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Hyatt Regency Atlanta Downtown

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When it opened 50 years ago, theĀ Hyatt Regency on Peachtree StreetĀ 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 ā€œspatial reliefā€ from the hassles of air travel and city life. That was according to the hotel’s architect (and developer) John Portman. Visitors sipped cocktails in Le Parasol Lounge under the watch of macaws, parrots, and cock-of-the-rock birds housed in a three-story aviary. Guests queued for a rocket ride in glass elevators—the most expensive of their time—to Polaris, the blue-domed rotating restaurant on the roof. Today, the entrance tunnel is a wall of glass, the aviary is gone, and the fountain was long ago replaced by Richard Lippold’s ā€œFlora Rarisā€ sculpture. But Polaris,Ā which reopened in 2014 after sitting vacant for 10 years, is spinning again, showcasing the downtown that Portman, the city’s most influential architect, helped define.

COPYRIGHT 1967 ALEXANDRE GEORGES, HYATT REGENCY ATLANTA COLLECTION, THE PORTMAN ARCHIVES, LLC

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Created with Sketch. 265 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30303 US

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30/05/2023
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Mark Thomas

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