techPlate 634 · Chicago, United States

John Hancock Center

An X-braced giant, a tower that wears its structure as a face.

1969 · Bruce Graham & Fazlur Rahman Khan / SOM · North America

The chamber score

The Unanswered Question

Charles Ives · 1908

A façade with no answer.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The 875 North Michigan Avenue tower, an icon of Chicago's skyline.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct John Hancock Center through tech — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if John Hancock Center was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.