The history of skyscrapers in Atlanta began with the completion in of the eight-story
Equitable Building in 1892. Early high-rises include the
Flatiron Building, completed in 1897, five years before
New York City's
building of the same name; the
Candler Building; and the
romanesque Rhodes–Haverty Building. However, Atlanta's skyline remained under 300 ft (91 m) until the 1960s, with the topping out of
One Park Tower. The following two decades would see the construction of increasingly tall office skyscrapers, despite the city losing over 100,000 residents during this time. Atlanta's building boom accelerated in the 1980s, culminating in the completion of the city's three of the city's four tallest buildings in 1992. These were
Truist Plaza, Atlanta's second-tallest building;
191 Peachtree Tower, Atlanta's fourth-tallest; and Bank of America Plaza. Initially, skyscraper development in Atlanta occurred largely in Downtown. Midtown Atlanta received its first major high-rise development,
Colony Square, in 1973, and would see further development in the 1980s.
One Atlantic Center, the city's third-tallest building, was completed in 1987. Skyscraper construction slowed considerably in the mid-1990s, but resumed in the 2000s, as the city's population and economy rebounded. High-rise development shifted increasingly towards Midtown, which was undergoing a transformation into a high-density residential area; the
Atlantic Station project resulted in a new mixed-use high-rise neighborhood in the northwest of Midtown, across the I-85. The decade also saw significant development in central Buckhead, including the addition of its tallest building,
3344 Peachtree, in 2008. While the
Great Recession paused construction again in the early 2010s, Midtown remained a target for high-rise development. Large number of parking lots have been replaced by residential towers. In 2023, construction began on
1072 West Peachtree Street, planned to reach a height of 749 ft (228.3 m); when completed in 2026, it will be Atlanta's tallest new building in over 30 years. In Downtown, the
Centennial Yards development broke ground in 2024; the project, which includes multiple towers, aims to transform the site of a former railyard into a new mixed-use district. Several of the downtown buildings were damaged in a
major tornado in March 2008, scattering
glass from several hundred feet. It took workers several days to clean the buildings and remove all of the loose shards of glass from the skyscrapers. No structural damage was reported, and by late 2010 each skyscraper had all of its
windows replaced.
Window blinds and other office objects from the tall buildings were found as far away as
Oakland Cemetery. == Cityscape ==