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Viewer protection, for example, explains the shape of San Francisco's Embarcadero Fountain, designed by Canadian Sculptor Armand Vaillancourt. Its writhing concrete contours have been described as "Stonehenge unhinged with plumbing troubles," but the fountain splashes no passerby. It is, however, laced with "lily pad" walks that offer a spray-drenched way, daring visitors to walk beneath its eccentric geometry...
That success earned Portman even more ambitious jobs. In San Francisco, he joined with Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller, Dallas Developer Trammell Crow and the Prudential Investment Corp. to build Embarcadero Center, often called "Rockefeller Center West"-an 8.5-acre, $200 million office, apartment and hotel project. In Detroit, Henry Ford II called on Portman to save the city's dying downtown by designing the 32-acre, $200 million Renaissance Center...
...bankrolled dramatic additions to urban skylines in 25 states, Europe and South America. Recent building projects that Crow has helped finance include the $150 million, 131-acre Park Central business and recreation center in North Dallas, Atlanta's $175 million Peachtree Center, San Francisco's Embarcadero Center (the last two with Atlanta Architect John Portman). Conservative and lukewarm toward the environmental movement, he attributes his success to a pragmatic "Sunday-school" philosophy of hard work, learning from mistakes and, above all, correctly anticipating real estate needs...
Portman is now working his special magic in other urban areas. In San Francisco, he is chief planner and part owner of the $200 million Embarcadero Center rising near the waterfront. In Detroit, Henry Ford II selected him to design Renaissance Center, a $500 million development that should give a new spin to the Motor City. He also has buildings completed or planned in Chicago, Chattanooga, Los Angeles, Fort Worth, Brussels and Paris. Last week the gentle, soft-spoken Portman, 48, announced that he will make his first foray into Manhattan, putting up a $150 million combination hotel-theater that...
...through elevators, Portman has been the architect for $ 153 million in other Atlanta development, including the attractive Peachtree Center, a complex with vast business spaces imaginatively broken up by restaurants, sidewalk cafes and fountains. Now a multimillionaire, Portman was picked to design San Francisco's new Embarcadero Center, Detroit's $500 million waterfront renovation, and projects in Fort Worth, Los Angeles and Brussels...