John Hancock Tower, also known as Hancock Place or just The Hancock, is located at 200
Clarendon Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The modernist skyscraper is made of
steel with a glass and blue curtain wall façade. It stands 789.99 feet tall and
has 60 floors. Designed by Henry N. Cobb of I.M. Pei & Partners, it is the
tallest building in New England. The tower’s construction began in 1972 and was
completed in 1976.
John Hancock Tower has won two awards from the American
Institute of Architects: the National Honor Award in 1977 and the Twenty-Five
Year Award in 2011. It also earned an Energy Star Award in 2006.
The tower has over 10,000 reflective glass panes. When
construction began, the design included double layer mirror glass windows, but
several of these fell from their mullions during harsh winds. The panes were
then replaced with single thickness glass.
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