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The John Hancock Building in Chicago stands 1,127 feet tall and was designed by SOM. The tower was completed in 1969 and contains 100 stories. It is a braced tube structure, with diagonal bracing on the exterior to combat the lateral wind loads.
The exterior is clad in anodized aluminum panels. The building tapers in width in both directions as the height of the tower increases.
A really cool stepping water fountain inside of the Water Tower Place shopping mall. The silver cone actually shot pellets of water up and through the level above.The water fell through round holes to the level below, That is pure water falling in that shape!
The Old Water Tower on Michigan Avenue. Constructed in 1869, the building is one of the few that survived the Great Fire in Chicago in 1871.
A cool atrium inside one of the many buildings we went in on our field trip to Chicago on a very cold and blustery January Friday. We were analyzing and studying skyscrapers for our skyscraper studio. I took this image shortly before we were yelled at for taking pictures in this building! |
