One Atlantic Center
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One Atlantic Center is a conceptual repositioning and public space design proposal for one of Atlanta’s most iconic skyscrapers. Developed as part of a design competition, the project reimagines the building’s lobby, exterior arrival sequence, and public landscape through a series of architectural interventions that strengthen connectivity, activate underutilized spaces, and reveal previously hidden relationships between the tower and its site.
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The challenge of the proposal is introducing new public-facing experiences within one of Atlanta’s most recognizable skyscrapers without compromising the architectural identity of the original tower. The design explores how landscape, circulation, and hospitality-driven programming can reshape the relationship between the building, the street, and the public realm.
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Location
Atlanta, GeorgiaProject Type
Commercial / Public Space / Conceptual RepositioningStatus
Design Competition ProposalPersonnel
Chris Loyal
Allen Post
The proposal introduces a new drive lane and covered porte cochere that reorients the building’s arrival experience around the existing greenspace and acknowledges the tower’s subterranean footprint. A series of light wells and skylights transform the basement level into an extension of the public landscape, bringing daylight into lower-level spaces while visually connecting the park and building below. Within the underutilized southern lobby, the design proposes a restaurant and lounge integrated carefully within the building’s iconic archways through recessed seating areas and a peninsula bar that reinforces the rhythm and scale of the existing architecture.
Through landscape, light, and circulation, the proposal transforms overlooked spaces within One Atlantic Center into a more dynamic civic experience.
