Standard height: 442 meters (1451ft) Total height: 527 meters (1729ft)Īrchitect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Developer: Sears Holding Corp Willis Tower at nightīuilt in 1973 as Sears Tower, the tower was the world's tallest building from 1973 to 1998, and was the tallest in America from 1973 to 2014. It is the only city that can be regarded as Concrete Jungle in America with the exception of New York City.īelow is a list of the tallest buildings in Chicago, the buildings are at least 300 meters or 984ft by standard height. And 7 over 300 meters (by standard height) built or topped out. The amount of buildings over 300 meters by roof height in Chicago were always ahead of the other cities in America, including New York City before 2016, at that time Chicago had 4 such high buildings, much more than that of New York, which had only one building with a roof height higher than 300 meters by the same time.Īs of 2019, Chicago has 31 buildings over 200m in height built, the amount is only second to that of New York City in North America. The Central Park Tower in New York City surpassed its roof height in August 2019, but the construction will not complete until 2020. As of 2019, Sears Tower (now called Willis Tower) still ranks number one among all the completed skyscrapers in America by roof height. However, both One World Trade Center and Petronas Towers are shorter than Sears Tower by roof height, which is a measurement that more favored by the majority of skyscraper enthusiasts.
There were already 3 skyscrapers beyond 300 meters (984ft) by roof height existing as early as 1970s, among them the Sears Tower had been the tallest building in the world for many decades until in 1997 when Petronas Towers' spires surpassed it, and had been the tallest in America for a longer time until in 2012 when One World Trade Center's antenna surpassed it.
Chicago is the birthplace of skyscrapers, and also a renowned concrete jungle that is filled with dozens of skyscrapers.
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