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5 office lobby
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Shanghai tower's program is organized into 9 vertical zones.
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Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Architect: Bruce Graham of Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM)
Engineer: Myron Goldsmith
Structural Engineer: Fazlur R. Khan
Developer: Sears, Roebuck & Company
Built in: 1970 – 1974
Total Floors: 108
Height: 527.3m
Roof Height: 442.14m
Top Floor Height: 412.69m
Building Use: Commercial + Office
Design Concept

• This tower is designed as nine square “tubes” of 75x75 ft, clustered in a 3×3 matrix.
• This create a structure that appears to the eye created by a series of individual
towers joined ending at different heights.
• Each square has 5 columns per side spaced 15ft on centers, with adjacent squares
sharing columns.
• As the columns rise up the building, each square in the plan forms a tube, which can
be seen on exterior of the building.1
Floor Plans

1-50 floor
51-66 floor

67-90 floor 91-108 floor