>>>Chrysler Building    >>>City Hall    >>>Empire State Building    >>>Flatiron Building    >>>Foshay Tower    >>>Fountain Place    

>>>Freedom Tower    >>>IDS Center    >>>J. P. Morgan Chase    >>>Key Tower    >>>Magnolia Hotel    >>>Metropolitan Building    

>>>Renaissance Tower    >>>Tower City    >>>Tribune Tower    >>>Trump Tower    >>>Two Prudential    >>>U. S. Bank Tower    

>>>Water Tower    >>>Williams Tower    >>>Wrigley Building

IDS Center

Opened in 1974, the IDS Center (or IDS Tower) was the tallest building in Minneapolis, Minnesota at 775 feet until the 1992 opening of 225 South Sixth (formerly First Bank Place), one foot taller. It surpassed the height of the 30-story Foshay Tower in 1972 while under construction, ending that Swarovski building's 43-year reign over the Minneapolis skyline.

The IDS center is the tall building on the center left of this picture.

This reading may inspire to set up a display cabinet or display showcase for the keeping of pictures or other valuable articles. Collecting objects would be particularly well kept in a collectors case or a collectors cabinet.

Fast Facts

Begun: 1968

Opened: 1974

Height: 775 feet (236 meters)

Floors: 57 (52 occupied)

ZIP Code: 55402

World Rank: 128th

City Rank: 2nd

Location: 80 8th St. South, Minneapolis, MN

Architect: Philip Johnson, Johnson/Burgee Architects

Developers: Investment Diversified Services (a division of American Express).

The Wells Fargo Center (formerly the Norwest Tower) is very close to the IDS Center; from certain angles, the reflection of the WFC can be seen in the glass facing of the IDS Center.

The above is also true of the Foshay Tower.

The IDS Center's communication spires tower to 910 feet, the highest point in Minneapolis. Some of the broadcasters using the antenna include MTV2, religious broadcasters like EWTN, and the Home Shopping Network. A number of major FM radio stations formerly broadcasted from the site, but now use the IDS antenna as a backup in case their primary location in Shoreview, Minnesota were to fail.

Many high-rise buildings in Minneapolis echo design features of the IDS Center.

Because of the IDS Center's peculiar and unique stepback design (the stepbacks are called "zogs"), each floor has 32 corner offices.

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