World / USA / Massachusetts / Somerville, 5 km from center Coordinates: 42°20'57"N   71°4'30"W

John Hancock Tower
John Hancock Tower

60 floors, finished in 1976.
127 tallest in the world, 44 tallest in USA

Designed by I.M. Pei and Henry N. Cobb of the firm of Pei, Cobb and Freed


Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock_Tower
Category: tower boston skyscraper tallest

place comments:
7 months ago Mark   +1
poorly designed windows started falling out after it was completed and made the building a dangerous thing to be around. this began the boston tradition of half assing construction and paying double to fix it, now becoming apparent in the big dig.
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