> Not on purpose; this is news to me too. What I don't get is, if the Prudential is shorter and only a couple blocks away, why we didn't *see* it from the top. It must have been on the side that was closed off, but I'm surprised we didn't see it from the ground. Oh well.

Here's a pretty good picture of that part of town. It was kind of hard to find a picture not taken from one side or the other, making the buildings look artifically taller than each other. (The Hancock is on the left.)

The Hancock is tucked in a corner of Copley Square, which is a few blocks from the Prudential center. They're longish blocks, granted, but the two buildings are both about a block off Boylston Street.

The Hancock is only 12 meters taller, according to http://www.skyscrapers.com/english/worldmap/city/skyscrapers/detail/0.9/101045/sro0001/rpp10/ht2/bt09/index.html