Concourse at Landmark Center
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development
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in metro Atlanta
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's Perimeter Center
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business district, in the city of Sandy Springs, Georgia
Sandy Springs, Georgia
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, United States
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. It is a planned community
Planned community
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with two 34-story
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office towers, several low-rise office buildings, a hotel
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, and a health club
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, all set in landscaped grounds around a man-made lake
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.
Set at the northeastern corner of the junction of two of Atlanta's busiest highway
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s (Interstate 285
Interstate 285
Interstate 285 is an Interstate Highway loop encircling Atlanta, Georgia, for . I-285 is also known as unsigned State Route 407 and is colloquially referred to as the Perimeter. Suburban sprawl has made it one of the most heavily traveled roadways in the United States, and portions of the highway...
and Georgia 400), the Concourse, with its blue glass
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towers, was a major addition to the Atlanta skyline for commuters traveling to and from the north side of suburban Atlanta. It houses several corporate
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headquarters
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, including those of Rayovac
Rayovac
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and Allconnect
Allconnect
Allconnect is a privately owned services comparison business based in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing mainly in price comparisons and connection facilitation of power and media services.. As of 2010, Allconnect employs 554 associates and has assisted millions of customers since 1998. An additional...
.
Completed in 1988 and 1991, the 34-story towers are officially Concourse Corporate Center V and VI, but are known locally as "the King and Queen towers" (respectively) because their white lattice crown
Crown (headgear)
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s resemble the heads of chess
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pieces. The squared-top "king" tower is on the immediate east side of 400, the round arc
Arc (geometry)
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s of the "queen" tower are in turn immediately east of it. At 173.7 metres (569.9 ft) and 168.6 metres (553.1 ft) to their spire
Spire
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tops, these are the two tallest suburb
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an buildings in the United States
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, and 14th and 17th in metro Atlanta
Metro Atlanta
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(including The Atlantic
The Atlantic (Atlanta)
The Atlantic is a mixed-use residential skyscraper in the Atlantic Station neighbourhood of Atlanta, Georgia. At tall, it is the thirteenth-tallest building in Atlanta...
, 13th when finished in 2009). Within Perimeter Center, they are followed by Three Ravinia Drive
Three Ravinia Drive
Three Ravinia Drive is a skyscraper located in the city of Dunwoody, in metropolitan Atlanta. Standing 444 feet tall , it is the tallest building in Dunwoody. Ravinia was developed by Gerald Hines Interests of Houston, Texas, in 1981. It stands 31 stories tall...
in Dunwoody, and Park Towers II and I in Sandy Springs (seen in the above picture at left), the only others to be true skyscraper
Skyscraper
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s over 100 metres (328.1 ft).
The development was designed by locally based Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates
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and was engineered by locally based Thompson Company, Inc.
During the month of October, the Queen tower was lit up in pink
Pink
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for Breast Cancer
Breast cancer
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Month, and during March 2009 the King and Queen Towers were lit up green.