The Brewers' new state-of-the-art home was officially open for business on April 6, 2001.And it truly is state-of-the-art. The signature fan-shaped convertible roof, a color replay board measuring 48 feet wide and 37 feet tall on top of a matrix scoreboard measuring 76-feet by 32-feet, and four choices of front-row seats on four different levels make Miller Park one of baseball's crown jewels.

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At 1483 feet (452m) tall, the tallest building in the world at the date of its completion, measured to the highest point. Each of the twin Petronas Towers is 88 stories plus an additional architectural point (at 1242 feet), plus a tall spire to 1483 feet. Compare to the Sears Tower in Chicago which is 110 stories, and the twin World Trade Center towers in New York, which were each 110 stories. Although these other skyscrapers were created with higher occupied floors, they are not considered as tall under the arcane rules used for rating the world's tallest, according to which architectural spires count towards building height, but antennas atop a building do not.

 

Built in 1924 on Chicago's picturesque lakefront, the old Soldier Field had grown antiquated. The 1,441,000-square-foot Soldier Field was scheduled for completion in a record 20 months, even though a typical stadium requires 30 months or more.

Infrastructure work started in July 2001, six months before the Bears' last game of the season. Early phased work included the rerouting of sewers, water, power and construction of two major electric vaults. By the time the Bears played their final game on Jan. 20, 2002, power was rerouted through new underground utilities networked throughout the 92-acre site, and construction of the new stadium launched at 12:01 a.m. Jan 21.

 

Situated on the edge of Florida's east coast, Kennedy Space Center is the only facility in the world that launches the Space Shuttle.