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Marijka | all galleries >> Bon voyage, bon appetit... >> These United States >> The Keystone State >> City of Brotherly Love > philadelphia
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One Liberty Place --- the tall one with the tower - 288 m.
- Tallest building in Pennsylvania.
- First building in Philadelphia to break the gentlemen's agreement not to exceed the height of the William Penn statue on City Hall.
- The building's exterior features ice and snow melting systems.
- Cigna, one of the largest insurance companies in the United States, has its headquarters in this building.
- Sold to Philadelphia Liberty Property, L.P., on October 12, 1999, for $185 million. The land was also acquired at a cost of $28.2 million.

Two Liberty Place --- to the left of One Liberty Place - 258 m.
- Acquired by Shorenstein Company in June 2002 for a reported price of just over $200 million.
- This is the tallest building completed in Philadelphia during the 1990s.

Mellon Bank Center - to the right of One Liberty Place - 241 m.
- The appropriately-named Pyramid Club banquet hall is located just under the extravagant clear roof.
- The building received a Certificate of Engineering Excellence from the New York Association of Consulting Engineers in 1991.
- Received a 1992 Commerce Bank/Philadelphia Business Journal Building Excellence Award.


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