The Sears Tower in Chicago, the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere, is offering visitors a new way to push their fear of heights right over the edge. A set of glass balconies, nicknamed "The Ledge" and suspended from the building's 103rd floor Skydeck, opened on Thursday.The glass is three layers thick, one-and-a half inches in total, and capable of holding five tons. but it doesn't make them any less scary.
A set of glass balconies, nicknamed "The Ledge" and suspended from the building's 103rd floor Skydeck, opened on Thursday.
The glass is three layers thick, one-and-a half inches in total, and capable of holding five tons. but it doesn't make them any less scary.
for a while?
just to contemplate the concepts of transparency and (canti-)leverage, plus that 'masters of the universe' view... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
