to go there.
So the 1st place they want to see, is NYC or the west with National parks because for the French THIS is the US but I think it could change if the dollar keeps its low rate, they will probably want to see other cities as second trip then they'll know that the Sears tower is in Chicago.

And they see on TV that there's higher buildings and great projects elsewhere in the world, but they just don't remember that info a few weeks later! the 8 PM news is an institution in France, everybody watch it, there's many reports at the end of this program, on foreign events / projects... today there's a subject on the FBI, for the 100 years, honestly, did you know that?
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That would mean that the only icons that are known to the average person is just the ESB and the Eiffel Tower.
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That would mean that the only icons that are known to the average person is just the ESB and the Eiffel Tower.
Probably correct. ESB is the only iconic skyscraper in the world.
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Probably correct. ESB is the only iconic skyscraper in the world.
The CN Tower, Big Ben clock tower, the Roman Colloseum are posed as iconic buildins/structures in addition to those two, and the Freedom Tower which I suppose would be iconic.
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What's big and black and has white stuff shooting off the end? The Sears Tower of course!
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A true classic, I havent heard anyone who dislikes this building here at SSP. Its not perfect, far from a detailed masterpiece, but its just so right the way it is.

















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I've always been curious about something. Chicago is called the city of big shoulders. What does that mean exactly? I've always thought the Sears Tower itself looks like it has big shoulders. Those 90th floor setbacks, I mean. Has anyone ever read anything that suggested that was intentional?
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I've always been curious about something. Chicago is called the city of big shoulders. What does that mean exactly? I've always thought the Sears Tower itself looks like it has big shoulders. Those 90th floor setbacks, I mean. Has anyone ever read anything that suggested that was intentional?
LOL I know what you mean - the silhouette from the West (looking East) resembles a head & shoulders.

The quote is Carl Sandburg:

Hog Butcher for the World
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler,
Stormy, Husky, Brawling, and City of the Big Shoulders.


Sandburg is celebrating the role that brawn and labor played in the city's explosive rise in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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