See Also: Prince Albert National Park(encyclopedia)
Sears Tower(encyclopedia)
Albert, Prince(dictionary)
Prince Albert(dictionary)
Lane's Prince Albert(dictionary)
Prince Albert Memorial Hospital(health)
Albert, prince consort of Great Britain and Ireland(encyclopedia)
Devils Tower National Monument(encyclopedia)
Sears, Roebuck(finance)
Sears Canada(finance)

Prince Albert National Park (sh) and Sears Tower (sh)


Prince Albert National Park (sh)




Park, central Saskatchewan, Canada.

Its main entrance is northwest of the city of Prince Albert. Established in 1927, it has an area of 1,496 sq mi (3,875 sq km) and is mostly woodland and lakes, interlaced with streams and Nature trails. It is a sanctuary for birds, moose, elk, caribou, and bears.


Sears Tower (sh)




Skyscraper office building in Chicago.

With 110 floors and a height of 1,450 ft (442 m), it became the world's tallest building at its completion in 1974. Its architect, Fazlur Khan (1928-1982), designed it as a bundled-tube (see skyscraper) structure to resist lateral forces. It is modular in plan, with nine 75-ft-(23-m-) square, column-free units. The exterior is sheathed in black aluminum and bronze-tinted glass. Louvers clad the four floors devoted to the building's mechanical operations. It was the world's tallest building until 1996, when it was surpassed by the Petronas Towers (1,483 ft [452 m]) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.