The Atlantic is a mixed-use residential

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

Atlantic Station Atlantic Station is a neighborhood on the northwestern edge of Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States comprising a retail district, office space, condominiums, townhomes and apartment buildings. First planned in the mid-1990s and officially op ...

neighborhood of

Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...

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.The Atlantic, Atlanta
''Emporis'' Retrieved 2009-08-29 At tall, it is the thirteenth-tallest building in Atlanta. Located at the southeastern corner of 17th Street NW and State Street NW, The Atlantic is one of the core structures of the award-winning brownfield development.

History

Construction on The Atlantic began on March 21, 2007, with a groundbreaking ceremony by its developers, The Novare Group.Novare news spring 2007
''The Novare Group'' Retrieved 2009-08-29 By April 2009, the building had been topped-out, with only interior work to be finished before it opened later in the year.Construction photos of The Atlantic
''Emporis'' Retrieved 2009-08-29

Design

The Atlantic is designed in the

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

style of the 1930s, with an ornamental roof lined with spikes and turrets built by local ornamental metals fabricato
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The Atlantic
''The Atlantic official site'' Retrieved 2009-08-29 At 46 stories tall, the building contains 401 suites for residential use up to in area. Sl

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Official siteEmporis database entry
{{DEFAULTSORT:Atlantic Residential skyscrapers in Atlanta Residential buildings completed in 2009