page_title: Albuquerque Plaza
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Albuquerque Plaza / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: This complex includes the two largest buildings in town, the Hyatt and the Bank of Albuquerque tower. You can see them in the background of many of the other pictures. And yes, those are bronze statues of ordinary people standing on a street corner in front of the entrance.
context_page_description: Albuquerque Plaza, also known as U.S. Eagle Plaza, is a 107 m high-rise on the south side of Civic Plaza 201 Third Street NW, in Downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is the taller of a two tower complex that contains class-A office space connected at ground level by a two-story promenade containing retail space connecting to the shorter Hyatt Regency Albuquerque hotel tower. At 22 stories it is the tallest building in New Mexico. The hotel tower, with 20
  stories, is the state's second tallest building at 78.03 m. Their similar height, color, and pyramidal roofs make them the focal point of the Albuquerque skyline.
  Albuquerque Plaza complex was designed by Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum and built in 1990.
context_section_description: Albuquerque Plaza is 351 feet (107 m) tall and has 22 stories, making it New Mexico's tallest building by both height and floor count. The tower, roughly square in plan with angular projections, is situated at the southeast corner of the block and contains 357,000 square feet (33,200 m²) of class-A office space. It rises 20 stories above a two-story base which is shared with the Hyatt Regency hotel. The first floor contains a retail promenade, while the second floor houses banquet and conference rooms. The complex was designed by HOK Architects and is an example of postmodern architecture. It is constructed from reinforced concrete with pink granite trim, and both towers are capped with distinctive pyramidal roofs which contain mechanical equipment.
  At the building's main entrance is a bronze sculpture by Glenna Goodacre called "Sidewalk Society" which depicts nine life-sized people engaged in various activities on the street corner. The sculpture was commissioned by the building's developer and unveiled in 1991. The racial politics of the piece have attracted some criticism, especially a scene apparently depicting a Hispanic man with a hard hat being given instructions by a white supervisor, but the overall reception of the work was mostly positive.
caption: The building entrance and the "Sidewalk Society" sculpture
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