Georgia Is Regilding the Gold Dome and Building an Eight-Story Office Block Beside It

Two jobs are running on Capitol Hill in Atlanta at once, and one $392 million appropriation is paying for both.

Project Scope

The first is a restoration of the 1889 Capitol itself: structural repairs, life-safety and fire-protection upgrades, wholesale HVAC replacement, refurbishment of the House and Senate chambers, recovery of historic interior fabric that earlier remodels covered over, and a new thin layer of native Georgia gold on the dome. Roughly $83 million of the total goes to that work. The rest funds the second job, an eight-story legislative office building of about 260,000 square feet with committee rooms, member offices and a visiting-group reception area, plus a 500-space parking deck and a skybridge tying the new building into the Capitol’s third floor. Two partly vacant state-owned buildings at the Martin Luther King Jr. Drive corner came down to make room. Lord Aeck Sargent is the architect, with Uzun+Case on structure, for the Georgia Building Authority. The office building topped out in June 2026.

Why It Matters

Work on the Capitol pauses every January. The General Assembly convenes, the building goes back to being a working legislature, and the trades come off it until the session ends. That constraint shapes everything about the schedule, and it’s why the restoration is phased across years while the new construction next door runs continuously. Anyone bidding statehouse work should read the sequencing as the primary risk rather than the gold leaf. The dome is the photograph. The January stop is the money.

Project Team & Details