Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, John Hancock Center, 1969

Rising prominently along Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, the John Hancock Center stands as a defining achievement of late-modernist high-rise design. Engineered by SOM with Bruce Graham and Fazlur Khan, the tower introduced an innovative structural system in which the exterior X-bracing is both load-bearing and expressive.

This integration of structure and façade allowed for unprecedented height, reduced material use, and expansive interior spaces, while giving the building its unmistakable graphic identity. The John Hancock Center exemplifies modernism at its most rigorous: functional, efficient, and visually uncompromising, where engineering logic becomes architectural language.

Printed on 310gsm Giclée Hahnemühle German Etching

• 30x45 cm (12x18 inches) is a limited edition of 100
• 40x60 cm (16x24 inches) is a limited edition of 50
• 50x75 cm (20x30 inches) is a limited edition of 25

For all limited editions a certificate of authenticity is included