Destined to impress visitors for at least a couple of decades, Atlanta’s most expensive new building—the $1.5 billion Mercedes-Benz Stadium, backed by some $200 million in taxpayer funds—broke ground in 2014 and opened to much fanfare three years later.

Designed by HOK, the 30-story, origami-like structure is crowned by an eight-panel retractable roof, with a distinctive exterior and awe-inspiring interior halo board. In a downtown full of architectural statements, this one’s among the biggest.

Standing 25 stories with thoughtful design by New York-based architecture firm ODA, Lilli Midtown marked South Midtown’s first new high-rise in ages in 2018 while raising the bar for multifamily-development aesthetics and site adaptiveness.

The JPX Works project—clad in metal panels with a Jenga-like arrangement of balconies and windows—replaced an abandoned building and added 147 rentals along Peachtree Street without a single new parking space.

Among the latest additions to the tourist district around Pemberton Place, the Freelon Group and HOK-designed building at the northern edge of Centennial Olympic Park could be Atlanta’s most culturally significant architectural addition of the 2010s.

Opened in the summer of 2014, following years of recession-era delays, the 42,000-square-foot facility maximizes an elevation change on land donated by the Coca-Cola company. Its curved exterior embraces visitors while embodying the ideas of the museum—a place where disparate groups can connect.

The project’s design spearhead, the late Phil Freelon, would go on to lead designs for the Smithsonian Institution’s lauded National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Four years in the making, Georgia Tech’s recently unveiled Kendeda Building has expectations of being certified soon as the Southeast’s greenest structure—and one of just 24 “Living Buildings” in the country.

The $30 million experiment is part of the Living Building Challenge, an international green-building program. It offers a 170-seat auditorium, classrooms designed to accommodate between 16 and 70 people, labs, offices, student commons, and a rooftop garden and apiary—none of it connected to city sewers or power utilities.

Atlanta’s Lord Aeck Sargent architecture firm and Seattle’s Miller Hull Partnership led designs, with construction by Skanska.

This intown home of many complex angles—but nary a front door—got Atlantans talking about residential architecture like few others this past decade.

Called Haus Gables, the experimental project by (and former personal home of) architect Jennifer Bonner, director of the MALL firm, expanded design possibilities for so many tight lots around the city—while befuddling more than a few neighbors.

Spanning 2,200 square feet, the Haus exhibits a rare example of cross-laminated timber (CLT) technology, built by essentially piecing together large slats of glued wood, like a gingerbread house. Earlier this year, it listed for north of $1.1 million, but more recently had gone the Airbnb route at around $270 per night.

While it might be less than monumental in stature, global tech company NCR’s two-pronged new Midtown headquarters is a prime example of how former intown parking lots can be activated in thoughtful ways.

The glassy Duda|Paine-designed buildings, laid out as “neighborhoods” with different functionalities in separate sections, are expected to eventually house 5,000 employees.

Almost three years since SunTrust Park’s first official Opening Day, even naysayers formerly wed to the Atlanta Braves’s Summerhill location might have to concede the more intimate, state-of-the-art ballpark is a hit.

Surrounded by a wealth of entertainment, dining, and living options, the stadium is marketed as having some of the best sight-lines and most robust WiFi in professional sports—and now a baseball team that isn’t too shabby, either.