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  Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium

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  Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium is a 17,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Hadley, Massachusetts on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It was home to the UMass Minutemen football team through the 2011 season, and remains home to the UMass Minutewomen lacrosse team. The stadium is named for Warren P. McGuirk, who was the UMass Athletic Director from 1948 to 1971. Although it is located within the University's campus, which is almost entirely in Amherst, the stadium itself lies just across the border in Hadley.

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  Design Architect : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
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  Ontario Tower

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  The Ontario Tower is a 29-floor tower in the Business Bay in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Construction of the Ontario Tower is expected to be completed in 2009.

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  Design Architect : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
  location:
  
  Dubai,
  
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  Willis Tower - Sears Tower

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  The Willis Tower (formerly named, and still commonly referred to as, the Sears Tower) is a 108-story, 1,451-foot (442 m) skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. At the time of its completion in 1973, it was the tallest building in the world, surpassing the World Trade Center towers in New York, and it held this rank for nearly 25 years. The Willis Tower is the tallest building in the United States and the seventh-tallest freestanding structure in the world.

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  Built: 1973
  Design Architect : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill - SOM
  Design Architect : Bruce John Graham
  Structural Engineer : Fazlur Khan
  style: Modern High-Rise
  location:
  233 S. Wacker Drive
  Chicago, Illinois
  United States
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  Congress Center

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  Congress Center (formerly the Orbanco Headquarters Building and Security Pacific Plaza) is an office building completed in 1980 in Portland, Oregon. It is currently the ninth tallest building in the city. The current name is taken from the Congress Hotel located on the site from 1912 until the late 1970s.

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  Built: 1980
  Design Architect : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
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  595 Market Street

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  595 Market Street is a skyscraper in San Francisco, California. The building rises 410 feet (125 meters) in the northern region of San Francisco's Financial District. It contains 30 floors, and was completed in 1979. 595 Market Street currently stands as the 37th-tallest building in the city. The architect who designed the building was Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. It is one of the few hexagonal-shaped skyscrapers in the city.

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  Built: 1979
  Design Architect : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill - SOM
  style: Modern Architecture
  location:
  595 Market Street
  San Francisco, California
  United States
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  Georgia-Pacific Tower

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  Georgia-Pacific Tower is a 212.45 m (697.0 ft) skyscraper in downtown Atlanta. It contains 52 stories of office space and was finished in 1982. Before the six year era of tall skyscrapers to be built in Atlanta, it was Atlanta's second tallest building from 1982 to 1987, and during that time period, the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel was the tallest building in Atlanta. Including the extra 6 years which were 1976-1982 before the Georgia Pacific tower opened. It has a stair-like design that staggers down to the ground, and is clad in pink marble quarried from Tate, Georgia.

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  Built: 1982
  Design Architect : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
  location:
  
  Atlanta,
  
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  United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel

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  The United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel, completed in 1962, is the distinguishing feature of the Cadet Area at the United States Air Force Academy. It was designed by renowned architect Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill of Chicago. Construction was accomplished by Robert E. McKee, Inc., of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Originally controversial in its design, the Cadet Chapel has become a classic and highly regarded example of modernist architecture. The Cadet Chapel was awarded the American Institute of Architects' National Twenty-five Year Award in 1996 and, as part of the Cadet Area, was named a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 2004.

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  Built: 1955
  Design Architect : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
  Design Architect : Walter Netsch
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  345 California Center

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  345 California Center is a 48 story office tower located in the San Francisco financial district. Completed in 1986, the 211.8 m (695 ft) tower is the third-tallest in the city after the Transamerica Pyramid and 555 California Street, and was originally proposed at 30 m (98 ft) taller.

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  Built: 1986
  Design Architect : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill - SOM
  style: Modern High-Rise
  location:
  345 California street
  San Francisco, California
  United States

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  Infinity Tower

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  Infinity Tower is a skyscraper under construction by Cayan Real Estate Investment & Development in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The project resumed construction in July 2008, after a delay caused by the collapse of a nearby wall and subsequent flooding of the construction site.

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  Built: 2006
  Design Architect : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
  Design Architect : George J. Efstathiou
  location:
  
  Dubai,
  
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  Burj Khalifa

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  Burj Khalifa (Arabic: برج خليفة‎ "Khalifa Tower"), known as Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is currently the tallest manmade structure in the world, at 829.84 m (2,723 ft). Construction began on 21 September 2004, with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009. The building officially opened on 4 January 2010, and is part of the new 2 km2 (490-acre) flagship development called Downtown Dubai at the 'First Interchange' along Sheikh Zayed Road, near Dubai's main business district. The tower's architecture and engineering were performed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill of Chicago, with Adrian Smith as chief architect, and Bill Baker as chief structural engineer. The primary contractor was Samsung C&T of South Korea.

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  Built: 2010
  Design Architect : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill - SOM
  Design Architect : George J. Efstathiou
  MEP Engineer : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill - SOM
  Structural Engineer : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill - SOM
  style: Modern High-Rise
  location:
  1 Emaar Boulevard
  Dubai,
  United Arab Emirates
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  Rolex Tower

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  The Rolex Tower is a 59-floor tower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The tower has a total structural height of 235 m (771 ft). Construction of the Rolex Tower was completed in 2010; the tower's inauguration was 7 November 2010.

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  Built: 2010
  Design Architect : George J. Efstathiou
  location:
  
  Dubai,
  

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