Ten Peachtree Place vs One Atlantic Center

Comparing the Ten Peachtree Place and the One Atlantic Center is interesting because they both stand in Atlanta, GA, and were completed within 2 years of each other, but they were designed by different architects.

This offers a unique glimpse at how rival designers approached projects in the same city during the same era.

The One Atlantic Center is clearly the larger tower of the two, both in terms of height and number of floors. It rises to 820ft (250m) with 50 floors above ground, while the Ten Peachtree Place reaches 256ft (78m) with 20 floors above ground.

Of course, each project may have faced different briefs or regulatory constraints, which we don't really know about and could also explain the outcome.

Both the Ten Peachtree Place and the One Atlantic Center were designed in line with the aesthetic conventions of the Postmodernism style.

At the time, this style was at the height of its popularity. So both Michael Graves and Johnson/Burgee Architects followed what was in many ways expected of them, producing designs that fit comfortably within contemporary architectural norms, rather than breaking with convention.

Both the Ten Peachtree Place and the One Atlantic Center were designed to serve as commercial towers, and that has remained their main use since their completion, serving similar roles in the urban fabric.

Both towers provide significant parking capacity, with Ten Peachtree Place offering 485 spaces and the One Atlantic Center offering 2200.

These two towers illustrate the many possible ways to combine structure and enclosure in skyscraper design.