GLG Grand
33°47′10″N 84°23′07″W / 33.78611°N 84.38528°W
GLG Grand | |
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![]() GLG Grand in 2006 | |
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General information | |
Status | Completed |
Type | Mixed-use |
Address | 75 14th Street NE[1] |
Opening | 1992 |
Height | |
Roof | 609 ft (186 m) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 53 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Rabun Rasche Rector & Reece, Architects |
Main contractor | Beers Skanska, Inc. |
The GLG Grand building is a 186-meter (609-foot) tall skyscraper in Midtown Atlanta. The Art Deco-inspired, pyramid-capped tower is 53 stories tall and was finished in 1992. The bottom third of it is the Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta, which includes 244 guest rooms and is the only 5-star hotel in Midtown. It is the eleventh-tallest skyscraper in Atlanta.[2] The building was designed by Rabun Hogan Ota Rasche Architects, and built by Beers Construction of Atlanta.
The GLG Grand building is notable for several reasons. First, it was Atlanta's first mixed-use skyscraper, incorporating hotel, office and condominiums into one building. Several skyscrapers of the same type are on the drawing boards, but they have yet to break ground. Second, it was a dismal failure for its developer, G. Lars Gullstedt (1935-2015) of Sweden, who made headlines in Atlanta in 1991 by buying up huge parcels of run-down land in Midtown and proposing a massive multi-block
The hotel in the building was originally called the GLG Grand Hotel, then the Occidental Grand Hotel, before becoming the Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta in the late 1990s.
Education
The building is zoned to Atlanta Public Schools
- Henry W. Grady High School
- Inman Middle School
- Morningside Elementary School
See also
References
Notes
- ^ "GLG Grand-Four Seasons". Skyscraper Center. CTBUH. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
- ^ "Atlanta's tallest buildings - Top 20" on Emporis
External links
Media related to GLG Grand at Wikimedia Commons
- Four Seasons Atlanta