John C. Portman, Jr.

John C. Portman, Jr. ( born December 4, 1924 in Walhalla, Oconee County, State of South Carolina ) is an American architect and real estate developer. He was known primarily for the building type he invented the multi-storey atrium hotel.

Life

Portman graduated in 1950 training at the Georgia Institute of Technology from. In 1953 he founded the architectural firm in Atlanta, John Portman & Associates.

The Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles and the Renaissance Center in Detroit are two of the early buildings in which Portman applied the atrium design; these hotels made ​​him widely known. This is part of the hotel chain Marriott Renaissance Center was the time of its opening in 1977 of the world's tallest hotel building, its central tower is since 1986 at least still one of the tallest hotel buildings in the western world. It was also the most expensive Mariott hotel.

Portman is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA ).

Buildings (selection)

  • AmericasMart, Building 1-3, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  • Hyatt Regency, Atlanta
  • Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, California
  • Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel, Atlanta
  • Peachtree Center, Atlanta
  • Marriott Marquis Hotel, Atlanta
  • New York Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City
  • Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles
  • Renaissance Center, Detroit
  • Embarcadero Center, San Francisco
  • SunTrust Plaza, Atlanta
  • Inforum ( current name American Cancer Society Center ), Atlanta
  • Shanghai Centre (Hotel Park Hyatt Shanghai), Shanghai, China
  • Westin Hotel Warsaw, Poland
  • Westin Hotel Philadelphia
  • Sampoerna Tower, Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Ritz- Carlton Hotel Jakarta
  • Medical Center Baltimore
  • Schaumberg Place Building, Chicago
  • Old Orchard Commercial Center ( refurbishment), Skokie, Illinois
  • The Oriental Singapore (now Mandarin Oriental ), Singapore

Awards

  • AIA Medal for Innovations in Hotel Design of the National American Institute of Architects, 1978
  • Silver Medal Award for Innovative Design of the Atlanta Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 1980
  • Award for Excellence by the Urban Land Institute for the Embarcadero Center, 1984
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