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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