Plexiglass Floor On Sears Tower

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Plexiglass floor on sears tower.

It was also the tallest building in the western hemisphere for 41 years until the new one world. Visitors to chicago s willis tower the city s tallest building captured video that appears to show cracks in the glass floor of its skydeck ledge 103 floors above ground. Video captured by a visitor shows the glass floor designed to give visitors the sensation of floating high about the windy city splintered into thousands of pieces. It is situated on the 103 rd floor of the building at a height of more than 412m 1350 feet above ground level.

Willis tower is the premier corporate office building in chicago home to more than 100 companies including prominent law insurance transportation and financial services. A 4 foot plexiglass extension that allows you to walk out of the building and feel as if you are suspended in mid air over the streets of chicago. The willis tower formerly and informally. The willis tower ex sears is set up quite nicely with a quick metal detector at before the ticket box office followed by the history of the construction and the continued process of keeping it green.

The willis tower skydeck is on the 103rd floor of what was at one time the world s tallest building. A willis tower. The incident occurred on the former sears tower s observation deck on the 103rd floor. At completion in 1973 it surpassed the world trade center in new york city to become the tallest building in the world a title that it held for nearly 25 years.

The iconic building is the second tallest in the western hemisphere encompassing more than 4 5 million square feet including its skydeck and 103rd floor glass viewing platform the ledge which attract more than 1 7. It was opened to public in june 1974. Visitors can feel the swaying of the tower on windy days. Tourists at chicago s willis tower were left terrified monday evening when glass coating cracked beneath visitors feet on the 103rd floor of the building s skydeck.

103rd floor on plexiglass awesome. The skydeck is an observation deck in the sears tower the highest such deck in the us. Sears tower its name until 2009 is a 110 story 1 450 foot 442 1 m skyscraper in chicago.