Presented by the Buidings Worth Saving
Committee of the Atlanta Preservation Center:

2001 List of Endangered Buildings:

Hightower Textile Engineering Building
Atlantic Drive/4th Street at Georgia Tech

After World War II, a number of buildings at Georgia Tech were designed by a team of in-school architects in the International Style, a style that broke with historical precedent and took advantage of modern building materials and technology. Paul Heffernan, director of the School of Architecture, only Atlanta winner of the prestigious Paris Prize and a partner in the firm of Bush-Brown, Gailey & Heffernan, designed the low-framed concrete Hightower Textile Engineering Building in 1949. Georgia Tech's campus plan calls for the redevelopment of the Student Center area and the removal of the Hightower Textile Building for green space and the Hinman Research Building, also designed by Heffernan in 1939.

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