SunTrust Plaza
| SunTrust Plaza | |
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| Alternative names | One Peachtree Center |
| General information | |
| Type | Commercial offices |
| Location | 303 Peachtree Street NE Atlanta, Georgia |
| Coordinates | 33°45′47″N 84°23′13″W / 33.763°N 84.387°WCoordinates: 33°45′47″N 84°23′13″W / 33.763°N 84.387°W |
| Completed | 1992 |
| Height | |
| Antenna spire | 274.9 m (902 ft) |
| Roof | 265.48 m (871.0 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 60 |
| Floor area | 111,400 m2 (1,199,000 sq ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | John Portman & Associates |
| Developer | John Portman & Associates |
| References | |
SunTrust Plaza is a 265 m (869 ft) 60-story skyscraper in downtown Atlanta. Built as part of the Peachtree Center complex, construction was finished in 1992, and has been the second-tallest building in Atlanta since then. When completed, it was the 28th tallest building in the world, and 21st tallest building in the United States. Since Atlanta's tallest, the Bank of America Plaza, is located in nearby Midtown, SunTrust Plaza is the tallest in the downtown area. The light rotates.
Architect and developer John C. Portman, Jr. originally conceived this building in the 1980s commercial real-estate frenzy as a speculative office building. Its basic design elements, a postmodern square tower with an elaborate base and crown, represented a departure for Portman from his earlier International-style work, and are said to have been inspired by Philip Johnson's wildly successful design for midtown Atlanta's One Atlantic Center.
Ground broke in 1989 with great fanfare, but by completion in 1992, the bottom had fallen out of Atlanta's real estate market and the building sat largely empty, nearly forcing Portman into bankruptcy and causing him to lose control of most of his real estate holdings. His architectural firm, John Portman & Associates, located their headquarters in the building.
In the mid-1990s, Portman sold half his interest in the building to SunTrust Bank, which then moved its headquarters to the building, prompting a name change from One Peachtree Center to its current name.
The two-level lobby is filled with many works of art, sculpture and furniture designed by John Portman.
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