Tuesday, May 5, 2009

104:Which Building

In 1982_____ monopoly was dissolved by the court ordered divestiture of local phone companies. In the decade that followed, ____ erected new buildings across the country including the ___ Building in New York City.On April 5, 1985, ____ issued a request for proposals that produced eleven respondents.Stein and Co., the winning realtor, sought Skidmore, Owings and Merrill as designers for the purpose of distinguishing a proposal from the nearby Sears Tower. On April 3, 1989, ___ employees began to occupy the office space.The building was built under a self-imposed comprehensive minority contracting and affirmative action package that met the city's 1985 30% hiring rule for public sector projects.Chicago Mayor Harold Washington's administration had passed an edict that 30% of the work for public sector projects be set aside for minority and women-owned businesses.In a show of support for this rule Stein & Co. and ___ adopted the rule for their private development.As with other downtown buildings, the tower's setbacks and spires are accented by colored lights at night.The building's managers were praised for dimming their lights during bird migrations, reducing bird mortality 80%.

Answer:AT&T Corporate Center

Gaurav,Vinay,Susa & Joe

5 comments:

GAURAV said...

American Telephone & Telegraph Company

vinay r m said...

AT & T

Eldrich said...

sears towers

Susa said...

AT&T

Unknown said...

At&t(?) okay, this is a guess...the company that could've had so much of biz operations profitably, that could afford so many buildings and yeah the monopoly issue in 80s...BLEH!