The Willis Tower In 150 Years: Adapted, Demolished or Abandoned?

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🗓️ 18 December 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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What will happen to the Willis Tower in 150 years? In this special Curious City presentation, producer Jesse Dukes and the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Jen Masengarb envision three future scenarios for the iconic skyscraper, and for the Chicago of 2166. Click here for the full story.

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0:00.0	When we're the...
0:03.0	What schools?
0:06.0	Who decides what the next...
0:08.0	Where's that story?
0:09.0	Why they keep the look?
0:11.0	What is this?
0:13.0	It's a curious city.
0:15.0	Where WBEZ answers your questions about Chicago, the region, and its people.
0:20.0	Hello, I'm Jen Mason Garb, Director of Interpretation and Research at the Chicago Architecture
0:24.3	Foundation. And I'm Jesse Dukes, radio producer at Curious City. And we're answering a question
0:30.0	about Chicago's future. In 150 years, what does Chicago do with the Willis Tower?
0:37.6	This is Bill Muscat, our questioner. He's an engineer and also just really into architecture.
0:44.1	Just curious because a lot of the skyscrapers that Chicago's known for are just now coming to be
0:50.7	120 years old, and a lot of them aren't still here. Even some of the iconic
0:56.0	ones have been demolished and replaced. Bill thinks it would be sad for Chicago to lose the Willis
1:02.8	Tower. A lot of Chicagoans refuse to call it anything but the Sears Tower. It was the tallest
1:07.8	in the world when it was built, and after 42 years, it's still the tallest
1:11.7	in the city.
1:13.1	The Willis Tower in 2166.
1:16.1	I love this question.
1:17.7	Me too, but what's your reason?
1:20.6	It's about why we have skyscrapers at all, the mix of design and economics.
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