GA2:
To me, it is interesting to be able to identify math in our everyday lives. Whether it is simply the shapes you look at all around you or something more complex than that, math is everywhere. Like I stated in my previous blog, math is frequently seen in sports, but is also often seen in architecture, nature, and limitless other places. In this blog, I am going to focus on how it can specifically and blatantly be seen in present day architecture.
Chicago is undoubtedly one of my favorite places in the world. Every time we go visit my grandma in Wheaton, a suburb of Chicago, and drive into downtown, the magnificent Willis tower is the first to greet you. Standing at 1,482.6 feet with 110 floors, the Willis, formerly Sears tower, is clearly composed of 9 separate "tubes," as they are called in architecture. The 9 tubes are bundled together to form a 3 by 3 cube, with the towers standing at four different heights. Building the Willis Tower took extreme precision, accuracy, and mathematical skills.
SOME COOL FACTS ABOUT THE WILLIS TOWER:
-The Willis tower has about 4.56 million gross square feet( approx. 101 football fields)
-The building cost about $170 million dollars to build in the 70's, but would now cost upwards of $790 million
-The entire structure(made of steel) weighs over 222,500 tons
-You can see four different states from the top of the Willis Tower(Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan)
-104 elevators moving 1200 feet per minute.
