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By ATLien

October 18, 2007 7:31 AM | Link to this

Most obviously, “The Pencil” = The Bank of America building (600 Peachtree Street).

By Name

October 18, 2007 7:42 AM | Link to this

I think 1180 Peachtree looks like a giant pair of tweezers.

By Together for 12

October 18, 2007 7:43 AM | Link to this

The IBM tower was always called “The Gothic Rocket” when I was in college. Then you had the Westin - “The Hypodermic”, the Bank of America was “The Cigarette” (check it out at night, especially). There’s another one they built with a totally copper roof that was “The Copper Top building”. I figured Duracell owned it, but I think it’s a condo highrise. :)

By Amy

October 18, 2007 7:56 AM | Link to this

The Blue McDonalds - or King & Queen Towers on 285 upper end

By john

October 18, 2007 7:56 AM | Link to this

I think the “King and Queen Towers” at Perimeter are aptly named. This month, at night “the Queen’s” crown is pink for breast cancer awareness.

By chris

October 18, 2007 8:33 AM | Link to this

I don’t know the address, but that building on the buckhead loop looks like a fountain pen

By Hey

October 18, 2007 8:43 AM | Link to this

The Georgia-Pacific Building is “The Stairstep Building”.

By Atlanta Pearl Girl

October 18, 2007 8:47 AM | Link to this

I call the one with the flaps the ‘batman’ building.

The one lit up (what is it…the IBM tower?) I call it the birdcage.

There’s another one over by Cumberland Mall that has a very asian feel…. we call that one Mr. Won Ton’s place.

Atlanta Pearl Girl

By Buzz

October 18, 2007 9:00 AM | Link to this

Alexander Memeorial Colisium on the Ga. Tech campus… The “T**”…

By whochimama

October 18, 2007 9:01 AM | Link to this

The Pinnacle building in Buckhead across the street from Phipps Plaza is the “Trash Can Building” according to our daughter. She announced this moniker one day in front her friend’s father. Come to find out that was the guy who designed the building. Oops!

By Joeventures

October 18, 2007 9:32 AM | Link to this

The group of white marble government buildings downtown: AMIB, or The Agglomeration of Modernist Institutional Bureaucracies.

Peachtree Center: Hamster City.

The Bank of America building deserves a very derogatory name, which I won’t spell out here. Let’s just say she’s pretty, but doesn’t have it where it counts.

Meanwhile, the Fox Theater could be known as the Moor Garish building.

By Mrs. Warren

October 18, 2007 9:34 AM | Link to this

Who the @#$% refers to Dunwoody/Sandy Springs as 285 upper end. You must be new.

By Andre

October 18, 2007 9:38 AM | Link to this

Lol, I agree Name. 1100 Peachtree does look like two big giant tweezers….

By Yosemitie Sam

October 18, 2007 9:42 AM | Link to this

There’s of course One Atlantic Center, which really doesn’t have a nickname.

It’s the dwarfish tower next to it on West Peachtree — Atlantic Center Plaza — that’s extremely similar in architecture. I think they call it “Mini Me.”

Bwahahahahaha…

By Singinchicken

October 18, 2007 9:42 AM | Link to this

I’m sure I’m dating myself with this one, but the Hyatt Regency was always referred to as the “Blue Bubble” back when you used to be able to see it!

By Don L.

October 18, 2007 9:45 AM | Link to this

Come on Guys……….Lets get real. The only famous name I have heard since the 70’s is for the Westin Peachtree Plaza is “Portmans Penis” Now, yes I said it…..How many of you have the b…’s to agree? Have a lovely day Atlanta and hope for rain. By the wayt, Thanks Mayor Franklin for the gracious words you spoke on CNN yesterday. I must agree that what you said, in such a grand way are true! Thanks again Mayor.

By dork

October 18, 2007 9:46 AM | Link to this

the georgia tech campanile outside of the student center:

the SHAFT!

By Amanda

October 18, 2007 9:54 AM | Link to this

I’ve always referred to the Bank of America building as the “stick building” because the top looks like someone just threw a bunch of sticks up there. I also refer to 1180 Peachtree as the “Batman building,” especially at night when it is lit up against a dark sky. And although it’s not a building, the 17th Street bridge is the “banana bridge” for obvious reasons.

By Maggie

October 18, 2007 10:09 AM | Link to this

Thank you for explaining the Queen’s red/pink light…I have had a lot of Shakespearean plots going on in my head about that.

There is the Lego Building..”My Building” is my name for One Atlanta Center (my dad “gave it to me” when I loved it at 5.

“Buckhead” for the neon green lit building that marks my arrival in Buckhead.

By Singinchicken

October 18, 2007 10:12 AM | Link to this

Oh yeah…the big Wildwood building at Powers Ferry and Windy Hill has always been affectionately known as the Death Star!

By Maggie

October 18, 2007 10:12 AM | Link to this

Oh

and Peachtree Corners Presbyterian Church = Church of the Exploding Dove.

To understand, check out their sign.

By Yosemitie Sam

October 18, 2007 10:22 AM | Link to this

You gotta know your history on this one.

Back in the day, before being known now as the Crystal Springs building, the tower at 3660 New Northside Drive was affectionately known as “the Gorilla Building.”

This was before my time, but apparently at some point in the ’80s, the landlord — in an attempt to attract tenants — placed one of those giant inflatable gorillas on the roof of the building. Well, the rest is history — and the nickname stuck.

By US expat in the UK

October 18, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this

oh what a fun discussion…I so do miss the Atlanta skyline, but NOT the traffic.

The building in Buckhead with the green lights running down the sides at night…. The Slime Building!!

Can you tell we are children of the 80s? Anything green running vertically reminds us of Double Dare slime!!

By Lisa T

October 18, 2007 10:27 AM | Link to this

Funny - I thought the WSB-TV building at the corner of Peachtree & West Peachtree was the Death Star. At least that’s what the competition called it…

By Lisa T

October 18, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this

I remember the Gorilla building! And just behind it, on the crest of the hill up Riveredge Parkway at the New Northside Drive exit, we called the green building that used to house a bank hq the “Emerald City.”

By Rhonda

October 18, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this

When I was at Georgia-Pacific in the 90s we used to call the G-P Center “the Pink Palace.”

By amber

October 18, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this

I think the top of the Bank of America building at night looks like a big Hershey’s kiss. ;)

By WTGuard

October 18, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this

Kroger on Piedmont across from Tower Place, a.k.a.,”the Disco Kroger” because of the former Limelight next door. Another fun fact, that very same parking lot is where the infamous WQXI “Flying Turkey” drop occurred, made famous later on an episode of “WKRP in Cincinnati”.

By Temp

October 18, 2007 11:10 AM | Link to this

The building at the corner of Peachtree and Lenox where Bluepointe is, we call it The Comb Over because of the overhang on the top of it.

By Mark

October 18, 2007 11:48 AM | Link to this

Georgia Dome/Phillips Arena/Turner Field….you pick.

“House of Shame”

By heather

October 18, 2007 12:25 PM | Link to this

The “Green Slime” building in Buckhead.

By Jim

October 18, 2007 12:29 PM | Link to this

Bobby Dodd Stadium = Loserville

By Lib

October 18, 2007 1:04 PM | Link to this

I work across from the King & Spalding building in midtown. We call it “The Flock of Seagulls Building” because it looks like the hairdo on the lead singer of that 80s band.

By Alexis

October 18, 2007 1:27 PM | Link to this

The building on Buckhead Loop that looks like a giant pencil is the Buckhead Grand, and those of us who live there call it “General” for the General Pencil Company that makes all those No. 2 pencils.

By Dawg

October 18, 2007 1:34 PM | Link to this

I call the Bank of America building “the north star” b/c if you ever get lost, you can drive towards the light at the top, which takes you to Peachtree/W Peachtree/North Ave, and you can find your way. Also, Centennial Tower is the “Envelope building” b/c of the inverted triange at the top. IBM tower is the “Klingon Building” to me. 1180 Peachtree is the “spaceship,” and some claim it is my spaceship

By Disgusted

October 18, 2007 2:14 PM | Link to this

Guess I need to get my eyes checked. I see the Queen building’s crown at 6:15 every morning as I come down GA 400, and I thought it was orange in honor of Halloween.

By Curious

October 18, 2007 2:21 PM | Link to this

I once worked in that big Wildwood building. We all called it the Battleship.

By Voldemort

October 18, 2007 2:30 PM | Link to this

Sun Trust Plaza = the light-house

Tower Place = Viva Las Vegas

and I always refer to the BOA tower as the “The Big Bread Basket” . Appropriate, no?

By Mike

October 18, 2007 4:21 PM | Link to this

The Southern Company building is apply nicknamed the “Tower of Power”.

By Honey

October 18, 2007 4:22 PM | Link to this

These comments are hilarious, and when you get a visual of the building they really do remind me of what you all are saying, lol.

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By DJ

October 18, 2007 4:27 PM | Link to this

I live downtown and frequently drive past the state capital, which I generally refer to as “the insane asylum” or “the loony bin”.

By Matt

October 18, 2007 4:39 PM | Link to this

From my view inside of “General” Buckhead Grand, the Queen’s crown definitely looks orange and I too thought it was supposed to be for Halloween.

Most everyone I know calls Buckhead Grand the rocket ship.

By Matt

October 18, 2007 4:51 PM | Link to this

As a kid, I always thought the Hyatt Regency was a UFO.

By JP

October 18, 2007 5:10 PM | Link to this

The Georgia Power building = The Leaning Tower of Power

By Stephanie

October 18, 2007 5:21 PM | Link to this

I call 1180 Peachtree the Batman building.

By thatdude

October 18, 2007 5:22 PM | Link to this

Ive herd the dekalb county jail called the Thunda dome. hahahahaha!

By thatdude

October 18, 2007 5:23 PM | Link to this

The dekalb county jail called the Thunda dome. hahahahaha!

By Inmate

October 18, 2007 6:26 PM | Link to this

I live in the Fulton County Jail. I call it “The Slammer” or “The Anal Devirginizing Palace”

By Patient

October 18, 2007 6:29 PM | Link to this

I believe Grady Memorial Hospital is officially changing its name to “Corrupt Third World Filthy Money-Hemorrhaging Warehouse Soon to be Closed”

By Patient

October 18, 2007 6:33 PM | Link to this

I think Grady is officially changing its building name to “Corrupt Money-Hemorrhaging Third-World Filth Factory Soon-To-Be-Closed”

By Bill

October 18, 2007 10:01 PM | Link to this

I’m sure other company’s employees have names for their HQ building … Coke is “The Pop Shop” or “Syrup City” and UPS is “The Parcel Palace.”

By Coho

October 18, 2007 10:29 PM | Link to this

The King and Queen buildings are also called the “spider buildings” by some kids I know.

Albeit, not a building, but the Olympic Fountains in Centennial Park were known as the “Bum Bidet” to some during the Olympics.

And we can’t forget the “Building of Death” (aka the home of WSB Radio!).

By QTee

October 19, 2007 1:20 AM | Link to this

I dont know the real name of this building…but you can see it just off 85 @ North Druid Hills. It is tall and kind of green. Every one in my family has always called it “The Pickle Keeper” cause it looks just like the Tupperware Pickle keeper.

(Google it people!)

By T.

October 19, 2007 5:40 AM | Link to this

The “GAY FAIR” in Midtown.