1100 Peachtree Street is one of the prominent buildings of
Midtown Atlanta, Georgia
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.
Ownership and usage
The 28-story, building is currently owned by
Manulife Financial
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. It was previously partly owned and largely occupied by telecommunications company
AT&T Corporation providing offices for its top executives. Besides AT&T, the other major occupant is law firm Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP. In November 2006, law firm Schreeder, Wheeler and Flint, LLP became the building's tenants.
Design
The octagonal building has a
ziggurat-like, stair-stepped top with lighting which accentuates the building at night. Completed in 1991, the building is 428 ft (130 m) tall. It is one of several buildings built in a period in Atlanta in which architects apparently attempted to one-up each other with their ornate and dramatically-lit "wedding-cake" skyscraper tops. 1100 Peachtree received the EPA "Energy Star" designation in 2000, the first high-rise in Atlanta to be so named. Building architects were Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Associates, Inc.
See also
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List of tallest buildings in Atlanta
External links
Officesat1100Peachtree.com/nowiki>]
Emporis.com
Skyscraper office buildings in Atlanta
Office buildings completed in 1991
1991 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
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