Work

John Hancock Tower

The John Hancock Tower, colloquially known as the Hancock, is a 60-story, 790-foot (240 m) skyscraper in the Back Bay neighborhood of downtown Boston, Massachusetts. The pinnacle height is 852 feet (260 m). Designed by Henry N. Cobb of the firm I. M. Pei & Partners, it was completed in 1976, and has held the title as the tallest building in New England ever since. In 2015, the lease belonging to the John Hancock Mut…

building

built

1976

Boston, Boston, United States

Architecture

tower Architecture

Compare this work More works here Map nearby works View city page View region page View country page Open source record

Gallery

Hero image, caption, credit, source, and license are attached to the work record.

John Hancock Tower in Boston, United States

Gallery

John Hancock Tower gallery

John Hancock Tower image

Skyscraper in Boston, Massachusetts

Credit:

Rights: Unknown · unknown

View related work Wikipedia Unknown

Architects

Bureaus

Books

Phase 1 site intelligence

Runtime context from mapping, climate, transit, and access providers

Gathering site context

Pulling place, climate, and nearby mobility signals for this work.

Project source graph

Primary, verified, captured, and archive traces attached to this work

Assembling project-source coverage

Pulling canonical links, verified sources, captured candidates, archive traces, and Phase 2 environmental context.

Phase 3 materials and carbon

Material palette, carbon research, and classification scaffolding around the work

Building the material and carbon layer

Normalizing the palette, checking public classification systems, and preparing product-level research handoffs.

Architects

People attached to this work in the current corpus

Architect

I. M. Pei

1917-2019 · New York, New York, United States

Role: lead architect

Primary contributor

Ieoh Ming Pei was a Chinese-American architect.

Bureaus

Practices attached to this work in the current corpus

Bureau

I. M. Pei & Partners

practice · New York, New York, United States

Role: designer

Primary bureau

I. M. Pei & Partners extends the saved.archi corpus as a bureau tied to I. M. Pei's work, adding a broader office-level lens across buildings and places.

Related works

Nearby precedents grouped by architect line, geography, material, typology, and decade.