Bank of America Plaza
Information
Location	600 Peachtree Street Northeast Atlanta, Georgia
Status	Complete
Constructed	1991-1992
Height
Antenna/Spire	1023 ft (312 m)
Technical details
Floor count	55
Cost	US$150 million
Companies
Architect	Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo and Associates
Structural Engineer	CMB Engineers, Newcomb & Boyd
Services Engineer	CMB Engineers, Newcomb & Boyd

The Bank of America Plaza is a skyscraper located in Midtown Atlanta named for its largest tenant, the Bank of America. Standing 1023 ft (312 m), it ranks as the 26th tallest building in the world. It is also the tallest building in the United States outside of Chicago and New York City, and the tallest building in any U.S. state capital. It has 55 stories of office space and was completed in 1992, when it was called the NationsBank Building. Originally intended to be the headquarters for C&S/Sovran Bank, it became NCNB/NationsBank's property following the 1991 merger of C&S/Sovran and NCNB[1].The Bank of America Plaza was the last American skyscraper built to be one of the ten tallest in the world (in the 14 years since its construction all new entries onto the top ten list have been in Asia). Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 249 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1143 × 2749 pixel, file size: 580 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): List of tallest buildings in the... Hotlanta redirects here. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... There are two skyscrapers in the United States called the Bank of America Plaza: The Bank of America Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Midtown Atlanta is a district in Atlanta, Georgia situated between the commercial and financial district of downtown to the south and the affluent residential, shopping, and nightlife district of Buckhead to the north. ... This article is about the state capital of Georgia. ... See also Banc of America Securities, Banc of America Investment Services, Inc. ... Nickname: Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City  234. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... An office is a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organisation with specific duties attached to it (see officer, office-holder, official); the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... North Carolina National Bank (NCNB) was the name taken in 1960 by American Commercial Bank of Charlotte, North Carolina. ... NationsBank was a large banking corporation in the United States, based in Charlotte, North Carolina. ...

Architectural details

Built in only 14 months (one of the fastest construction schedules for any 1,000 ft (300 m) building), The Plaza's imposing presence is heightened by the dark color of its exterior. It soars into the sky with vertical lines that reinforce its height while also creating an abundance of revenue-generating corner offices. Located over 3.7 acres (1.5 ha) on Peachtree Street, the tower faces its border streets at a 45-degree angle to maximize the views to the north and south. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1944x2592, 783 KB) I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1944x2592, 783 KB) I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Peachtree and 10th at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Peachtree Street is the main north-south street of Atlanta, Georgia. ...

There is a 90 ft (27 m) obelisk-like spire at the top of the building echoing the shape of the building as a whole. Most of the spire is covered in 23 karat (96%) gold leaf. The open-lattice steel pyramid underneath the obelisk glows orange at night due to lighting. At its most basic, this is a modern interpretation of the Art Deco theme seen in the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building. The inhabited part of the building actually ends abruptly with a flat roof. On top of this is built a pyramid of girders, which are gilded and blaze at night. The Luxor obelisk in the Place de la Concorde in Paris For other uses, see Obelisk (disambiguation). ... A modern spire on the Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, particularly a church tower. ... Carat is a measure of the purity of gold and platinum alloys. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Metal leaf. ... Asheville City Hall. ... The Empire State Building in New York The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York, NY. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York. ... The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, located on the east side of Manhattan at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. ...

Building sale

The building was developed by Cousins Properties and designed by the architectural firm Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates. According to published reports in Commercial Property News and Commercial Mortgage Alert, the building was recently sold for $436 million-- a record price at $348 per square foot-- to Bentley Forbes, a Los Angeles real estate investment firm headed by C. Frederick Wehba. This article is about the built environment. ...

Urban design

Bank of America Plaza Sign.

The skyscraper, built at a 45-degree angle to the city's street grid, is set back off of its eastern and western street boundaries, Peachtree Street and West Peachtree Street, by over 50 yards (45 m). This setback is filled, variously, by driveways, parking garage entrances, potted plants, granite staircases, and sloping lawns. Though the building directly abuts the sidewalk on North Avenue, its northern boundary, the only access to this street is through a parking garage entrance that has been frequently closed since 2001. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1944, 812 KB) I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1944, 812 KB) I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...

Some urban planners decry the building as a Corbusian "tower in a park", as it actively disengages itself from the urban environment surrounding it. Because it includes no street-level pedestrian entrance and entirely omits sidewalk-facing retail space, critics argue that the building encourages its tenants to access it primarily by car and to remain inside the complex during the day. Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), was a French, Swiss-born architect and writer, who is famous for his contributions to what now is called Modern Architecture. ... Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), was a French Swiss born architect, who is famous for his contributions to what is now called modernism, or the International Style. ...

In recent years, developers have rumored that the land under the surrounding driveways and lawns may soon be ripe for redevelopment into low- and mid-rise mixed-use buildings with street-fronting uses as the area urbanizes and the value of land in Midtown Atlanta increases. Mixed-use development refers to the practice of containing more than one type of use in a building or set of buildings. ...

Nicknames

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The Bank of America Plaza as seen from The Atlanta Botanical Garden.

It is sometimes locally referred to as the "pencil building", for its resemblance to a pencil, and by others as the "cigarette building" for the tendency of its backlit pyramidal crown to produce steam on a cold, humid night. Image File history File links BankofAmericaFromTheBotanicalGardens. ... Image File history File links BankofAmericaFromTheBotanicalGardens. ... The Atlanta Botanical Garden is a 30 acre (12 hectare) botanical garden located within Piedmont Park in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The Atlanta Botanical Garden contains several different landscapes to display a variety of plants. ... This article is about the handwriting instrument. ...

Trivia

Two low-power TV stations currently share an antenna at the top of the building: WANN-LP (32), and WDTA-LP (53), though the latter has applied to move about a half-mile south. In addition, the tower also hosts several Amateur Radio repeaters. Low-power broadcasting is the concept of broadcasting at very low power and low cost, to a small community area. ... A television station is a type of radio station that broadcasts both audio and video to television receivers in a particular area. ... A Yagi-Uda beam antenna Short Wave Curtain Antenna (Moosbrunn, Austria) A building rooftop supporting numerous dish and sectored mobile telecommunications antennas (Doncaster, Victoria, Australia) An antenna or aerial is a transducer designed to transmit or receive radio waves which are a class of electromagnetic waves. ... WANN-LP is a low-power TV station on channel 32 in metro Atlanta. ... WDTA-LP is a low-power television station in Atlanta, owned by the Word Of God Fellowship. ... Amateur radio station with modern solid-state transceiver featuring LCD display and DSP capabilities Amateur radio, often called Ham radio, is a hobby enjoyed by about six million people[1] throughout the world. ... For the album by the post-hardcore band Fugazi, see Repeater (album). ...

Its design has been characterized as similar to the Messeturm in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. MesseTurm is a skyscraper located in Frankfurt, Germany. ... Frankfurt am Main [ˈfraŋkfʊrt] is the largest city in the German state of Hessen and the fifth largest city of Germany. ...

Because of the structure's height and location two blocks from campus, Georgia Tech freshmen students are told to head towards it whenever they need to get back to campus from off-campus excursions. Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology, or Georgia Tech, is located in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. With over 16,000 students, Georgia Tech is one of four public research universities in the University System of Georgia. ...

The Bank of America Building in Atlanta is the tallest building in the southern half of the United States, from East coast to West Coast

External links

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See also

• List of tallest buildings in the United States

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