Capitol Center, an office skyscraper in Columbia, South Carolina, climbs 349 feet above you. At 106.4 m (349 ft), this tower holds the title of the tallest building in South Carolina. A 26‑story skyscraper when it rose into the skyline, it stood as the state’s tallest structure from its completion in December 1987 until the Prysmian Copper Wire Tower in Abbeville was finished in 2009.
Inside, about 1,000 people work every week across roughly 400 offices, spread through 460,020 sq ft (42,737 m2) of office space. Pause to imagine the plot beneath your feet: the Wade Hampton Hotel once stood here until it was imploded in July 1985 to make way for this modern tower. Look at its skin — double‑paned tinted glass set in horizontal bands of anodized aluminum color panels, the clean, modern face you see today.
The building was completed in 1987 during Columbia’s high‑rise building boom and opened as the AT&T Building; naming rights have since passed through Affinity and SouthTrust Bank, and the current signage is held by Truist Bank. During construction in 1986, the unfinished tower, partially financed by the State of South Carolina, was used by gubernatorial candidate Carroll Campbell as a symbol of excessive government spending. Notice the double-paned tinted glass and anodized aluminum bands wrapping the tower beneath the Truist sign.