John Hancock Center
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875 North Michigan Avenue is a 100-story, 1,128-foot-tall skyscraper located in Chicago, Illinois. Located in the Magnificent Mile district, the building was designed by Peruvian-American chief design
875 North Michigan Avenue in 2022, viewed from Michigan Avenue
The John Hancock Center under construction, August 1968
John Hancock Center in 1974
X-bracing on the tower's façade
SOM (architectural firm)
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SOM, an initialism of its original name Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, is an American architectural, urban planning, and engineering firm with headquarters in Chicago. It was founded in 1936 by Louis
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…district, the building was designed by Peruvian-American chief designer Bruce Graham and Bangladeshi-American structural engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM). When the building topped out on May 6, 1968, it was the second-tallest building in the world after the Empire State Building, in New York City…
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