page_title: Bank of America Plaza (Dallas)
section_title: Lighting
hierarchical_section_title: Bank of America Plaza (Dallas) / Design / Lighting
caption_attribution_description: Bank of America Plaza, Dallas, Texas; at night
context_page_description: Bank of America Plaza is a 72-story, 280.7 m late-modernist skyscraper located in the Main Street District in the city's downtown core in Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the tallest skyscraper in the city, the 3rd tallest in Texas and the 40th tallest in the United States. It contains 1,900,000 sq ft of office space. The building was designed by JPJ Architects and developed by Bramalea Limited of Brampton, Canada. The original owner was a joint venture arrangement including Prudential Insurance, Bramalea Limited, and First National Bank of Dallas under parent company InterFirst Corporation. Construction commenced in 1983 and the tower was completed in 1985.
context_section_description: The building's facetted facade was first accented at night by nearly 2 miles (3 km) of green argon lighting running primarily at the edges and corners of the tower. Due to the green lighting, the building is often referred to as "The Pickle." Green was chosen over red or blue because it is more visible from a distance.  It has also been reported that the second tower, if built would have been accented with purple lighting.
  Several months later, many of the argon tubes had burnt out due to a combination of several high voltage phenomena—one of which is referred to as the "corona effect" that discharges high voltage at the ends of the tube connections burning them out. After an intensive study, the developer shut down the entire lighting system and replaced it with a "mid-point grounded" system and larger, 18 mm tubes.  Cold temperatures continued to plague the replacement system's performance.
  In a renovation project that began in May 2013, the original green argon lighting was replaced with multi-colored LED tubes. The renovations were 90 percent complete by November 14, 2013, when the LED outline was showcased at the re-lighting ceremony. This was made possible by Innovative Lighting in Irving, and Turner Construction.
caption: Lighting at night.
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