Nov 30, 2020
MANY OF THE MID-CENTURY ARCHITECTURAL DETAILS OF THIS MODERNIST BUILDING — LIKE TERRAZZO FLOORING, BRASS DETAILS AND WOOD PANELING — HAVE BEEN PRESERVED AND ENHANCED. THE 12-STORY BUILDING WAS BUILT IN 1972 AND ORIGINALLY THE NASHVILLE HEADQUARTERS OF FIDELITY FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN.
Nov 30, 2020
When it opened 50 years ago, the Hyatt Regency on Peachtree Street felt like the architectural embodiment of the Space Age. Visitors—14,000 came one opening weekend—gazed up in awe at the 22-story atrium, designed to provide “spatial relief” from the hassles of air travel and city life. That was according to the hotel’s architect (and developer) John […]
Nov 30, 2020
John Portman, an American architect famous for his neo-futuristic aesthetic and fondness for multi-storied atria, designed the Westin. When it first opened in 1976, the 73-story Westin was recognized as one of Atlanta’s first skyscrapers and the tallest hotel in the world. It was the tallest building in the city until the One Atlantic Center […]
Jan 8, 2015
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