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Location:
390
North Orange Avenue
In
the 1990's in America much of the architecture in
the southern half of the country started to look the
same: beige buildings topped with green roofs. In
condominiums and other low-profile buildings the look
combined the easy-to-maintain colors of the southwest
with a tribute to architectural elegance: the copper
roofs of Europe stained green by time and weather.
The combination suggested elegance to the consumer,
was pleasing to the eye, and was also very cheap to
produce. Bank of America at duPont Centre is a condo
that grew up into a skyscraper. It has short green
roofs at steep angles that cover its three setbacks.
The only indication that this is a modern skyscraper
is the fact that the setbacks are all on the same
side of the building and positioned so that it looks
like a giant right triangle. To be fair to the architects,
this is exactly what their client asked for -- a 28-story
building that was both classical and contemporary
looking which would fit in with the Florida lifestyle.