Bellsouth Building, Atlanta

BellSouth Center is a 676-ft. (206-meter), 47-story skyscraper in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia. Completed in 1982, it will serve as the regional headquarters of AT&T's South Division following their buyout of BellSouth. Previously, it housed BellSouth's corporate headquarters, whose employees refer to it simply as 'The Tower'. BellSouth_Building_(Atlanta) 2004 Ashley Moore. ... BellSouth_Building_(Atlanta) 2004 Ashley Moore. ... This article is about a foot as a unit of length. ... The metre, or meter (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ... For other uses, see Skyscraper (disambiguation). ... 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. ... Nickname: Hotlanta, The Big Peach, The ATL, A-Town Location in Fulton County in the state of Georgia Coordinates: Country United States State Georgia Counties Fulton, Dekalb Mayor Shirley Franklin (D) Area    - City 343. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The company, then called Southern Bell, originally planned to build the tower one block further east at the corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Peachtree Street. This would have required the razing of the historic Fox Theatre which would have been an especially great loss to the city after the downtown Loew's Grand Theatre was destroyed by fire in 1978. Tremendous opposition, protests, fundraising, and petition drives within the community prevented the Fox's demolition. Even Liberace spoke out on behalf of the "Fabulous Fox". In the end, a complicated deal was struck to build on an alternate site on West Peachtree Street. A company is, in general, any group of persons, which are known as its members, united to pursue a common interest. ... BellSouth Corporation (NYSE: BLS) is a U.S. telecommunications company based in Atlanta, Georgia. ... History is often used as a generic term for information about the past, such as in geologic history of the Earth. When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human societies. ... The Fabulous Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia is one of the grand movie palaces built in the United States in the 1920s. ... Loews Grand Theatre was a movie theater in Atlanta, Georgia. ... This politics-related article is a stub. ... Demonstrators march in the street while protesting the World Bank and International Monetary Fund on April 16, 2005. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Look up Petition in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A petition is a request to an authority, most commonly a government official or public entity. ... A community usually refers to a group of people who interact and share certain things as a group, but it can refer to various collections of living things sharing an environment, plant or animal. ... Demolition of the Old Myer Building, Perth, Western Australia. ... Liberace shows off his rings (circa 1980). ...

The building has a direct entrance to the North Avenue MARTA Station, which is located at the southern end of the complex and was built concurrently with the building (the station's structure is actually integrated with the skyscraper's foundation). In 2002, BellSouth completed construction of two additional mid-rise buildings adjacent to the tower to form its Bellsouth Midtown Center campus as part of its effort to consolidate office space around mass transit stations. North Avenue is an underground station with two side platforms. ... Marta redirects here. ... In the United States of America, transit describes local area common carrier passenger transportation configured to provide scheduled service on fixed routes on a non-reservation basis. ...

Bellsouth Building, Atlanta.

The architects who designed the tower were Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP and Rosser International, Inc. The general contractor for its construction was Beers Skanska, Inc. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1944x2592, 712 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, 712 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. ... This article is about the state capital of Georgia. ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An Ciara Danille Bowers is a person who is involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ... The architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM) was formed in Chicago in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings; in 1939 they were joined by John Merrill. ... Categories: Wikipedia cleanup | Stub | Types of companies ...

See also

• Architecture of Atlanta

  The Architecture of Atlanta, though not as distinquished as that of cities such as Chicago and New York, has seen works by most major U.S. firms and some of the more prominent architects of the 20th century, including Michael Graves, Richard Meier, and soon, Santiago Calatrava. ...