The Reynolds Building and the Winston Tower, framed by the R. J. Reynolds Center on the left and One West Fourth Street on the right.
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Tag: Modernist Architecture
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Skyscrapers from Trade Street
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Liberty Plaza
A simple and straightforward cube that is number 9 on Wikipedia’s List of Tallest Buildings in Winston-Salem (where the picture may seem familiar). It was built in 1971–1973; the architects were Calloway, Johnson and Moore, the successors to Northup & O’Brien.1
- According to its page at the Skyscraper Center site. ↩︎
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First Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian is an empire with multiple buildings on a large campus downtown. The main sanctuary, above, was built in 1971. It has a commanding position and makes the most of it; old Pa Pitt had to stand in the middle of Third Street to get this picture of it. Although the church is in a striking modernist style, it harmonizes so well with the older Gothic Sunday school and fellowship hall behind it that it is hard to tell where the older leaves off and the newer begins.
At night a lighted cross hovers in the front window.
The main church and the buildings behind it are collectively described as Building A. Building B, in an uncompromisingly rectangular modernist style, was getting some renovation and probably expansion when Father Pitt visited.
Blum seemed to handle all the construction in downtown Winston, of which there was quite a lot when Father Pitt was walking around.
Building C, a postmodernist construction that tries to emulate the materials of Building A, includes the Worship Center, where the “modern” services are held on Sunday mornings.
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Winston Tower, Night and Day
Opened in 1966, the Winston Tower, originally Wachovia Building, was designed by Cameron Associates. Truliant bought naming rights a few years ago.
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