Talk:John Hancock Center

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"The 95th floor has long been home to a fine restaurant, the latest incarnation being called The Signature Room on the 95th Floor."
Shouldn't "on the 95th Floor" be dropped from the end of this sentence?
TJSwoboda 18:14, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No, because the full name of the restaurant is "The Signature Room on the 95th Floor."Shsilver 18:56, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help stamp out redundancy and repetition! 

message: How about a good picture of the building? Currently, we only have a very distant shot and a view from the center away. Anybody from Chicago mind to add a good picture? Peter S. 13:51, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed it to a slightly better version from Chicago -- however I can crop it when I have a few free minutes to make this pic better.  --Quasipalm 16:17, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good picture? 

message: The official website says the view from the obersvatory spans four states. this cant be true, can it?--Atticus2020 14:48, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it's true. Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan. --spyguy 16:02, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's f-ing crazy.--Atticus2020 23:59, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: View

message: Not to underestimate the work of those that came ahead, but this article contains may inaccuracies and incorrect information. For example:
-the building's skin does not play any structural role, that is the definition of a skyscraper;
-the difference between "commercial district" and "financial district" is connotatively non-existent;
-generally, the structural information was not put together with much structural knowledge
-it looks like the article was cobbled together, with no allowance for structure and flow.
I can make an attempt to clean it up.
::This article has gotten a lot better. Thanks to all who contributed to this. Also, the thing that fell off the tower is called a "swing stage", I am an architect and have been on one. I added and slightly modified this in the article.Gary Joseph 01:34, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: This Article is Bad

message: To me, the most salient fact about this building is the fact that its width and breadth are much larger at its base than at its peak, i.e. the sides are not completely vertical, but rather slope inward. Isn't this unusual among skyscrapers? Isn't it worth mentioning? (Not worth mentioning in the article is the fact that this monumental black building with its two antennas sticking up like ears has always somehow reminded me of Darth Vader.) —Angr 23:09, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Base and peak 

message: As seen from the Chicago skyline picture toward the end of the article, it's the third largest building in Chicago!  Who laid claim to this being the third largest in the world, only behind the Sears Tower and Taipei 101?  Can this be accurate?
:It is completely accurate, but only when measuring to the tips of its antennae. See List of tallest buildings in the world#Height to Pinnacle. When measuring to architectural detail (which is far common to use when ranking skyscrapers by height, and excludes antennae), it is only the 16th-tallest. Rai-me 02:39, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this really the third tallest building in the world? 

message: I've edited the extremely long dab link at the top of this article down to a shorter version. It previously read: Several buildings bear this name, all built by John Hancock Insurance and named after John Hancock. For the John Hancock Tower in Boston, Massachusetts, see John Hancock Tower. I've shortened it to: For the tower in Boston, Massachusetts, see John Hancock Tower. Why is a link needed to John Hancock Insurance and John Hancock? There is clearly no chance of confusion with either of these articles, so it did not make sense to have them in the dab link. The "several" was also ambiguous: There are only two John Hancock Towers/Centers that I know of, the one in Boston and the one in Chicago. (There were two buildings in Boston that were formerly called the John Hancock Tower, but both were renamed after the completion of the modern John Hancock Tower.) Raime 02:15, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dab link too long 

message: I moved some of the images to a gallery at the end. A panoramic image of the skyline appeared too! Strange why i could not see it before... Looks slightly better now i think? ← κεηηε∂γ (talk) (contribs) 10:25, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: I know you have a yearly run up the stairs in the building.  How many stairs are there exactly?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.21.97.212 (talk) 18:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Steps or stairs 

message: The introduction says, "The building ... contains the highest residences in the world". There's an ambiguity in the phrasing. It should be rewritten to make clear that the baseline is the structure's base level, since in terms of sea level, there are many human settlements at higher altitudes. - Gyan (talk) 10:40, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible semantic inaccuracy 

message: The second paragraph in the opening of this article needs to be cleaned up, it seems a bit much like advertisement. Neutral point-of-view might be the wrong flag, if there's a better flag feel free to change it.
Organman91 (talk) 02:36, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've done a bit of trimming, taken some of teh blatant advertsising and informal text away. I don't know if it ok now, but I think it's a bit better. VanillaBear23 (talk) 13:21, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second paragraph 

message: "and contains the third highest residence in the world, after the Trump Tower also in Chicago and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai." Well, I own a house on Mau'i that is higher than this entire building, so *I* must own the highest residence in the world. Oh, wait, there are some further up the volcano. Drat! I'm not even sure how to reword the statement, so I'll leave it to you all, but none of the buildings mentioned even come close to having the "highest residence in the world". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.141.145.218 (talk • contribs) 
Perhaps by phrasing it as "highest residence above ground-level" or "highest residence in relation to ground-level of a skyscraper"??? SecretName101 (talk) 15:56, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Highest residence? 

message: "A little over three years after the Hancock’s completion, a 29-year-old Chicago woman named Lorraine Kowalski fell to her death from her boyfriend’s 90th-floor Hancock Center apartment. To this day, detectives are dumbfounded by the event; the building’s windows are capable of withstanding more than 200 pounds of pressure per square foot and winds of more than 150 miles per hour, yet Kowalski actually broke through the glass. Four years later, a transmitter technician for a local radio station plunged to his death from the 97th floor offices of his television station. Just three months later, a 27-year old tenant “fell” from his 91st-floor apartment while studying for an exam at breakfast. In 1978, a 31-year old woman shot a man to death in his home on the Hancock’s 65th floor, and in 1998, beloved comedian Chris Farley was found dead in the entrance hall of his 60th-floor apartment. Most recently, in March of 2002, a 25-foot aluminum scaffold fell from the building’s 43rd floor, crushing three cars, killing three women and injuring 8 others."
http://www.chicagohauntings.com/hancock.html
There was also the death of an iron worker during construction.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.239.231.71 (talk) 14:34, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deaths? 

message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpXL_QaK17E#t=597 NYCFC (talk) 23:22, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Impressive video !!! 

message: Did they really try to knock him off the building? I'm at least assuming very near to the bottom. Was the 80s really that bad? B137 (talk) 06:14, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Goodwin 

message: here it is under construction : https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidwilson1949/5582470062/in/album-72157614049704111/ Victor Grigas (talk) 04:55, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  photo 

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message: Mention should be made of its 95th/96th floor restaurant The Signature Room SecretName101 (talk) 15:55, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
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message: As reflected in today's revisions, John Hancock Insurance has requested that their name and logos be removed from this building.  I leave it to an editor to decide how to reflect the name change in the naming of this article - and also to change the tower's name in the Chicago Skyscrapers graphic - DiogenesNY (talk) 03:13, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Hancock Center No More 

message: I heard the Story that Original TWO towers were planned, but they not get the building ground for second.
 2A02:908:1015:D440:755F:109C:77A5:B0B7 (talk) 11:10, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two Towers center? 

message: The article states the elevators were mfg'd by Otis, I'm pretty sure the original elevators were made by Schindler.  Valgrus Thunderaxe (talk) 20:07, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
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message: The large table that attempts to visualize floors in the "Floor plan and tenants" section is unwieldy, not easily viewable on mobile, and really doesn't add much information that a simple list or prose could provide. I suggest removing it. --ZimZalaBim talk 21:34, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Floor plan and tenants section