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An Apollonaut travel guide
The place behind the detail.
An X-braced tower, a city built along a lake and a deck on the 94th floor offer several ways into the story of 360 CHICAGO.
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A landmark of structural design
Designed by Bruce Graham and Fazlur Khan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and completed in 1969, the tower is known for the X-braces on its tapering walls, which are part of its structure.
It rises 100 storeys, with offices, homes and the observation deck stacked in one building. In 1999 it received the American Institute of Architects’ Twenty-five Year Award.
The view
From the 94th floor, about 1,030 feet above the Magnificent Mile, the deck looks over Lake Michigan, Navy Pier, the Gold Coast and the downtown skyline.
On a clear day, the view reaches four states: Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan.
A change of names
The building was known for decades as the John Hancock Center. Its observatory was renamed 360 CHICAGO in 2014, and in 2018 the tower took the name of its address, 875 North Michigan Avenue.
This history belongs to the building and the people who designed and built it. The History page offers a longer introduction, and the timeline gives a short route through selected milestones.
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Sources & further reading
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