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John Hancock Center
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North America |
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East Chestnut Street, East Delaware Place, North Michigan Avenue
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ARCHITECTURE | Buildings for offices and professional practises
Offices
Vertical architectures
Skyscrapers
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1965
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1970 |
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| Twenty-five Year Award, American Institute of Architect |
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| Twenty-five Year Award, American Institute of Architect (Chicago) |
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| Excellence Award, American Institute of Steel Construction |
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| Honor Award, AIA Chicago Chapter |
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BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |
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| Nicholas Adams, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. SOM dal 1936, Mondadori Electa, Milano 2006, pp. 218-229 (cover) |
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| Yasmin Sabina Kahn, Engineering Architecture. The Vision of Fazlur R. Kahn, W.W. Norton, New York 2004, pp. 104-129 |
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| "Le dieci torri che hanno cambiato il mondo/Ten towers that changed the world", Domus Grattacieli/Skyscrapers, supplemento a/supplement of Domus 865, dicembre/december 2003, p. 26 (22-29) |
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| Iñaki Ábalos, Juan Herreros, Tower and Office. From Modernist theory to Contemporary Practice, MIT Press, Cambridge (MA), 2003, pp. 65-66 |
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| Ezra Stoller, The John Hancock Center, Princeton Architectural Press, New York 2000 |
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| Lotus international 101, giugno/june 1999 [Grattacieli/Skyscrapers], p. 8 (6-15), 37 |
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| "Chigago's "Big John" Hancock Tower still stands tall on the World's skyline", Architectural record 5/1999, "25 year awards" pp. 154-155 |
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| Ezra Stoller, The John Hancock Center, Princeton Architectural Press, 1999 |
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| Judith Dupré, Skyscrapers, Black Dog & Leventhal, New York 1996, pp. 62-63 |
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| Pauline A. Saliga (ed.), The Sky's Limit. A Century of Chicago Skyscrapers, Rizzoli, New York 1990, pp. 212-217 |
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| Robert Mark, Light, Wind and Structure. The Secret of the Master Builders, MIT Press, Cambridge (MA) 1990, pp. 177-180 |
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| Bruce Graham of SOM, Electa, Milano 1989, pp. 46-51 |
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| Sandro Marpillero, "L'insostenibile pesantezza dell'architettura", Rassegna 36, dicembre/december 1988 [Minimal], p. 69 (66-73) |
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| Architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Architectural Book Publishing, New York 1974, pp. 162-169 |
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| Carl W. Condit, Chicago 1930-1970. Building, Planning and Urban Technology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1974, pp. 102-112 |
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| Nathaniel Alexander Owings, The American Aesthetic, Harper & Row, New York 1969, pp. 123-126 |
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| "Project for a 100-storey office building with 500 flats and shops. John Hancock centre, Chicago", L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, septembre-novembre/september-november 1965, pp. 8-9 |
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| gross building area sq.m. 260.128 |
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STRUCTURES |
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STAFF |
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| Principal-in-charge |
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| Project architect |
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| Associate architect |
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Fazlur Kahn
Hal Iyengar (design) |
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| Paul Weidlinger and Amman & Whitney (structures) |
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| Lighting engineer |
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| Interior design |
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| George Larson (public areas) |
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