![]() ![]() During the brief time I had the (dis)pleasure of working in the Boston E&Y offices, I grew to dislike the functionality of this skinny building. This was even as some of the mirror-finished windows were occasionally falling out. al were high-fiving on their sky-high mirror, which did make for a nice addition to the Boston skyline. You get a slight feel for this in the shot to the right below. You can see the top of the second Hancock building at the bottom right of the panorama above or in the picture to the left below.Īdditionally, the building-as-mirror was meant to make it blend in with the sky. Thus, from a certain vantage point, the third building reflected the first two. The 60-story Hancock Tower was the third John Hancock building, being built immediately across the street from the first two Hancock buildings. Combined with the reflective glass exterior, this made the building an enormous mirror. The Tower’s profile is a long and slender parallelogram. As you can see below, you get quite a view of downtown Boston forty stories up!įrom Hancock Tower - Maximize your window to get the full view! One Saturday while having to stop by the office to drop off some files, I brought along my Canon digital camera and took photos to construct a panorama. E&Y’s offices were then located in the Hancock (not sure if they are still there) at around the 40 th floor. I lived in Boston back from 2003 to 2004 while working in audit (AABS) for Ernst & Young. That’s nearly a 50% haircut on the low-end. Pei building’s value between $700 and $900 million. The current owner bought the tallest building in Boston (and all of New England) back in 2006, near the peak of the housing/commercial real estate dual bubbles, for $1.3 billion however, current estimates put the I. ![]() One of Boston’s landmark buildings, the John Hancock Tower, is facing foreclosure. ![]()
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