200 Clarendon Street (former John Hancock Tower) (Boston, Massachusetts)

USA / Massachusetts / Somerville / Boston, Massachusetts / Clarendon Street, 200
 skyscraper, 1976_construction, postmodern (architecture)
www.200clarendon.com/
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
cache.boston.com/news/special/audio_slideshows/hancock/...

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  1. ObserveIT
  2. Kirkland & Ellis LLP
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock_Tower
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Coordinates:   42°20'57"N   71°4'30"W

Comments

  • 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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