Plexiglass Floor On Sears Tower

Review of skydeck chicago.

Plexiglass floor on sears tower.

Sears tower its name until 2009 is a 110 story 1 450 foot 442 1 m skyscraper in chicago. The glass bottomed sky ledge on the 103rd floor of chicago s willis tower cracked on monday night after a woman and her two children stepped out onto it pictures. The willis tower formerly and informally. Willis tower is the premier corporate office building in chicago home to more than 100 companies including prominent law insurance transportation and financial services.

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. 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. Not content with having the tallest building in america the owners of sears tower in chicago have installed glass box viewing platforms which stick out of the building 103 floors up. 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 skydeck is an observation deck in the sears tower the highest such deck in the us. Sears willis tower skydeck gives you a incredible views. 103rd floor on plexiglass awesome. The incident occurred on the former sears tower s observation deck on the 103rd floor.

It was opened to public in june 1974. It was also the tallest building in the western hemisphere for 41 years until the new one world. 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 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.

A willis tower. Visitors can feel the swaying of the tower on windy days. It is situated on the 103 rd floor of the building at a height of more than 412m 1350 feet above ground level.