Synopsis

A steel titan reaching a height of 1,107 feet on a wide base, this remarkable vertical city is home to twelve hundred residents. Come with us as we examine how a young team of architects at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill envisioned an innovative one-hundred-story tower designed for multiple uses. A construction crisis brought the project to a standstill for six months, but once work resumed, it took only four years and 50 million man-hours to complete the John Hancock Center. Rising one hundred stor