Willis Tower is no longer the tallest building in the world. But it’s still a trendsetter as it turns 50 this week.

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Willis Tower is no longer the tallest building in the world. But it’s still a trendsetter as it turns 50 this week.
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Along with the rest of downtown, Willis Tower has experienced ups and downs, including fears raised by the terrorist attacks of 2001 and the Great Recession

Willis Tower reflects the morning sunrise in downtown Chicago on April 26, 2023.On a windy spring day 50 years ago this week, John Porzuczek helped guide the final piece of steel into place on what was then known as Chicago’s Sears Tower.

Workers on top of the Sears Tower help steer the final beam to its resting place on May 3, 1973, in Chicago. Kathleen McCarthy, global co-head of Blackstone Real Estate, said she’s confident Willis Tower will continue thriving. Her company plunked down $1.3 billion for the building in 2015 and then spent“At 50, we all need a freshening up,” said Todd Heiser, co-managing director of Gensler, the renovation’s lead architectural firm.

“It’s like a tick-tack-toe board with nine cells,” Zils said. “It’s a much stiffer structure using much less material.”The new site for the Sears Tower as seen from 16 floors up looking east across Wacker Drive in Chicago on Dec. 22, 1969. “Sears was a very frugal operation that didn’t spend any extra money for anything,” Zils said. “They were not interested in being an innovator, they just wanted something that was rock solid.”

The work was sometimes punishing, especially in winter, Porzuczek said. The hard labor didn’t bother him.“I did not see him fall,” Porzuczek said of his friend and fellow crew member Jack De Klerk. On April 14, 1973, just three weeks before construction was complete, the two were sitting on a girder above the 100th floor about 25 feet apart when a sling used to raise steel beams caught the 28-year-old De Klerk and pulled him over.

As the sun rose, a gathering crowd of spectators was treated to an improbable sight: a man dressed as Spider-Man inching up the world’s tallest building. “I was hanging by one suction cup that was slipping and about to pop off,” Goodwin said. “I felt like an astronaut stepping out into space. Inside, I was super calm, collected and pretended I was right near the ground, but I wasn’t near the ground, I was 660 feet above it.”“Someone called down and said, ‘we got orders to let you go to the top because someone’s going to get killed here,’” Goodwin said. “And I thought, ‘yeah, me.

Its plans to expand into the upper floors were set aside. And after helping create modern downtown Chicago, the company then helped reverse the trend. In 1992, Sears moved to Hoffman Estates, joining other firms such as McDonalds and AT&T in choosing suburban office campuses. Chief dispatcher Brandon Caple at his desk, June 18, 2012 at the operations center for United Airlines in Willis Tower.

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