This is My Blog Attempt: Atlanta Buildings

Atlanta is home to many bussinesses and enterprizes. It has some of the tallest buildings in the country and even in the world. I enjoyed looking at a REAL skyline instead of the one they are always talking about here in Charleston. I took some pictures of some of the buildings just because I thought they were neat to look at.

These first two pictures are of the Coca-Cola Building

The Coca-Cola Headquarters is a campus in Midtown Atlanta that is home to the Coca-Cola Company. The most visible building on the site is the 29-story, 403-foot high One Coca-Cola Plaza, located on the corner of North Avenue and Luckie Street. Completed in 1979 the architects were FABRAP and the designer was Tom Pardue.

The light colored building on the left is the AT&T Midtown Center. It is a 677 foot, 47-story skyscraper. It was completed in 1982 and serves as the regional headquarters of BellSouth Communications, which does business as AT&T Southeast and was acquired as part of the AT&T acquisition of BellSouth. The other building in this picture is another bank building.

The second building in this picture is the Ernst & Young building. I took this picture because I liked the way you could see the various heights of some of the buildings.

This is the Sun Trust Building at 303 Peachtree Street NE. It is 871 feet tall and 60 stories. The architect originally conceived this building in the 1980s commercial real estate frenzy as a prospective office building. Ground broke in 1989 with a lot of attention, but by the time it was completed in 1992 the bottom had fallen out of Atlanta's real estate market. The building sat nearly empty, almost forcing the architect into bankruptcy and causing him to lose control of most of his real estate holdings. In the mid 1990s he sold half his interst to SunTrust Bank which moved its headquarters into the building, changing the name from One PEachtree Plaza to the SunTrust Building.