SunTrust Plaza
Atlanta, USA

HEIGHT: 265m/871 feet
FLOORS: 60 floors
COMPLETION: 1992
ARCHITECT: John Portman & Associates

Designed and developed by internationally renowned Architect, John Portman, Jr., SunTrust Plaza is an award winning 60-story office tower in downtown Atlanta. It is the signature foundation of the SunTrust Plaza office, retail, and parking complex. Completed in 1992, it was originally named One Peachtree Center and was part of the Peachtree Center Complex. SunTrust Bank became majority owner of the building in 1997.

SunTrust Plaza offers a variety of floor sizes to accommodate all types of offices. Floor plans range from 21,500 to 27,000 square feet. The faceted exterior provides up to 36 corner offices on an average floor enabling executives to have spectacular views of downtown, Buckhead, and Stone Mountain. Finishes throughout the building are elegant and timeless creating a high-end business environment attractive to law, financial, and other professional firms.

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This one is another one of my favorites in Atlanta. I love the design and the facade. The base is really cool. I went into the main lobby once and like thedesign of the lobby. The skywalks over Peachtree Street are really nice too. This building is one of many highlights in the Atlanta Skyline! 9/10! :D

I gave 8.5
I like the top part of the building though
It is a real good looking building

This is SunTrust Bank Headquarters.....hint the name! :).

I give it a 9/10

ABC's Good Morning America was in SunTrust Plaza on Thursday broadcasting live. If you watched it, you saw how awesome SunTrust Plaza is. If you didn't see it, there is a video of the show in the forums.
They were on the 51st floor. If you look at the first pic, right in the corner right before you get to the cubes is an open deck where you can look out upon. They were live from up there looking at the Atlanta skyline. The show was absolutley awesome. No wonder they picked SunTrust Plaza to do the show from, it is one of Atlanta's best buildings and 2nd tallest.

Here is another pic of SunTrust Plaza from atop Bank of America. SunTrust Plaza covers up 2 of Atlanta's downtown buildings because it is so tall. You can barely see both of them.

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You really love this building dont you? :D
Are you from Atlanta? ;)

I was torn between giving it an 8 or 8.5 but I'll settle for the latter.

Yep, I am a proud Atlantan!

8, nice building, but it sorta looks like the NTT Docomo (spelling?) in japan:D

Unusual looking, but nice proportions. I like Atlanta's tallest better though. 8/10

screams Atlanta

8.5

tays

8/10 - Good height, the facade dances with the light, and the "mini setbacks" add interest. The night lighting is also very good.

A larger setback or two at the base might have been nice, and, while I appreciate the green & growing thought, the plants on top of the entrace make it look like a huge flower pot....I'm also not quite sure about the crown, but at least - God be praised! - it isn't another flat roof!

Love how it looks like a bunch of building blocks. :D The large amount of setbacks and top are quite good.

7.5/10

9/10 :guns1:

how did I miss this one? very neat. 9/10

Originally posted by SteelCity46
how did I miss this one? very neat. 9/10

I know how you missed it! You just didn't see it. ;)

10/10, my favorite atlanta skyscraper. i love all the intricate features of the facade, the mini setbacks, the way the crown tapers off in a sort of subtractive, cubic way. just an amzing tower, one of the best.

Interesting building :)

8/10

this tower always reminds of the NBA post game shows on TNT and TBS . . they showed an aerial of it all lit up at night in the intro . .great building. . . 8.5/10

The terracing/setbacks are WAY overdone. However, I do like the blocky massing, which hearkens back to a more historical form. And like many other Atlanta highrises, this tower is a real beauty at night.

7.0/10

probably one of the better buildings in Atlanta, the design is intricate without being overtly busy..it looks great at night too...
8.5/10

edit: double post

I just noticed that SunTrust Plaza and Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte are both 871 ft and 60 floors. Why does Bank of America rank #53 if they are tied with height and floors? Did they rank it 53 because "Bank" comes before "Sun" in the alphabet?

Waiting for an explanation or a simple guess....YAWWWWWN!

Westin they are in the process of rearranging the top 100 as some buildings have topped out and others have fallen off the list.
Don't sweat it the update will be done soon..!

Thanks bob!

There's glitz...there's glam...it's good. Me likey. I've always thought this was one of the better 'scrapers in the ATL skyline...a few of them fall short of lovely. SunTrust is a real 'beaut though.

8.5

(Not a typical Portman, though.)

Suntrust should be higher than B of A in Charlotte. The top of the building is not a crown or spire. They're actually ocupiable floors where all the chief executives of Suntrust work. The occupiable floors go all the way to the top of the building. Basically, it's the tallest building in the south to the highest floor.

Originally posted by Rail Claimore
Suntrust should be higher than B of A in Charlotte. The top of the building is not a crown or spire. They're actually ocupiable floors where all the chief executives of Suntrust work. The occupiable floors go all the way to the top of the building. Basically, it's the tallest building in the south to the highest floor.

Tru Dat!

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Here are fantastic pics of SunTrust Plaza's top. Here are all the executive offices! Yum!

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7.5/10

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What he said, only I'll give it a 7.5/10.

Nice lightning at night! :cool: Nice facade too!
7.5/10

Does anyone know about the proposed 500 foot SunTrust Plaza Phase III? Any good renederings out there? Or any idea where they are going to put this thing?

awesome looking "box pyramid".. and the facade aint that bad 7.5

Here is SunTrust Plaza from the 15th floor of the Museum Tower at Centennial Hill. I'd love to live in this apartment!

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Looks over the top to me.

7 I don't know how to explain it... but for some reason... I love this building lit up at night... but not in the day...

I like the roof, but it doesn't combine with the rest of the building, which looks vague.

A "classic" beauty...10

I've never seen this building before until I went to Atlanta. This building is way better in person. It just seems way more complex. I like the black and the unique architecture on the building, seriously one of the coolest buildings I have seen. I give it a 10.

Interesting... I like how parts of it extrude from the core and the crown is nice at night too.. :)

8.5/10

7.5/10 Blocky yet not very interesting. I like the night pics tho.

Seven.

7-10 It looks good

i cant belive i didnt vote, i thought i did. i think this is john portmans masterpiece! 10, the light at the top is unbelieveable. i rented a book from the library here in georgia about john portmans building and it has this building on the front, if u ever see this book take a look, i think the title is just john portman

Different top, 8/10

6/10

Nice top, but it doesn't fit in with the bottom.

5/10

6.5/10...The facade kind of looks dirty, which isn't good. I like the lego block stacking to form the top though. It makes up for the day view with the night view too.

7/10 :)
I like the top of the building, and it all looks well lit at night, but during the day it looks quite plain and boxy, apart from the pyramid at the top.

ugly facade, nice form

-> 7

8.5/10

Nice tower

Nice building
8.5/10

8.5/10

7.5/10
Nice & tall. I like the night time photos. The roof is the best part if it.

I do not like anything, the design is horrifying 2/10

7/10

5/10

is cool~ 8.5/10

7.5

Don't like the look of giant bricks on its facade, makes it look as though out of the 70's or something. Has a fantastic looking base though.

5/10 sorry but I don´t like it

too terraced like for my full liking, and the roof doesn't fit the rest of the building well. i don't really like this one, but i think boa atlanta, 1 atlantic, 191 peachtree, and westin are all good atlanta buildings.

7

8
Pretty good because of the top.

Check out this photo of SunTrust Plaza... FROM ABOVE!

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Freaky!

Thats awesome! :eek:

Its so detailed and intricate from the top.

Awesome photo! That top is amazing.

very beautiful................8.5

Great building.....it really is the TALLEST in atlanta. This building and the BoA in charlotte deserve to be the tallest in the southeast....not the steel cage cheater

Bank of America has a spire. Who cares about height, as long as it looks good.;)

Great building.....it really is the TALLEST in atlanta. This building and the BoA in charlotte deserve to be the tallest in the southeast....not the steel cage cheater
Charlotte has a spire too, so in reallity, Charlotte's BoA is a cheater too.

7.5/10

I wish Atlanta had ONE dense skyline, not scattered throughout!! Is it like Houston and is not strict on ZONING???

It's strict on zoning, it doesn't have skyscrapers all over the place. They go in a line down Peachtree. There is 3 major buisness districts: Buckhead, Midtown, and Downtown.

It's strict on zoning, it doesn't have skyscrapers all over the place. They go in a line down Peachtree. There is 3 major buisness districts: Buckhead, Midtown, and Downtown.

What's the point of 3 CBD'S, WOULDN'T ONE DENSE SKYLINE BE BETTER???

6/10

This idea has such potential, but it was carried out only to be an average building. I like the terracing, find the color ok. I really like the very top part, except that it is ruined by the corners. If the top was more pyramidal I woould like it better, it just doesnt fit. Take the blocks at the very corner where the lower facade meets the crown and remove them and this building would be an 8 or so. I would soar more and looke more elegant and finished, because the rest of the building does a good job of doing that.

What's the point of 3 CBD'S, WOULDN'T ONE DENSE SKYLINE BE BETTER???
I actually like it how it is, I wouldn't want it any other way.

Really neat idea, I think the blocks do a lot to push our ideas of what the top of a building should (or could) look like. To my eyes I think it could've used a bit more height, it just looks disproportionately wide to me.

BTW, I don't think it's fair at all to accuse the Charlotte BoA of "cheating", considering the spire serves a reasonable purpose as to the appearance of the building and adds very little in height. It's nothing like the steel-cage monstrosity in Atlanta, which adds hundreds of feet to the height.

Ooh, I quite like this one but doesn't make it to one of my favorites. 7/10

yep! like it! 8

5...it looks too lego-ish to me

The surroundings really add to the building. Most pictures you will find give this building no justice. It is amazing. At ground the level the architecture really shines

Interesting crown, and the setbacks are neat, but it doesn't seem to have much 'soar'. It needs to be slimmer, or perhaps a spire would help.

Overall I like it though.

7.5/10

4

I don't like anything about this bldg from the horrible top to the odd shapes and facade. I don't say this much about skyscrapers cuz I love most of 'em but this is ugly fo sho!

9.5/10. Well-defined facade and shine to the DT skyline. The only building to ever have a block crown - 3 stories more, but like Atlantic Center, this crown counts. I think Portman scaled this one out with Lego's way before building it. :lol:

6

The short attention span tower. Besides, I couldn't possibly give Portman any credit - bs post modern lobby with a pointless plaza in the front. One thing I can say about minimalist architecture - especially the brutalist style, is that there is uniformity. This tower looks like it doesn't know what it wants to do.

7/10

9.5 I love the lights at the very top of the building, they look really sweet in a misty fog

7/10

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Great facade.
Great crown.
Great building.
Great score.
I give it a 9.5/10.

Very nice, 8

Cool, I love the design and the cladding 9/10

Wtf ? ^^
From some angles it looks blocky-awful-lego-ish, but from some others it works absolutely great ^^
Don't really know what to think of it, but I believe it ain't that bad so I'll give it 7.

thats pretty cool. 10/10

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Incredible tower. Atlanta has one of the best skylines in the usa imo.

8.5

8.5/10

I like the concept this tower has.It's very original.

here's a picture i took of the interesting patterns and angles formed by the building...

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9/10

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A lot of the interior art work was done by John Portman
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cool interiors.. 9/10 for me

8/10

Setbacks are cool. 8.

10/10

My favorite ATL skyscraper. I love the design.

7.5!

8/10.

8.0

I like the subtle setbacks, but the crown isn't that attractive.

8/10.

It's quite unusual and looks really good. 8,5/10

One of my favorite buildings in Atlanta, second only to the Westin Peachtree.

8.5/10.0

Strange... 7.5/10

8/10

6.5/10 too much setbacks..

7. quite nice.

Nice building, all in all

four points for design
two points for height
two and a half points for distinctiveness=
8.5 points

10/10

A bit on the odd side. 7/10 from me.

8.5/10

8.0

its so strange 9/10

That is not a bad building. I really like it 8.5

nice 8/10

9.5/10. Wow. Its has such a powerful appearance, like it's thrusting upwards into the sky . I like the sleekness of the facade with the mini setbacks to make it interesting. Then the glass blocks of top really make it. Magnificant tower.

9/10

It doesnt feel very tall. 7/10

8/10

7/10

7/10

not bad

Tall, glassy yes, but I don'tlike its design.7/10

5/10

7.0/10

grrr. 8.5/10

7.5/10

7/10 too much for my eye..

an interesting design 8.5/10

7.5/10

my favorite in Atlanta, unique and interesting 8/10

7.5/10

8.5/10 Big fan of this tower and the mini setbacks. all of them. Good color scheme. love the reflective glass. this is a keeper. way to go atlanta.

4,5/10

7,5/10

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love those setbacks

love all the setbacks and the roof with the 'miniscrapers' on it 9/10

The design of this tower is amazing. 10/10

great form, great facade and funny top, i like it. 9/10

8/10 nice

5.5/10

8/10

8/10 nice building

6/10

7.5/10

8/10

7.5/10.

8/10

8/10

Not bad.

Well designed building,the setbacks in my opinion are great...I give it a 9.5 instead of a 10 because the structure does not feel or look as tall as 871ft. I've seen bank of america charlotte and suntrust plaza atlanta and for some reason b of a corporate center looks as if it's a 1000 footer and suntrust looks more like a 750 footer...Suntrust gives the illusion that it's a shorter structure than it really is. Other than that, this is a well designed structure.

top is nice but facade doesn't match it
7.5/10

Interesting....yea, that's all I have to say about this one. Not really my favorite. 6.5/10

7/10 Detailed facade gives it a sense of depth and...loving...ness

6/10
it looks like lego

Nice and pleasant 8/10 :)

10. nice pattern!

Love it...8/10.

9.5 / 10

A refreshing design.

9.5 /10

9 / 10

a little disappointed at the design of the base and entrance. don't care much for the sculptures outside either.

good thing we aren't rating the sculptures:bash:
i love this building....it must be fantastic to be a tenant.....it seems while the building is square in plan there are quite a few "corner" offices so to speak. Interesting........8

9/10 :)

9 / 10

9 / 10

6.5/10 i like the top;)

8.5 / 10

8/10

Look a bit messy.

8/10

9/10

I like the composition. 7/10 should be enough.

7/10

doesnt taper off well 4.5/10

A this one looks great! The design is HOT, i will give it a 8,5 out of 10.

Nice place

9/10.

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not impressed,5/10

9/10

The top's cool and so is the tapering but the windows and concrete make it look strange. 7.5/10

9! This building is OKAY! :righton:

8 - its okay...

I hate this building, especially the top. 5/10

8/10

really nice 8/10

8/10

8.5.:cheers: :banana:

7.5/10

6,5/10

7/10

8/10

I give this building an 8.5. It's nice overall, but there are a few things about it that just don't work for me.

9/10

8/10

like it :) 9/10

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9/10 ;)

mmmm.. Atlanta. 9/10

6/10

What a building!!

9/10

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7/10. way too blocky in my opinion

hmmm,7

5,plain

I was an undergrad in arch. as this was being built, often watching it go up from my dorm window.

This is essentially John Portman's farewell gift to Atlanta, and was intended to make up for some of the street level misgivings of his other famous glass tower in Atlanta, the Peachtree Plaza hotel. Alas, his office viewed the construction of the (now) Bank of America building as their own little Empire/Chrysler race for glory. This caused a late change in the design that, IMO, has dramatically detracted from the building:

Originally the entire top massing of glass blocks was to comprise a winter garden or, at the least, be one large space lit from within at night. The sketches were wonderful and it was a nice way to include a top to the building that a) maintained the theme and b) was fully functional besides hiding HVAC units. However, certain powers convinced the owners that wasn't crowning enough and the building needed something in lieu of a spire. Thus, the pimple-looking light fixture that has nothing else to do with the form or texture was added to the top. Now the building's crown is comically referred to as the wedding cake, with that light being a tacky decoration.

The massing theme is nice and unique, but the play could've been even more dynamic. The plaza is nice and the entry forum among Portman's best.

8

I don't like the coulour. 7,5/10

Pretty damn good.

8

love the roof ..9

8/10

8/10

I definitely love it!!!! nice job..... wonderful shot....9/10

7/10

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7/10

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7/10

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8/10

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3/10

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8/10

i just dont like that top...
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but the ground and the tower is so nice

7.

8.5

9/10

I stayed in the Hyatt right across the street from this beauty for a week. Every morning I'd look up at it, and just admire it. Most days I couldn't see the top, because it was up in the clouds. It really is a masterpiece, and by far Atlanta's best.

6/10

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SunTrust Plaza, Atlanta

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Nice Building 8/10

Too sophisticated, but still good looking. 7/10

8/10.

looks strong 8/10

9. Very good building. Regards.

8.5/10