The John Hancock Tower, later renamed 200 Clarendon Street, is a 60 story, 790 foot office skyscraper in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, designed by Henry N. Cobb of I. M. Pei and Partners and built from 1968 to 1976. Its parallelogram floor plan carries the largest panes of glass then achievable with minimal mullions, giving the tower's blue tinted reflective facade a subtle contrast against the sky, while vertical notches on its short sides emphasize its height, long the tallest building in New England. The tower gained notoriety soon after completion for structural flaws, including failures of its glass panes and concerns about the building's resistance to certain wind conditions, problems that were eventually resolved, and it later received the American Institute of Architects' National Honor Award in 1977 and Twenty Five Year Award in 2011.
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The John Hancock Tower, colloquially known as the Hancock, is a 60-story, 790-foot (240 m) skyscraper in the Back Bay neighborhood of downtown Boston, Massachusetts.
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It was an embarrassment for the firm, for modernist architects, and for the architecture industry.
Uses Element: Glass, Development and engineering flaws
There were problems with the use of blue reflective glass in a steel tower: entire windowpanes, 4 ft × 11 ft (1.2 m × 3.4 m) and 500 lb (230 kg), detached from the building and crashed to the sidewalk hundreds of feet below.
Uses Element: Steel, Development and engineering flaws
There were problems with the use of blue reflective glass in a steel tower: entire windowpanes, 4 ft × 11 ft (1.2 m × 3.4 m) and 500 lb (230 kg), detached from the building and crashed to the sidewalk hundreds of feet below.
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The John Hancock Tower, colloquially known as the Hancock, is a 60-story, 790-foot (240 m) skyscraper in the Back Bay neighborhood of downtown Boston, Massachusetts.
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Wikidata item Q798416, property P2048 (height): 241.0 m (converted to metres, preferred/normal rank, non-deprecated)
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Wikidata item Q798416, property P131/P17 (location): Boston, United States
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