Bank of America Corporate Center
Charlotte, USA

HEIGHT: 265m/871 feet
FLOORS: 60 floors
COMPLETION: 1992
ARCHITECT: Cesar Pelli

Known as the Bank of America Corporate Center, this building, which houses the central offices of the bank, is found in the geographical, historical and economic center of Charlotte. Its construction responded to both the economic profitability of the promoter and the possibility of culturally and economically revitalizing the city centre, forming part of the public complex.
Two garden squares and the Founders Hall (a civic and shopping center) are found in the base of the tower. Its silhouette, which is characterized by the breeching towards the interior in ascending direction of the curved facades, is a landmark in the cityscape.
The main facades are slightly curved and stepped back as the tower rises. The plinth is clad in black granite and the entrance framed by black marble columns. The pronounced use of stone on the lower floors stands for the stability of the building and - hopefully - of the company too. The vertically oriented window apertures, surrounded by beige granite, underscore the builder's desire to draw the gaze of the observer upwards, over each of the setbacks to the almost gothic style finial, where an ingeniously illuminated crown dominates the skyline of Charlotte by night.

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8.5/10 - This tower has good, soaring height, helped by the setbacks and indentations, and the graceful curve to the whole facade. The sleek facade dances in the light well, though it might be a bit bland on cloudy days. Even the top is pretty nice, especially at night.
THe tower's still a bit bulky, however, and I can't tell how it relates to the base.
Still, a nice, crisp tower overall, with a certain amount of elegance.

Cesar likes these types of highrises. He built a few here including PPG Place.

8/10

The best crown on any buildings I have ever seen! It is awesome at night! It lights up fantasticly! It is awesome looking during the day too! The height is great, the design is great, I cannot say one bad thing about this building! No wonder Bank of America made it the HQ, it is the best Bank of America building IMO.

For height, design, and crown...I give the Bank of America Corporate Center a 10!

One of my all-time favs! Beautiful crown, perfect setbacks, the curved walls, height... perfect ->10/10!:D

easily one of the best and most beautiful skyscrapers in America!!..if not the world....
everything from the setbacks to the crown is perfect....Pelli really outdid himself designing this masterpiece...a brilliant and stunning landmark for Charlotte...this beauty gets the ultimate...10/10!!

This is a very nice scraper, the curved façade and the setbacks work very well, and even the little square windows fit in. The crown is great, all except for the very top ring of, um, spires? sticks? anyway, the setbacks just end abruptly there and result in a kind of bottle look. It would have been great if the sticks tapered off into a tall spire. 8.5/10

The crown tops off the building very well, and it's setbacks are layed out very well.

The only thing it loses a mark for, is it's slightly boring facade.

9.5/10

10/10! its tall, slim and good lookin!
love it... especially the crown, power of glory!

Who could possibly go past its beautiful elegant curved ediface's and its horizonal and vertical setbacks.

I've always liked this one's spiked birthday cake candel crown.

Looks beautiful in the night shots...and let's face it....the job of a scraper is 24/7.

An elegant tall.

A definite yummy 10/10

9/10

This building is extremely pleasing to the eye.

Great building, reminds me of One Canada Square in London (also designed by Pelli) but with a better crown.

9/10 :)

9/10

one of the most beautiful building on earth

This what i call a superscraper : 10 !

Originally posted by De Snor
This what i call a superscraper : 10 !

-:yes: right, also 10/10

very very nice building especially at night ,i give it 9.5/10:)

What a great illumination! ->9.5/10

I can't imagine living in a city where there was one scraper to talk about.

This one is nice enough (nice crown) but gee willikers, it is so over-rated because there's nothing else much going on. It's reputation has been skewed by fervent hometown boosterism, but PR doesn't make great architecture. At best, it is above average.

:moods: :baaa: :? :bash: ;) :guns1: :bleep: :rant: :mad: >( :cheers: :angel1: :cool: :D :)

10/10 i always liked this one ya know.

:moods: :baaa: :? :bash: ;) :guns1: :bleep: :rant: :mad: >( :cheers: :angel1: :cool: :D :) :moods: :baaa: :? :bash: ;) :guns1: :bleep: :rant: :mad: >( :cheers: :angel1: :cool: :D :)

My absolute favorite scraper, partly because I can drive up to Charlotte and see it in person whenever I want. This is what a skyscraper should be. 9/10.

this building has height, and plus i like those things on the top 7.5

The Messiah likes this a lot!Sorry for speaking in the 3th person :cool:
9.0/10

Thank you, Raffles City! :)

I like this building enormously, but the top is somehow too dainty for such an enormous building.

8.5

One of my favorite buildings...i give it a 10!
Love the crown...

10/10 That crown!

Is that the same cladding as OCS in canary wharf? Its much more interesting and beautiful anyway.

9

Boy the top must be painful to fall on. :D 10/10.

Stunningly beautiful! 10/10 - Bank of America makes some pretty damn fine towers.

Looks like a proud building and that's O.K. with me.

This building is quite awesome, talk about a dramatic pinnacle!
9.5

ohhh my god!!!I'm melting......Why this building is look soo good!!!Glorious Phenomenon!!!....Pelli's Masterpiece... 10/10

8.5/10

The top is great at night.. :cool:

8.5/10

9/10 Another Pelli masterpiece. :D

i love that crown, very unique

Eh...we have more than just one skyscraper to chat about. My personal favorite is the Hearst and the pink mirrored glass on the Arlington is making it's way up the charts! 8-)

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theres something about the top half of this building that slightly reminds me of 2IF in hong kong. infact it reminds me of many other designs aswell. not exactly original but it's capped off well and lit nicely at night. a nice skyscraper but not mind blowing. 7/10

9/10
In my opinion it looks like One Canada square crossed with 2IFC.

Cool building! 8/10

8.5/10

Nice spire, extra point at night.

10/10

:eek:

:applause:

10/10

Awesome tower!
This building gets a perfect 10 in my book! ;) :cool:

http://hometown.aol.com/hjohnnmike/images/scrapers%20and%20church.jpg

BoA and Hearst Publishing Tower (in foreground)
http://hometown.aol.com/hjohnnmike/images/boa%20and%20hearst.jpg

I love this building! Pelli is so good at setbacks! The crown is one of my favorite! I just wish it was taller! 9.5/10. It would've been a 10 if it was taller!

Tall and good looking
9.5/10

10/10:)

10/10

Do we have more pictures of this building?

10/10

10/10

9.5/10 'Nuff said.

http://www.plcmc.org/galleryL/images/charlotte.gif

9/10


I like this one.


:okay:

Nice! Charlotte's looking good

Do we have more pictures of this building?

I have a few...

http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/experience-charlotte/images/bofafromijl.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/experience-charlotte/images/bofa2.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/experience-charlotte/images/hugebofa.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/experience-charlotte/images/bofaandstatue.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/experience-charlotte/images/greenandbofa.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/experience-charlotte/images/bofaatnight.jpg


Interior:
http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/experience-charlotte/images/insidebankofamerica2.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/experience-charlotte/images/insidebankofamerica2.jpg

These pictures are orgasmic! Great contribution!:okay:

Originally posted by nostyle

I have a few...

http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/experience-charlotte/images/bofafromijl.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/experience-charlotte/images/bofa2.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/experience-charlotte/images/hugebofa.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/experience-charlotte/images/bofaandstatue.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/experience-charlotte/images/greenandbofa.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/experience-charlotte/images/bofaatnight.jpg


Interior:
http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/experience-charlotte/images/insidebankofamerica2.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/experience-charlotte/images/insidebankofamerica2.jpg

Here are some more by me.


http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/3097/746dscf0415.jpg



http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/3097/746dscf0022.jpg



http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/3097/746dscf0357.jpg



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8.5/10
Nice tower, beautiful sharp crown. Looks very majestic at night.

I like Pelli, but this building is boring, the superior part is very
ugly 7,5/10

10/10 You can call it hometown boosterism but I can't help but love this building.

Now, this is a skyscraper. It's not even surrounded by freeways and parking lots like Atlanta's biggest buildings.

9

Beautiful soaring elegant beauty this is. Looks even ahead of its time for 1992 with its crowned top. Would look even better with a central spire IMHO. Love the slight curved facade too. Would get extra points if it were a little more sleek.

Cheers

A central spire!!! Great idea!!!!

7/10

It is interesting and frames the city well. The crown is great.

the shape of this one's perfect, and the top's very cool and original at the same time, but i don't this building deserves to be the boa headquarters (i think they should of stayed in sf)

this one's my third favorite of cesar peli (after key and 2ifc) 9

i don't this building deserves to be the boa headquarters (i think they should of stayed in sf)


Why?

New downtown grocery store and residential project with BoKU (Bank of the Known Universe) poking up behind...

http://publish.hometown.aol.com/hjohnnmike/images/grocerystoredowntown.jpg

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH...Yummmy. 10/10.

[QUOTE=UrbanDesigner]New downtown grocery store and residential project with BoKU (Bank of the Known Universe) poking up behind...

"BoKU"! LMAO!

One of my Favorites..... def a 10/10... So technically, this building and the southtrust building in Atlanta are the tallest in the southeast(given that the BoA Atlanta is shorter without the bs steel cage)?

very beautiful tower specially at night.....................9.5

One of my Favorites..... def a 10/10... So technically, this building and the southtrust building in Atlanta are the tallest in the southeast(given that the BoA Atlanta is shorter without the bs steel cage)?

It would be the tallest, no?

New downtown grocery store and residential project with BoKU (Bank of the Known Universe) poking up behind...

http://publish.hometown.aol.com/hjohnnmike/images/grocerystoredowntown.jpg


That is my photo. Please remove that photo and all photos of mine from your webspace ASAP. Thank you. :)

its as nice as the messeturm in frankfurt

Where are the images of the building with a potential spire???

9/10

Love the crown :)

Not very imaginative. Appears more like a corncob stuck into the ground and topped with tractor gears. Another example of the small town's attempt at unique and inovative architecture, but an utter failure. Another charlotte eye sore.

Also, please try to remember that one tall building does not make a skyline.

9/10 I like the top

Since I can sit and stare at this building from my patio, I think maybe I've taken it for granted.....thanks to all the posts to make me realize how perfect this building truly is.....although, there are very few building in Charlotte's skyline that are perfect....we just need some more modern glass archicture for diveristy, everything is a bit too post modern and granite clad.

10/10 for BofA

sorry, I misspoke...there many buildings in Charlotte's skyline that ARE perfect....too early in the morning I suppose....let me take another quick peek out the office window....yep 10/10

Perhaps I'm guilty of homerism, but I honestly think this building has a legit case as one of the best in the nation.

The design, first of all, is splendid. You can see hints of a lot of different influences: Gothic, Art Deco, Postmodern, and so forth. The lobby is dominated by a huge fresco, which leaves a fantastic impression if you only get to experience the building from the very bottom.

Also, since BoA has funded the three tallest towers in Charlotte, the buildings that dominate the skyline "match" each other. Even the non-BoA scrapers seem to fit well with the design of those three. And, of course, the lynchpin is this building. Essentially it's the style-setter for the entire downtown area.

It's not too flamboyant, not too artsy, not too aloof. I find it very hard to imagine a better design for the largest building in this particular city.

9.5/10

ALmost exactly like a bunch of other Pelli designs...but they are good, and this one was one of the earliest of them. I think its the best too, I like the unusual crown.

Elegant design, stepping back to a filligreed crown. Looks very feminine. The Queen of Charlotte. 8.5/10

7.5, overrated

http://www.city-data.com/cpic/ufiles1082.jpg

Picture by Wayne Moss

This is one of the most beautiful scrapers in the World. That crown is amazing and the color well fit. 10/10.

wow impresionante 10.. :)

a true beauty! i love the top! 10

Oh yeah this skyscraper is so very beautiful and the top really compliments it and is one of my favorite tops in the world. This tower also looks very cool at night. 10/10

Those who voted 3 or less must be out of their mind...this is one of the best I've ever seen.

Those who voted 3 or less must be out of their mind...this is one of the best I've ever seen.

No kidding because omg this one even looks very good to eat!! Mmmmm, like a tall cake covered with iceing and cream on top!!

A nice and modern art-deco tower.

Those who voted 3 or less must be out of their mind...this is one of the best I've ever seen.

I'd imagine there are jealous forum members from other places maybe? :runaway:

9/10
Wow ... that crown is stunning. Combined with the setbacks on the upper part of the building, it has an amazing pinnacle. :)

9.5/10. I like the crown -- it looks shiny and glassy. Would have been the tallest in the southeast too but BofA Charlotte's evil cheating cousin in Atlanta stole the honor with that unfinished spire. 1/2 point off for stealing the corporate HQs from Frisco's, but at least it is the second original BofA after that one.

Uptown Charlotte, September 11th, 2002

Nice view of the BoA tower

http://www.skengines.com/joji/%5B13%5D%20September%202002%20-%20Downtown%20Charlotte,%20September%2011th/slides/P9110095.JPG

http://www.skengines.com/joji/%5B13%5D%20September%202002%20-%20Downtown%20Charlotte,%20September%2011th/slides/P9110094.JPG

http://www.skengines.com/joji/%5B13%5D%20September%202002%20-%20Downtown%20Charlotte,%20September%2011th/slides/P9110096.JPG

http://www.skengines.com/joji/%5B13%5D%20September%202002%20-%20Downtown%20Charlotte,%20September%2011th/slides/P9110097.JPG

Those twin lights were a tribute to the WTC? I thought only New York had them.

yeah, Charlotte had a tribute for 1 night in 2002.

10

Yep, that's about perfect.

6/10

9/10

8/10, This one is beautiful.

10 :)

10/10

I love it!

The best skyscraper in the south.

10/10.

8/10

I give the Bank of America Corporate Center a 10 not only because of its pleasingness to the eye but because I know of only a few other buildings that are so entwined with their city and all their city represents. This building is currently the tallest in town, and stands on one corner of the historic intersection that gave birth to this city in the 1750's. In this city named for Queen Charlotte, this building sports an unmistakable crown, and has exactly the number of floors as there were years in Queen Charlotte's reign. Meanwhile in the lobby, the walls crawl with allegorical frescoes of the city's and the state's founding, their industries, their people, and their future.

So... as I said, there are very few buildings out there so brimming with the symbolism of their setting. Everything about this building says Charlotte and not only that but North Carolina. And therefore, since it's not only beautiful to look at, but is an utterly perfect match for its city and state, I give it a 10.

Still love this building, but I'm starting to think it perhaps has one too many step-backs.

the top looks scary. Why? coz it looks like a sharp picket fence around the top! :p But it is a very nice building!

I love this building.....my question to ya'll is.....when will it be overtaken by a new "tallest" in Charlotte?

I love the BOA center, but I can only hope it will be overtaken in the next 5 years. I have a feeling Wachovia may have something in the works to overtake its Charlotte Rival.

Here are renderings of two new buildings > 50 stories for central Charlotte (neither will be taller than BOA's headquarters).

http://www.vuecharlotte.com/img/west.jpg
http://www.theghazicompany.com/images/future_epicentre_large.jpg

http://www.southernwinds.com/uptown.jpg

Very beautiful building, but the facade has always look a little off. I give it a 9/10. :okay:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/Bank_of_America_Corporate_Center.jpg
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/phallic/Bank_charlotte.jpg
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10/10 - a beautiful Pelli design. Btw, Charlotte's skyline is great and only getting better.

Lovely crown, 8

Love the design and love the roof. Looks great at night. 9.5/10

Nice top 8/10

I like the top part from the first setback to the crown. I find the crown itself a bit... Aggressive, I don't know. But the lighting is nice. The bottom part is a bit dull.
6.

10/10

The most beautiful building in the world since the Chrysler.

8.5/10 Nice Pelli!

Amazing setbacks, beatiful crown, brilliant lighting. Near perfect. 9.5.

4/10 i hate it

All we need is more 13-year-olds making idiotic votes on these polls....

Great tower, it's simply beautiful :D 9,5/10

Not very stylish, lacks originality.

Quite like it 8.5/10

Beuatiful tower with a great top. 9/10.

Amazing top. 10/10

10/10

The crown does it, the rest is a bit dull, nevertheless a nice builing 7.5/10

8/10.

7 for me

I love the crown, 8.5/10

I quite like this. The roof is different. 8/10.

I like the top. 8.5/10

Amazing setbacks, beatiful crown, brilliant lighting. Near perfect. 9.5.

The lighting is pretty incredible...it's also very nice from the street level and how it looks on the landscape.

9/10

7/10

9/10

I've never seen it before but this crown :D ... I like it

beautiful crown beautiful scraper 9.5/10

amazing top 9/10

Another brilliant design by the master. ALL HAIL CESAR! 9.5

Great design but don't like the colour.

very good scraper. 9/10

this is one of my favorites. 10/10

8/10

I like the roof :)

8.5/10

9/10. Great soaring height. Setbacks leading up to the crown (looks like an overturned chandelier) give it great form. The facade is very sharp but could possibly be a bit more lively. Sensational tower.

8,5/10

10/10

9/10 the top is excellent...

7.5/10

looks nice! 10/10

8.5/10.

9/10

I think I'll give it a 9/10.

I'm in a love/hate relationship with the building as far as my own opinion of the way it looks.

7/10

7.5/10

What A Beautiful Building................9.5/10

Very nice. Looks like the right buildin for the right place. 8

Thanks to Patrick!

http://www.skyscraperpicture.com/charlotte03.jpg
http://www.skyscraperpicture.com/charlotte07.jpg

Beautiful...9/10 from me

I like this building a lot. Similar to 2IFC (same architect) but the top is just so much better. Classly facade too 9/10

10/10

you cant do much better than this!
The top is just amazing
10/10

Hi folks from a guy was grew up in Charlotte! Charlotte is known as the Queen City, named after Queen Charlotte of England. Hence the breathtaking crown sitting atop Bank of America's crown jewel.

Folks, does it get any better than this? I give it a strong 10.

Bank of America Corporate is a hallmark of grace and elegance..soars over Charlotte's fast growing skyline as a sort of beacon. A beacon to banking, business, and money---three things Charlotte is renown for.

I predict a taller building will be built soon in Uptown Charlotte. I just hope whatever follows as the new tallest will echo BofA's tower's prestige:)

9/10
Beautiful building..

I loove this buildong the top is unique.

I like it. 9/10

I hear you, lancetop, but unless they can get Pelli to design that tower too, I wouldn't hold my breath....**SIGH**

It's a beautiful building
10/10

I think most of us agree this is one of the sharpest high rises in the States:) :)

This is my cup of tea, as one says. It is tall, but I wish it was even taller. 9,5/10

10 of course, one of america's most beautiful new skyscrapers!:okay:

One of the best east coasrt buildings. It looks pretty good in that city too.

9.5/10 BEAUTIFUL

9/10
i like the top ;)

8.5/10

10/10 classy setbacks. clean looking. the crown is a little overdone but still works. This is easily one of the 10 best US has to offer. My only qualm is that I wish it broke 1000 ft. It would look even better still

This s a worthy successor to Chrysler Building and Empire State Building. It's a little pity this one wasn't build in some biger city and made 100m higher. It would be among world most famous skyscrapers then.

6/10

I still find it hard to believe anyone could rate this skyscraper less than 9.5 (????)

7/10

I only like the crown effect.

10/10 like the building, but with all those garage's around( don't know it has that typical southern city thing going on)

9/10 The crown looks like a "crown"

one of my favorites......9/10

very elegant, almost perfect, just amazing! 9,5/10

very nice tower, classic. 8/10

9/10 Nice classic

8/10

I love this building!

9,5/10

The height is great, and the setbacks are nice. The inverted chandelier top is nice at night, but not as nice in the day. 8.5 real nice.

It's nice one for the city indeed

6/10

7/10

i don't like it so much, that seems me a quite massive tall

7,5/10

9.5/10

7/10 it's nice

Are there plans to build taller in Charlotte?

that's incredible! 10/10

Stunning :okay:

6/10

7/10

9/10.

looks really great with the crown on it 9/10

Pelli's best!! 10/10

Are there plans to build taller in Charlotte?

No, not in the near future. There was one plan by Wachovia several years back to trump it with a supertall, but those never materialized.

IMHO, anything built taller than this one would have to be absolutely spectacular. Its design and location are obviously intended to make it the centerpiece of the city.

8/10, i really like the tower, mostly the top of it.

9.5/10 one of my fav.

7.5/10

pretty good

9.5/10

7/10

i like the crown 8/10

A gorgeous crown and a landmark for Charlotte. It's one of my favorites. 9/10!

9.5

Post modern neo art deco revival?
The only thing better is the original art deco towers from the 1920s/30s.
9/10

Don't like it very much. 7/10

9/10.. Nice :yes:

I love the top of the tower

8/10

9/10!!

Very nice

8.5

nice 9/10

8/10

10. impressive!

Perfect, nothing else to say about it. The colour, the facide, the plint, all 10 out of 10.

9/10
I've always liked this skyscraper.

Bank of America: One of the worst banks ever! :ohno:

The building is nice though :) Prolly would give it 6 or 7 out of 10.

9 / 10

Nice.

9.5 /10

8/10

9 / 10

8.5 /10

The colors are a bit off.

8/10 love the top and looks great at night.

9 / 10

a typical "Cesar Pelli"

9 / 10

a typical "Cesar Pelli"

Yes.

9 / 10

This skyscraper is just gorgeous, specially the top :cool:
9/10

9 / 10

9 / 10

what an extremely nice building. 9.5/10

Great top. 8

9/10

7/10

9/10:)