OMEN
07-03-2009, 09:42 PM
The view from one of the world's tallest skyscrapers has just got even more unnerving.
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The Sears Tower in Chicago has installed a glass-floored observation deck - 1,353ft up in the air.
Visitors can step out on to one of four glass boxes jutting out of the huge 110-storey office building.
The attraction, called The Ledge, has transparent walls and ceilings and is designed to give people a "floating sensation".
Architect Ross Wilmer said: "We did studies that showed a 4ft deep enclosure makes you feel like you're floating since there's only room for one row of people, not two."
It is made from glass just half-an-inch thick jutting out from the indoor observation deck.
The new deck, on the 103rd floor of the building, is already attracting up to 25,000 visitors a day to the building, which opened in 1973.
Margaret Kemp, of Bishop, California, said: "It's like walking on ice - on the first step you feel you're going to fall."
Nova
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The Sears Tower in Chicago has installed a glass-floored observation deck - 1,353ft up in the air.
Visitors can step out on to one of four glass boxes jutting out of the huge 110-storey office building.
The attraction, called The Ledge, has transparent walls and ceilings and is designed to give people a "floating sensation".
Architect Ross Wilmer said: "We did studies that showed a 4ft deep enclosure makes you feel like you're floating since there's only room for one row of people, not two."
It is made from glass just half-an-inch thick jutting out from the indoor observation deck.
The new deck, on the 103rd floor of the building, is already attracting up to 25,000 visitors a day to the building, which opened in 1973.
Margaret Kemp, of Bishop, California, said: "It's like walking on ice - on the first step you feel you're going to fall."
Nova