Wachovia Center (Winston-Salem)

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The Wachovia Center.
The Wachovia Center.

The Wachovia Center is an office skyscraper in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. It is the tallest building in the Piedmont Triad region and the tallest in the Carolinas outside Charlotte. The building served as the corporate headquarters of the Wachovia Corporation from 1995, the year of the tower's construction, to 2001, the year the corporation merged with First Union and moved its headquarters to Charlotte. Wachovia sold the building to American Financial Real Estate Trust after the merger, but the financial company still leases space in it. Prior to the tower's construction, the then tallest building in the city, the Wachovia Building (now Winston Tower), housed Wachovia's corporate headquarters.

The building was designed by world-renown architect César Pelli and features Moravian architectural themes, for which Winston-Salem is famous; notable aspects include the Moravian arch, which was used in the dome's design, and the Moravian star, which was used on the lobby's mosaics. It is sheathed in Olympia white granite and is the only granite domed skyscraper in the world. The Wachovia Center is 460 feet (140 m) in height and has 34 floors.

Locals have many nicknames for the structure like "giant stick of Ban roll-on deodorant"; many are sexual references (such as Phallus Palace) due to the building's elongated shape. The architect, César Pelli, remarked that the building resembled an emerging rosebud.[1] [2]


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