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John Hancock Center

Towers and Skyscrapers

The John Hancock Center, officially 875 North Michigan Avenue, is a 100-story, 1,128-foot skyscraper in the Magnificent Mile district of Chicago, Illinois. It was designed by chief designer Bruce Graham and structural engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. When it topped out on 6 May 1968, it was the second-tallest building in the world after the Empire State Building and the tallest in Chicago; measured to the top of its antenna masts it stands at 1,500 feet.

Facts
Year Created
1969 1
Architectural Style
Structural Expressionism 1
Construction
from 1965 1
Height (metres)
344 1
Storey Count
100 1
Classification
Genre
Architecture 1
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Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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Sources
1. John Hancock Center, Wikipedia
  • Infobox, architectural style
    Structural Expressionism
  • Infobox, construction start
    1965
  • Infobox, floor count
    100
  • Infobox, architectural height
    1,128 ft (344 m)
  • Genre reference
    The John Hancock Center, officially 875 North Michigan Avenue, is a 100-story, 1,128-foot skyscraper in the Magnificent Mile district of Chicago, Illinois.
  • Infobox, completion date field
    1969
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