10 important architectural sites in Super Bowl 2019 host city Atlanta
Atlanta is gearing up to host the 53rd Super Bowl this weekend, so we've put together a guide to the Southern US city's most interesting buildings in case American football isn't your thing.
High Museum of Art by Richard Meier, 1983, expanded by Renzo Piano, 2005
Known to locals as The High, this minimalist museum found its home in Meier's 135,000-square-foot (12,500-square-metre), white-concrete edifice the year before the New York architect won the 1984 Pritzker Prize.
It was later expanded by fellow Pritzker laureate Piano to add more exhibition space. The museum now houses an impressive collection, and hosts a rotating series exhibitions and installations by international designers, who have recently included Daniel Arsham, Jaime Hayón and Yuri Suzuki.
Hyatt Regency by John Portman, 1967
A soaring atrium ? which allegedly provided a model for Star Wars' Death Star ? sits at the heart of this 22-storey hotel, one of the first of its kind completed by late American architect John Portman.
Created as part of his major downtown redevelopment called the Peachtree Center, the Hyatt Regency's central space is surrounded by balconies and features futuristic elevators, all illuminated by a translucent skylight.
Photograph by Darren Bradley.
Atlanta-Fulton Central Public Library by Marcel Breuer, 1980
Breuer's monolithic Central Library bears similarities to his famous Manhattan museum, with large expanses of flat external surfaces, punctured sparingly by small inset openi...
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