sears tower skydeck and "the ledge"
on saturday my friends and i decided to spend the day downtown playing tourist so since we had never been up in the "sears" tower before that's what we decided to do. the skydeck is on the 103 floor (of 108) and the elevator up traveled at 24 ft per second. took us a measly 60 seconds to arrive from the ground floor. crazy. the views from the top are amazing although some how in the hour it took us to wait in line and get up there our beautifully sunny day turned completely hazy. totally our luck. we tried to time it with sunset but as you can see that really didn't work.
anyways, i wanted to go up there for the chance to stand in one of the 4 boxes that make up "the ledge". the same architecture firm that designed the building (skidmore, owings and merrill) came up with a way to construct 4 glass boxes that stick out around 4 feet from the side of the building. it was really cool to stand in the box and look down. made me miss skydiving.
the 3 of us standing in the box looking down. (i'm the one in the yellow shoes, lol)
a view from the 3rd box to the 4th box. they each stick out 4 feet from the side of the building.
a 50/50 view. the left is outside of the box and the right is me standing in the box.
anyways, i wanted to go up there for the chance to stand in one of the 4 boxes that make up "the ledge". the same architecture firm that designed the building (skidmore, owings and merrill) came up with a way to construct 4 glass boxes that stick out around 4 feet from the side of the building. it was really cool to stand in the box and look down. made me miss skydiving.
the 3 of us standing in the box looking down. (i'm the one in the yellow shoes, lol)
a view from the 3rd box to the 4th box. they each stick out 4 feet from the side of the building.
a 50/50 view. the left is outside of the box and the right is me standing in the box.