Bank of America Plaza, Commercial skyscraper in downtown Dallas, US
Bank of America Plaza is a 72-story, 921-foot (280.7 m) late-modernist skyscraper in Dallas's Main Street District. Its dark blue glass facade is divided by thin mullions into a dense grid of rectangular panes, with a stepped vertical recess down the center where the glass forms a continuous zigzag pattern. The tower narrows slightly toward a flat roofline.
The building was completed in 1985 as Dallas Main Center and changed names through banking industry consolidations. It became Bank of America Plaza in 1998 following sector mergers.
The tower's names trace Dallas banking mergers: InterFirst Bank Plaza on opening in 1985, First Republic Bank Plaza in 1986, NCNB Plaza, NationsBank Plaza in 1991, and Bank of America Plaza in 1998. Its green argon outline earned it the nickname "The Pickle"; multi-colored LED tubes replaced it in 2013.
The building sits downtown and connects to the city's pedestrian network for easy walking access. Public transit through regional bus lines is directly accessible from the site.
The top two floors serve as a broadcast center: ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX and The CW transmit from the 72nd floor and the 74th-level roof, with antennas hidden inside a glass parapet. The tower was one of the first in the US to receive the Energy Star rating for energy efficiency.
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