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John C. Portman Jr.

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John Calvin Portman Jr. (December 4, 1924 – December 29, 2017) was an American neofuturistic architect and real estate developer widely known for popularizing hotels and office buildings with multi-storied interior atria. Portman also had a particularly large impact on the cityscape of his hometown of Atlanta, with the Peachtree Center complex serving as downtown's business and tourism anchor from the 1970s onward. The Peachtree Center area includes Portman-designed Hyatt, Westin, and Marriott hotels. Portman's plans typically deal with primitives in the forms of symmetrical squares and circles.

John C. Portman Jr. - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American architect (1924–2017) John C. Portman Jr. Born John Calvin Portman Jr. ( 1924-12-04 ) December 4, 1924 Walhalla, South Carolina , U.S. Died December 29, 2017 (2017-12-29) (aged 93) Atlanta , Georgia, U.S. Occupation Architect Children 6 Relatives Traylor Howard (daughter-in-law) Awards AIA Medal for Innovations in Hotel Design AIA Silver Medal Award for Innovative Design Urban Land Institute Award for Excellence Practice John Portman & Associates John Calvin Portman Jr. (December 4, 1924 – Decem

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