Peachtree at Piedmont - Zen View

Attention Atlantans: Do you recognize this window? Who were the architects?

I drove Buckhead in the drizzle this morning, heading south on Peachtree. Waiting to turn left on Piedmont, I could just make out Peachtree Road Methodist Church 1/4 mile away. It was a beautiful zen view among the muck. I floor-boarded the zoom, resting the camera on the steering wheel, happy for the red light.


Buckhead is Atlanta's premiere edge city but it's a very close-in edge. Most everything is there: living, eating, working, shopping, entertaining; luxury and sleaze. New skyscrapers, old businesses, even "Disco Kroger" is still there. The housing boom left it overbuilt but likely to succeed.

I like Buckhead. It's not very pretty as a whole but it's jammed full of great parts. A good bit of it is unplanned and raucous and just right. Even the Buckhead churches do well.


So a glimpse through the windshield wipers and fog made me happy that I was stopped at the one of Atlanta's worst intersections. Imagine the light in the sanctuary beneath this tower.


I doing posts about the 2010 Philip Trammell Shutze Awards. Yesterday's post hinted at another Shutze buiding with a similar windowed tower.

Here is a better hint. Imagine the light in the domed hallway below this tower.


Let me know if you are attending the Shutze Awards.

Thanks,
Terry