Brits want to rename the Sears Tower.

The Sears Tower, Chicago landmark and the highest skyscraper in North America, will get a new name: The London insurance broker Willis Group Holdings pulls out a name and has the rights to buy the tower.

 

Washington - 442 meters of the towers on Chicago Sears Tower - or, as the tallest building in North America gets a new name. Future plans of the 110-story tower "Tower Willis' hot, after the London insurance broker Willis Group Holdings where some 13,000 square meters of office space is rented.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. retail group Sears, in the tower until the nineties had its headquarters, called the name change "sad," wrote the New York Times on Friday. The skyscraper was when it opened 1973 as the world's tallest building.

The building was built after 2003, when the rights of the trade group on behalf of the skyscraper expired were still called the Sears Tower. According to U.S. media, the high-rise in June officially registered in the name Willis Tower be baptized. First Internet Surveys "Chicago Tribune" triggers to reject the renaming, hardly anyone gives the new name a chance.

The skyscraper was built three years of work. Inside are 104 lifts on the road. Overall, around 354 000 square meters are rented out - the space of about 35 football fields. In 1998, the Petronas Twin Towers in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur (approximately 452 meters) to the Sears Tower as the title of "tallest building in the world" in dispute.