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Highest Glass Floor in the World
If you're scared of heights, it may be time to look away now.
Not content with having the tallest building in America , the owners of
Sears Tower in Chicago have installed four glass box viewing platforms which stick out of the building 103 floors up.
The balconies are suspended 1,353 feet in the air and jut out four feet from the building's Skydeck.
Floating on air: Visitors get their first view from The Ledge, four glass balconies
suspended from the 103rd floor of Chicago 's Sears Tower .
Designers say the platforms - collectively dubbed The Ledge - have been purposely
designed to make visitors feel as they are floating above the city.
The reward is unobstructed views of Chicago from the building's west side and a
heart-stopping vista of the street and Chicago River below - for those brave enough to look straight down.
'It's like walking on ice,' visitor Margaret Kemp, from Bishop, California said. 'The first step you take you think "Am I going down?"'
Long way up: Even the floor of the platforms are glass - few were brave enough to look straight down.
Fearless: Anna Kane, five, spreads out on the floor of the 10ft square box which is 1,353ft up.
Spectacular: She also enjoyed amazing views out across the city
Unfazed: Although some adults felt dizzy after experiencing the Ledge, children seemed to take it in their stride.
'At first I was kind of afraid but I got used to it,' 10-year-old Adam Kane from Alton ,
Illinois, said as clouds drifted by below.
'Look at all those tiny things that are usually huge.'
John Huston, one of the owners of the Sears Tower, even admitted to getting 'a little
queasy' the first time he ventured out on to the balcony. However, after 30 or 40 trips,
he seems to have got used to it.
If you're scared of heights, it may be time to look away now.
Not content with having the tallest building in America , the owners of
Sears Tower in Chicago have installed four glass box viewing platforms which stick out of the building 103 floors up.
The balconies are suspended 1,353 feet in the air and jut out four feet from the building's Skydeck.
Floating on air: Visitors get their first view from The Ledge, four glass balconies
suspended from the 103rd floor of Chicago 's Sears Tower .
Designers say the platforms - collectively dubbed The Ledge - have been purposely
designed to make visitors feel as they are floating above the city.
The reward is unobstructed views of Chicago from the building's west side and a
heart-stopping vista of the street and Chicago River below - for those brave enough to look straight down.
'It's like walking on ice,' visitor Margaret Kemp, from Bishop, California said. 'The first step you take you think "Am I going down?"'
Long way up: Even the floor of the platforms are glass - few were brave enough to look straight down.
Fearless: Anna Kane, five, spreads out on the floor of the 10ft square box which is 1,353ft up.
Spectacular: She also enjoyed amazing views out across the city
Unfazed: Although some adults felt dizzy after experiencing the Ledge, children seemed to take it in their stride.
'At first I was kind of afraid but I got used to it,' 10-year-old Adam Kane from Alton ,
Illinois, said as clouds drifted by below.
'Look at all those tiny things that are usually huge.'
John Huston, one of the owners of the Sears Tower, even admitted to getting 'a little
queasy' the first time he ventured out on to the balcony. However, after 30 or 40 trips,
he seems to have got used to it.
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