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Identification Name Bank of America Corporate Center Alternative name Bank of America Center, BOACC, Nationsbank Corporate Center, NCNB Corporate Center Emporis Building ID 121698
Location
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Map and Surrounding Area
Technical Data Height (tip) * Height (architectural) 265.48 m Floors (above ground) 60 Floors (underground) * Construction start * Construction end * Gross floor area * Floor-to-floor height * Elevators *
Structure in General Construction type skyscraper Current status  existing [completed] Structural material concrete Facade material granite Facade system curtain wall Architectural style postmodern Official website
Usages Main usages  commercial office Side usages  restaurant  tv studio trading center  shop(s)
Features and Amenities
One of the city's famous buildings Skybridge link to next building
Facts
Bank of America World Headquarters. |
Project originally announced on Wednesday, December 10, 1986, as a 50 floor building. |
Site preperation for the tower commenced on Friday, January 27, 1989. |
Construction commenced in August 1989 with the first foundations being placed. |
Foundation work was complete by February 1990. |
Officially became Charlotte's tallest building on March 20, 1991, at 11:00 a.m. when it reached a height of 589 feet at ith 47th floor to surpass One Wachovia Center by a single foot. |
55,000 people attended the opening celebrations on Saturday, October 24, 1992. |
As part of its opening ceremonies, rappellers from Fort Bragg`s 16th Military Police Brigade rappelled the length of the tower. |
Named Office Building of the Year by the Building Owners and Managers Association in 1996. |
On the morning of May 8, 2000 NationsBank and Bank of America merged as the Bank of America. The head office remained in Charlotte, closing the BA head office in San Francisco. |
It is the tallest building in both the Carolinas, and the tallest between  Philadelphia and Atlanta. |
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Some locals refer to this as the "Taj McColl" after Hugh L. McColl, Jr., the now retired CEO of Bank of America who constructed the tower during his tenure as CEO. |
The lobby of the BOA Center contains one of the largest secular frescoes in the
world. They are the work of artist Ben Long and took a year to complete. |
Attached to the tower is the North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, which contains three performance halls. |
Also attached to the tower is Founders Hall, which is a shopping and dining area accessed from College Street on the building's eastern side. |
The building's 60 floors stand as a tribute to the city's namesake, Queen Charlotte, who reined as Queen of England for 60 years. |
When lit at night the building's top resembles a multi-tiered tiara and is often referred to as being Charlotte's crown. |
Its crown contains 384 aluminum rods, that vary in length from 12 to 62 feet and each weighing between 800 and 4,500 pounds and utilizes 350 lights to illumniate it at night. |
The marble utilized in the lobby came from quarries in Spain, Italy, France, Turkey and the United States. |
Elevators taking persons from the ground floor to the 60th travel at a speed of 1,200 feet per minute. |
The evergreen tree utilized during the topping-out ceremony on Wednesday, October 2, 1991, was subsequently planted in the front yard of a Habitat for Humanity home in Charlotte's Belmont neighborhood. |
The 1,062-foot tower crane utilized during its construction, at the time, was the tallest external crane ever to be used on the North American continent. |
Companies involved in this building
Other companies:
Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects, Walter P. Moore & Associates, Inc., HKS, Inc., McKinsey & Company, Lincoln Property Company Commercial, Inc., Bank of America, Moore & Van Allen, Lincoln Harris, McGuire Woods, Cold Spring Granite, Inc., Street Construction Company, HighRise Systems, Inc., Cline Bettridge Berstein Lighting Design, Automatic Control Systems, W.B. Moore Company, Concrete Supply Co., Strickland Waterproofing Company, Inc., Otis Elevator Company, Wind Dynamics |
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