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华中科技大学文华学院 毕业设计（论文）外文文献翻译 （本科学生用） 题 目：红安创业大厦设计 _______________________________ 学 生 姓 名：徐犹生 学号：070202011119 学 部 （系）:城市建设工程学部 专 业 年 级: 07建筑学一班 指 导 教 师：管毓刚 职称或学位： 讲师 2011年6月8日 外文文献翻译（译成中文1000字左右）： 【主要阅读文献不少于5篇，译文后附注文献信息，包括：作者、书名（或论文题目）、出 版 社（或刊物名称）、出版时间（或刊号）、页码。提供所译外文资料附件（印刷类含封面、封底、目录、翻译部分的复印件等，网站类的请附网址及原文） 原文：Sears Tower 原文网址：/TALLEST_TOWERS/t_sears.htm Architects: Bruce Graham, design partner, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Location: Chicago Client: Sears Roebuck and Company, Engineer: Fazlur Khan of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Project year: 1970-1974 Sears Tower(4.5 million ft2)Chicago, Illinois (1974)1,454 feet, 443.0 meters, 110 storiesOriginal owners: Sears Roebuck and Company.?Architect: Bruce Graham, design partner, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Engineer: Fazlur Khan of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.Constructed 1970-1974 In the late 1960s, Sears Roebuck and Company, then the worlds largest retailer with $8.9 billion in sales, decided to consolidate its administrative operations in downtown Chicago. The company determined it needed 3 million ft2 of office space with floors of 50,000 ft2 to accommodate its 13,000 employees in their major departments. The first designs were for a boxy structure exclusively for Sears, but the architects and real estate advisors pressed for a taller tower with upper floors for tenants. The building slowly stretched to 4.5 million ft2 and 110 stories, and in July 1970, Sears trumpeted its plans for the worlds tallest building. At 1454 feet, its height surpassed the World Trade Center by 100 feet and was, according to Sears as tall as the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) will let us go. For more than twenty years after its completion in 1974, Sears Tower remained the tallest skyscraper, and it is still the largest. As designed by architect Bruce Graham and engineer Fazlur Khan of the Chicago office of Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM), the structure was a bundled tube system of nine squares with