The John Hancock Center, now known as 875 North Michigan Avenue, is a 100-story, 1,128-foot (343 m) supertall skyscraper in Chicago. The skyscraper was constructed under the supervision of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), by SOM partners, Peruvian-US chief designer Bruce Graham and Bangladeshi-US structural engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan. When the building topped out on May 6, 1968, it was the second-tallest building in the world after the Empire State Building, and the tallest in Chicago.[1]
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The John Hancock Center is featured in Outbreak starting in 1 day after people where the show simply said standing like giant tombstones and no one to maintain it.
The John Hancock Center would later be feature in 250 years after people. The show features its unique X-bracing of steel beams that lace the structure of the building which owes its longevity due to extra fortifications. Even though it outlast the Sears Tower 5 decades earlier, all of its windows were blown out and centuries of moisture have corrodes the steel framing.
Its fate is at the corner of the 85th floor where its several crucial beams converge starts to rust, bend, and fracture from the stream of water dripping down through the perforated roof and once its in a critical nook, a final beam cracks and shears off causing it to collapse. The 15 floors above of the 85th floor starts a corner-line cascade down the building then sets off a catastrophic floor-by-floor implosion of the whole edifice of John Hancock Center.
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