| Skyline of Atlanta | |
|---|---|
 Midtown and Downtown Atlanta 2025 | |
| Tallest building | Bank of America Plaza (1992) |
| Tallest building height | 1,023 ft (311.8 m) |
| Major clusters | Downtown Atlanta Midtown Atlanta Buckhead |
| First 150 m+ building | State of Georgia Building (1967) |
| Number of tall buildings (2026) | |
| Taller than 100 m (328 ft) | 98 |
| Taller than 150 m (492 ft) | 18 |
| Taller than 200 m (656 ft) | 11 |
| Taller than 300 m (984 ft) | 1 |
| Number of tall buildings — feet | |
| Taller than 300 ft (91.4 m) | 125 |
Atlanta is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Georgia, with a metropolitan area of 6.4 million. As of 2026, Atlanta is home to 125 high-rise buildings over 300 feet (91 m) tall, and has the fifth most in the United States after New York City, Chicago, Miami, and Houston. 18 of these buildings are skyscrapers taller than 492 ft (150 m). Atlanta's skyline is the second largest in the Southern United States, after Miami. The tallest building in the city is the Bank of America Plaza between Downtown and Midtown Atlanta, the city's only supertall skyscraper. [1] It was completed in 1992 at a height of 1,023 ft (312 m). Of the 20 tallest buildings in Georgia, 18 are located in Atlanta; [2] the other two, Concourse Corporate Center V & VI, are in the neighboring city of Sandy Springs.
Contents
- History
- Cityscape
- Map of tallest buildings
- Downtown and Midtown Atlanta
- Buckhead
- Tallest buildings
- Tallest buildings in Metro Atlanta
- Tallest under construction
- Timeline of tallest buildings
- Skylines
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- External links
Early high-rises in Atlanta 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 short until the 1960s, with the topping out of One Park Tower. Atlanta's building boom accelerated in the 1980s, culminating in the completion of three of the city's four tallest buildings in 1992. Initially, skyscraper development in Atlanta occurred largely in Downtown. Midtown Atlanta would see increased development from the 1980s onwards.
In the early 21st century, high-rise development has continued to shift towards Midtown. The Atlantic Station project resulted in a new mixed-use high-rise neighborhood in the northwest of Midtown. This period also saw significant development in central Buckhead, including the addition of its tallest building, 3344 Peachtree, in 2008. Following a period of little high-rise construction after the Great Recession, Atlanta underwent another building boom beginning in the mid-2010s. Development mainly occurred in Midtown, where many residential towers have been built upon surface parking lots. [3] [4] Between 2000 and 2023, Atlanta more than doubled its number of buildings taller than 300 ft (91 m) from 55 to 115.
Unlike many American cities where the tallest buildings are concentrated in a single area, Atlanta's skyscrapers are primarily found in three neighborhoods: Downtown Atlanta, Midtown Atlanta, and Buckhead. They form a skyline that mainly runs northwards from Downtown Atlanta to Buckhead, centered around Peachtree Street, a major thoroughfare. In Midtown, the skyline is bounded to the west by Interstate-85. Between Midtown and central Buckhead, shorter high-rises line both sides of Peachtree Street. Since the 2010s, new developments have formed small clusters of high-rises in West Midtown and Old Fourth Ward. In Metro Atlanta, the cities of Dunwoody, Sandy Springs, and Brookhaven form the northern business district of Perimeter Center, which contains a substantial number of office towers. To a lesser extent, commercial high-rises can also be found in Cumberland and Vinings; high-rises are rare in the rest of the metropolitan area, which mostly consists of single-family homes.
