Bank of America Tower

All sites have a number of natural features that should be considered, determined, and analyzed in architectural design. The approach of integrating the surrounding of a structure in the design varies depending on the culture, religion, economy, and the professionals’ executing the analysis work. Accordingly, the essay aims at conducting a preliminary research on Bank of America Tower, its architects, and their approach to Contextualism as well as the neighborhood of the structure. To achieve this objective, the paper is based on a hypothesis that the design of the tower analyzed, adapted, and integrated natural and social-cultural factors in the locality into the context of the building.

The Bank of America Tower is an example of a cutting-edge green building technology that combines economic, social, and ecological principle with an objective of creating a sustainable structure. The building has an architectural height of 365.8 meters, 55 floors above ground, 3 floors below ground, and an occupied height of 769 feet ("The Skyscraper Center"). The building addresses its local environment factors, dense conditions of the city, and ensures that there is a close correlation between its form and function ("COOKFOX: Studio"). Some of the aspects of green building exploited by the tower