Bank of America Center

The Bank of America Center is a Postmodernist skyscraper designed by Morris-Aubry Architects, and built between 1985 and 1988 in Orlando, FL.

Bank of America Center is not the only name you might know this building by though. It is common for companies to want to attach their names to iconic buildings when they move in, or for the general public to come up with nicknames, and this one is no exception. The Bank of America Center is also known, or has been known as, NationsBank at duPont Centre, or Barnett Bank Center.

Its precise street address is 390 North Orange Avenue, Orlando, FL. You can also find it on the map here.

Morris-Aubry Architects was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design.

That being said, architecture is a complex discipline involving many professionals from different fields, without whom this building would have not been possible. We will surely be leaving out a lot of names here, but here is a list of the people we do know also played their part in making the Bank of America Center a reality:

• Pillar-Bryton Company as the Main Developer
• CHP & Associates in charge of MEP Engineering

The Bank of America Center can be categorized as a Postmodernist building.

The Bank of America Center was completed in 1988. At that time Postmodernism was the prevailing style. Fresh, bold and daring, architects were exploring the freedom of designing without having to follow the strict, sometimes arbitrary rules of a specific architectural movement (which ironically became a movement itself). The Bank of America Center was therefore every much in line with what the architecture community, and the people liked and wanted at the time.

The facade in this case is non-load bearing, which means that it does not serve as a structural element, and therefore the architects had total freedom to work on its design without worrying about the support of the building.

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features light-colored limestone panels with a pattern of rectangular windows that repeats on all sides.

One of the sides features three setbacks, each topped by a black slanted roof with a cornice and Gothic-style spires on each side.