Bank of America Tower (originally Barnett Center) is a
skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-ris ...
in
the downtown area of
Jacksonville,
Florida, at the northwest corner of Bay and
Laura
Laura may refer to:
People
* Laura (given name)
* Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cnockaert
Places Australia
* Laura, Queensland, a town on the Cape York Peninsula
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streets. At , it is the
tallest building in Jacksonville
This list of tallest buildings in Jacksonville ranks by height the skyscrapers and high-rises in the city of Jacksonville, Florida, United States. The tallest building in Jacksonville is the Bank of America Tower, which is 617 feet ...
,
and the
seventeenth-tallest in Florida (the tallest ten all being in
Miami). It was built as the headquarters of
Barnett Bank and originally named Barnett Center, but the name was changed to NationsBank Tower in 1998 after Barnett Bank was acquired by
NationsBank. NationsBank was soon acquired by
Bank of America and the building's name was changed to Bank of America Tower in 1999. The 42-floor structure was designed by
German-American architect
Helmut Jahn, and is constructed of
reinforced concrete
Reinforced concrete (RC), also called reinforced cement concrete (RCC) and ferroconcrete, is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are compensated for by the inclusion of reinforcement having hig ...
.
Gallery
File:LaurastBOAT.jpg, Entrance to the tower
File:BOATowerJacksonville-Feb2010-a.JPG, View of the tower in 2010
File:Bofatower.jpg
File:Bofajax.jpeg, View from Hogan and Church Streets
See also
*
Architecture of Jacksonville
*
List of tallest buildings in Jacksonville
References
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"Bank of America Tower" Emporis.com
Bank of America buildings
Skyscraper office buildings in Jacksonville, Florida
Postmodern architecture in Florida
Downtown Jacksonville
Northbank, Jacksonville
Architecture in Jacksonville, Florida
Laura Street
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Helmut Jahn buildings
Office buildings completed in 1990
1990 establishments in Florida