Notable Buildings
Arts facilities have led the way for modernists in Atlanta architecture with the High Museum designed by Richard Meier with a 2005 addition by Renzo Piano. Also on the horizon is a new home for the Atlanta Symphony Center. Re-sited in 2008, the hall will not be designed by Santiago Calatrava as originally planned in 2005. A new architect will be selected and the hall will be built as soon as fundraising can be completed. A recent design competition resulted in Freelon Associates (in conjunction with HOK) being selected as the architect for the new $100 million dollar home of the Center for Civil and Human Rights. Michael Graves' post-modern style is exhibited in the Ten Peachtree Place office building in Midtown and the Michael C. Carlos Museum on the campus of Emory University. The 50 story One Atlantic Center was designed by Philip Johnson in association with John Burgee.
Atlanta also has its own Flatiron Building, built in 1897, five years before the more famous Flatiron Building in New York City (1902). The Atlanta-Fulton County Central Library, completed in 1980, was designed by Bauhaus member Marcel Breuer (though he didn't live to see its completion). Another historic building of architectural importance to Atlanta is the Fox Theatre, which was saved from the threat of demolition in 1974.
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