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s. In February 1991, construction resumed. Swanke Hayden Connell Architects designed the tower in a mixture of the

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styles. The facade is made of polished reddish-pink granite. The tower was sold in 2002 for US$ 500 million to a group of German-American investors.

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(floor 2) * Turing Pharmaceuticals (floor 39)

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