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View from the southwest - 2007-7-13 (549515)
(c) Marshall Gerometta
 
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From the 21st floor of the Celebreeze Federal Building - 2007-7-13 (402517)
(c) Frank Gerlak
 
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View from the north - 2007-7-13 (133247)
(c) Frank Gerlak
 
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Identification
Official name Key Tower
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Emporis Building Number 121788
 
Location
Address *
Bordering street #1 Public Square
Bordering street #2 St. Clair Avenue
Bordering street #3 West Mall Drive
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Location Map (POI) *
Complex Key Center
Zone Civic Center
Neighborhood Downtown
City Cleveland
State Ohio
Country U.S.A.
 
Technical Data
Height (tip) *
Height (struct.) 289 m 947 ft
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Floors (OG) 57
Construction start *
Construction end 1991
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Building in General
Type of construction skyscraper
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Status completed

Facts
- Philip Johnson bid on this project but lost out to Cesar Pelli (see concept model photo in this building's photo files).
- Key Tower's steel skeleton surpassed the height of the flagpole on Terminal Tower the week of November 26, 1990 making it the tallest building in Ohio.
- The Key Tower looks very similar to the rejected first proposal presented by Pelli of the Wells Fargo Center (then called Norwest Tower), which was built 3 years earlier in Minneapolis.
- The design is also similar to the unbuilt Society Center in Hartford, Connecticut.
- This was the tallest building between Chicago and New York City until the Comcast Center in Philadelphia was topped out in 2007.

Companies involved in this Building*
Architect: Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects , Kendall/Heaton Associates Inc.

Other companies: The Richard E. Jacobs Group, Inc., Wells Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc., The Richard E. Jacobs Group, Inc., The Richard E. Jacobs Group, Inc., Turner Construction Company, Frank Novak & Sons, Inc., The GQ Contracting Company, Baker Concrete Construction, American Bridge Company, Magnusson Klemencic Associates, Flour City International, Inc., Oliver Design Group, Harrington Electric Co, Lake Erie Electric, Independence Excavating, Gorman-Lavelle Corporation, Weaver Boos Consultants, Oliver Design Group, E.G. Smith Construction Products, Osborne, Inc., Otis Elevator Co., HighRise Systems, Inc., CENTRIA Architectural Systems, American Bridge Company, Standard Parking, KeyCorp.