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John Hancock Center

875 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago IL United States

Status:built
Construction Dates
  Began1965
  Finished1969
Floor Count100
Floor Area260,126 m²
Elevator Count50
Building Uses
 - mixed use
 - communication
 - observation
 - office
 - residential
Structural Types
 - highrise
 - cross brace
Architectural Style
 - international
Materials
 - glass
 - steel

 Heights ValueSource / Comments 
Antenna457.2 mFCC Reg. # 1009012
East antenna
Lower antenna450.0 mCTBUH
West antenna
Roof343.5 mCTBUH
Lower roof337.3 mBlueprint in lobby
Top floor328.6 mBlueprint in lobby
Observation deck313.8 mBlueprint in lobby
Ground level0.0 m
Sea level-180.7 mFCC Reg. # 1009012

Description
- This project was intended to be developed as several smaller buildings having different functions but within the same parcel. The project developer wanted a 50 storey office tower (1 million sq.ft.) along with a 70 storey residential complex (also 1 million sq.ft.) and 800,00 sq.ft. of combined commercial space and parking. The plan put forth by the S.O.M. Architect-Engineer team of Bruce Graham & Fazlur Khan called for stacking all of this components into a single 100 storey tower of comparable square footage. The structural system (a braced tube) was made possible by new and emerging computer analysis techniques. The tapered shape allows for smaller residential plates over office plates over commercial plates and opens up a wider environment at the plaza.

- The observation deck is unusual in that part of it has a screen window instead of the standard plate glass.

- Building topped-out 6 May 1968.

- The base of the building has dimensions of 80.77 by 50.29 meters (north-south by east-west). The building narrows towards the top at 32 by 19.8 meters.

- Member of "World Federation of Great Towers".

- In 1969, it was the 2nd tallest building in the world.

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Companies
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP - architect
  
  

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