Beige concrete office towers and atrium hotels rise from a raised podium, linked across the streets by enclosed skybridges.
What Peachtree Center looks like
Beige concrete towers rise from a raised podium that runs for several blocks between Peachtree Street and Peachtree Center Avenue. Enclosed skybridges run several storeys up, taking pedestrians from one building to the next. They cross directly over the street below, with the same ribbed concrete pattern repeating across every tower in the complex.
The 's twenty two storey atrium dates from 1967, its blue dome holding the Polaris rotating restaurant above the roofline. The is a seventy three storey cylinder of glass that rises well above the rest of the complex. The dates from 1985 and holds a forty seven storey atrium behind its curved base. Glass elevator shafts run the full height of the open space.
sits at street level under the office towers, its entrance marked by a canopy and marquee sign facing Peachtree Street. 's atrium rises in tiered concrete balconies around a domed skylight, used for trade shows and conventions through the year. A MARTA station sits beneath the complex, with turnstiles opening directly onto the underground concourse.
Several blocks of the complex were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018, covering buildings from 1961 to 1988. In 2025 the towers went up for sale after the previous owner ran into financial trouble, though the buildings themselves remain standing and in use.
Shot in Peachtree Center
The Atlanta Marriott Marquis hotel's atrium appears in several productions, standing in for the Capitol in two Hunger Games films and for the Time Variance Authority headquarters in the Disney+ series Loki. The complex's older towers carry film history of their own, including a freefall stunt off one of the Hyatt Regency's towers and a chase through the Mall at Peachtree Center.
Sharky's Machine
The Hyatt Regency and the Westin Peachtree Plaza stand across the same block, and the production used one tower's height to double for the other.
Baby Driver, 2017
The Mall at Peachtree Center
Baby flees into the mall after a failed robbery at the post office, running through the food court before trying to disguise himself in one of the shops. The chase starts at this street level entrance beneath the office towers, where the skybridge system crosses overhead.
Sharky's Machine, 1981
The Hyatt Regency tower
Played the Westin Peachtree Plaza, 1981
A stuntman performed an unrestrained two hundred twenty foot freefall from the hotel's Radius Tower, one of the Hyatt Regency's three cylindrical towers around its atrium. The tower played the neighboring Westin Peachtree Plaza for the jump, two of Portman's own buildings standing in for each other across the same block.
What Peachtree Center can double for
Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, California
Embarcadero Center is a third Portman complex of concrete office towers rising from a raised plaza level, built out between 1971 and 1989 on a similar scale to Peachtree Center's own towers. Its Hyatt Regency shares the same atrium design Portman first tried here. A wide shot would show San Francisco's bay light and surrounding hills, so a tighter shot on the towers and the plaza level holds the match best. Try searching concrete office towers raised plaza now.
John Portman designed the Westin Bonaventure on Bunker Hill the same decade he finished Peachtree Center's hotels, and both sit on raised plazas above the surrounding streets. The Bonaventure's mirrored glass cylinders are a different material from Peachtree Center's beige concrete towers. Keep the mirrored glass towers out of a wide shot, since Peachtree Center has no equivalent silhouette. Try searching mirrored glass towers plaza now.
Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan
Renaissance Center is a fourth Portman project on the Detroit riverfront, built between 1973 and 1981. Its central tower is a round glass cylinder on a five storey concrete podium, reaching seventy three storeys, taller than anything at Peachtree Center. The office towers around it are rectangular rather than round. Frame away from the Detroit River and the round towers, since neither has a match at Peachtree Center. Try searching round glass concrete towers now.
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