Seven Seas Mariner is a cruise ship operated by Regent Seven Seas Cruises (formerly Radisson Seven Seas Cruises). She was the first all-suite, all-balcony ship in the world, and was awarded Ship of the Year in 2002 by Ocean and Cruise News.
The John Hancock Center. Chicago, Illinois, 1969, 1127ft, Steel. New Heights for Chicago. The John Hancock Center (Figure 1) was completed in 1968 by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM) at 876 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.
Completed in 1870, the city's first skyscraper (at Broadway and Cedar Street) amazed New Yorkers, and thousands lined up to take rides in its elevators. Designed by Arthur Delavan Gilman and Edward Hale Kendall on an 8,000-square-foot site, the gray granite Equitable building was impressive from many standpoints.