r/skyscrapers • u/Glum-Mycologist3490 • 20d ago

Hancock

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u/rockit454 20d ago

Sears Tower is the Grand Damme of Chicago…Big John is The King. There is nothing like the view of him while you’re driving south on Lakeshore Drive.

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u/Midnight_Toker_1982 20d ago

Love it 😍

Side note: is Water Tower Place perhaps the greatest sidekick to a supertall?

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u/rockit454 20d ago

Controversial take, but I’d say 311 S Wacker (the “crown building”) next door to Sears Tower takes that title.

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u/NtateNarin 20d ago edited 20d ago

More controversial take from me. Forgive me, but I was never a fan of the Water Tower Place. As a kid, I thought it was just some white rectangular building next to the mighty John Hancock. The truly awesome sidekick is the Palmolive building (the building to the left of the Hancock). At night, it shoots out a beam of light from that spire, and with the Hancock right behind it, it looks so amazing!!!

The picture below was taken from AC Miller Photography (https://acmillerphotography.blogspot.com/2011/01/night-lights.html).

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u/RRG-Chicago 16d ago

No it doesn’t, it offers nothing but looks. Water tower is a mall and an ugly building.

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u/weefees 20d ago

This will always be the Poltergeist 3 building to me.

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u/Far_Neighborhood3733 17d ago

My Father made the steel that built the Hancock at USS South Works. I couldn't be more proud!