Hancock Building
Not the sort of thing you want to see out your window just before you leave for lunch
By adamg - 6/7/12 - 2:28 pm
Anne of No Gables took this picture of impending doom out the window of her office in the Hancock building this afternoon.
The world's tallest plywood building used to be in the Back Bay
By adamg - 3/6/12 - 9:50 pmThe Hancock tower in 1974, when windows with a tendency to pop out had to be replaced (a closer view).
The tri-colored Hancock
By adamg - 11/17/10 - 4:59 pm
The Hancock Building around 1:30 p.m. as seen from Tremont Street.
Security guards don't always harass photographers
By adamg - 1/11/10 - 10:37 amRich Beaubien reports he's been taking nighttime photos around the Hancock tower of late:
... I know they see me on the security cameras because while setting up and shooting under the main entrance awning they actually turned on the lights for me. So it's not all bad out there.
Window drama at the Hancock
By adamg - 4/29/09 - 9:52 pmJen Stewart reports that when she and some coworkers were having dinner at Skipjack's tonight, they noticed Clarendon Street in front of the Hancock tower was being blocked off by police with sawhorses and police tape. Then they looked up and saw what looked like a window-washing platform about two-thirds of the way up. Could it be loose windows?
The right atmospheric conditions lead to dramatic sunsets
By adamg - 12/13/08 - 6:31 pm
When the sun hits the Hancock just right at sunset, it changes color rather dramatically, making a trip up to Peters Hill in the Arboretum well worth the effort.
Flat Stanley's favorite Boston building
Tom Ulrich looks up and up and up at the Hancock.
High spines
By adamg - 4/18/08 - 12:13 pm
Christine compares Boston's High Spine with a high spine - seven floors up at Boston Medical Center.
When the oceans rise, the Hancock will float south
By adamg - 12/27/06 - 4:18 pmWho knew Diesel Jeans had a social conscience? Third Decade notices an ad that obviously warns us against global warming by showing (oh so chic and half-dressed) models floating around a flooded New York - one in which the Empire State Building has been joined by the Hancock Building (three copies of it, actually).
