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Bank of America Plaza is a skyscraper located in between Midtown Atlanta and Downtown Atlanta, otherwise known as the SoNo district of Atlanta, Georgia. At the tower is the 68th-tallest building in the world. It is the 10th tallest building in the U.S. and the tallest building in Georgia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.emporis.com/building/bankofamericaplaza-atlanta-ga-usa )〕 It is also the tallest building in any U.S. state capital, and the tallest building in the United States outside of Chicago and New York City, although it will soon lose that title to three currently under-construction skyscrapers including the Comcast Innovation and Technology Center in Philadelphia, which will surpass Bank of America Plaza by 81 feet. It has 55 stories of office space and was completed in 1992, when it was called NationsBank Plaza. Originally intended to be the headquarters for Citizens & Southern National Bank (which merged with Sovran Bank during construction), it became NationsBank's property following its formation in the 1991 hostile takeover of C&S/Sovran by NCNB. , the largest tenant is the law firm of Troutman Sanders. == Architectural details == The building was developed by Cousins Properties and designed by the architectural firm Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates LLC. Designed in the Art Déco style, it was built in only 14 months, one of the fastest construction schedules for any 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 on Peachtree Street, the tower faces its border streets at a 45-degree angle to maximize the views to the north and south (midtown and downtown). There is a 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 percent) gold leaf. The open-lattice steel pyramid underneath the obelisk glows yellow-orange at night due to lighting. Originally, the lattice was designed to be clad in glass, but the engineers failed to take the weight of the glass into account. 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, with the same type of yellow-orange high-pressure sodium (HPS) lighting now used in most street lights. Its design has been characterized as similar to the Messeturm in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Some low-power TV stations have shared an antenna at the top of the building: WANN-LP 32, WANN-CD 29, and construction permits for WTBS-LP 26 and WTBS-LD 30. (These are two co-owned stations and their digital companions, all co-owned; the digital ones have moved or applied to move to the North Druid Hills site.) Also on the building was WDTA-LP 53, which moved about a half-mile (800m) south to the SunTrust Plaza, where it switched to digital TV in 2010. In addition, the tower also hosts several amateur radio repeaters. Bank of America Plaza Atlanta is colloquially known as The Pencil Building due to its pencil-like shape,〔"http://www.reddit.com/r/Atlanta/comments/16j2dx/anyone_know_a_way_to_get_to_the_top_of_the_pencil/"〕 or The Cigarette due to its illuminated top.〔"http://www.worldwizzy.com/learn/index.php/Bank_of_America_Plaza_%28Atlanta%29#Nicknames"〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bank of America Plaza (Atlanta)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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