SunTrust Plaza
View of the SunTrust plaza from the Westin Peachtree Plaza
Information
Location	303 Peachtree Street NE Atlanta, Georgia  United States
Status	Complete
Constructed	1992
Roof	871 feet (265 m)
Floor count	60
Companies
Architect	John Portman & Associates

SunTrust Plaza (originally known as One Peachtree Center) is a skyscraper in downtown Atlanta. It is 871 feet (265 m) tall and has 60 stories of office space. Construction was finished in 1992 and it is currently the second-tallest building in Atlanta.

History

Architect and developer John Portman 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'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 and sculpture and furniture designed by John Portman.

See also

• Peachtree Center
• List of tallest buildings in Atlanta

References

External links

• Official website
• Emporis entry on SunTrust Plaza

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Coordinates: 33°45′47″N 84°23′13″W / 33.763, -84.387