The Georgia Tech campus is located in Midtown, an area north of
downtown Atlanta. Although a number of huge buildings are visible from all points on campus — most notably the headquarters
of both BellSouth and The Coca-Cola Company as well as Atlanta's tallest building, the Bank of America building — the campus itself has few buildings over a few stories and has a
great deal of greenery. This gives it a distinctly suburban atmosphere quite different from other Atlanta campuses such as that
of Georgia State University or Emory.The campus is organized into four main parts: West Campus, East Campus, Central Campus, and Technology Square, the latter
being a newer section opened in 2003. West Campus and East Campus are both occupied primarily by student living complexes, while
Central Campus is reserved primarily for buildings used for teaching and research. Tech Square, located across the Downtown Connector and embedded in the city east of East Campus, is
home to the new official bookstore, a hotel, the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center, the offices of a number of
faculty and graduate students, and classrooms used for management and international affairs classes.While the majority of West Campus is occupied by apartments and single-sex undergraduate freshman dormitories, it has a number
of other features, such as the Campus Recreation Center (formerly the Student Athletic Complex), a volleyball court, a large, low natural green area known as the Burger Bowl, a large, flat artificial green
area known as the SAC Field, and easy access to the Engineer's Bookstore, an alternative to Barnes & Noble (the official GT bookstore). Within easy walking distance of West Campus are
Rocky Mountain Pizza and the City Cafe. It is also home to a music club operated by students called Under the Couch as well as a
small diner and convenience store, West Side Market. Due to limited space, all auto travel proceeds via a confusing maze of
one-way streets which connects West Campus to the larger campus roads Ferst Road and Hemphill Avenue. The primary eating place of
West Campus, Woodruff's, is part of a dormitory building, and is often called Woody's for short.Although the residences are similar, East Campus is decidedly more urban than West Campus. It abuts on the Downtown Connector, a segment of interstate highway where I-75 and I-85 merge, which is infamous for its traffic, and
so suffers from high pollution during peak hours. However, via a number of bridges over the highway as well as a tunnel under it,
East Campus has quick access to Midtown and its commercial businesses such as The
Varsity. It is also home to the majority of Georgia Tech's fraternities and sororities, as well as Georgia Tech's stadiums,
such as the famous Bobby Dodd Stadium. Tech Square is also
accessible on foot from East Campus. East Campus's eating establishment, called Brittain, is modelled after a medieval church,
complete with carved columns and stained-glass windows showing symbolic figures. There are no large green areas in East Campus,
although there are small courtyards. The main road leading from East Campus to Central Campus is a sharp incline often called
"The Hill."Central Campus has no residences, being reserved primarily for academic buildings, such as the Howey Physics Building, the
Boggs Chemistry Building, the College of Computing, the Skiles building, housing the math and humanities departments, and the
Ford Environmental Science & Technology Building. Intermingled with these are a variety of research facilities such as the
Centennial Research Building, the Pettit Microelectronics Research Center, the Electronic Research Building, and the Petit
Biotechnology Building. Tech's administrative buildings, such as the Student Services Building (Flag Building), Tech Tower, and
the Bursar's Office are also located here. However, Central Campus doesn't altogether lack places to waste time; it has a large
library with sizable computer clusters, a small traditional eatery called Junior's Grill, as well as a large communal building
for students called the Student Center, which includes a number of eating places, computer clusters, a game room, the mail room,
the darkened Music Listening Room, and, in front, a fountain monument called the Kessler Campanile, which students often call the
Shaft. The area of Central Campus in front of the Student Center has many trees and green areas, but the rest is sparse.Some areas of Central Campus, such as the Boggs Chemistry and Industrial Engineering buildings, are more accessible from West
Campus. Others, such as Skiles, Junior's, Tech Tower, and the library are more accessible from East Campus. East Campus has foot
access to Tech Square, but Tech Square can also be reached from West Campus via the Tech Trolley transportation system.Georgia Tech also operates a campus in France. Its campus in Lorraine, an
eastern region of France, is known for a much-publicized lawsuit pertaining to the
language used in advertisements;
see Toubon
Law.The university collaborated with the National University of Singapore to set up the The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific in Singapore.