Miami - NationsBank Tower

A landmark of downtown Miami, the 52-storey NationsBank Tower (1987), is brilliantly floodlit in many colours at night. It was designed by I. M. Pei, America's best known contemporary architect, in association with Spillis Candela and Partners. The floodlighting scheme, with several hundred 1000-watt lamps and different colours for different occasions (for example green on St Patrick's Day and red on St Valentine's Day) was devised by Douglas Leigh.