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...Portman also built the second tallest hotel, Atlanta's 70-story Peachtree Center Plaza Hotel...
...Fortunately, Henry Ford II decided five years ago to preside over an enviable rebirth on the Detroit River. The big "catalyst," as Ford put it, would be construction of the $337 million Renaissance Center, consisting of shops, offices and the world's tallest hotel, all designed by John Portman, the Atlanta architect-planner-financier...
...project's cavernous passages. The 73-story Detroit Plaza Hotel has only three-quarters of its 1,400 rooms ready for occupancy. A reflective-glass cylinder, the hotel has an eight-story atrium lobby with a central pond and curved balconies-all standard elements of the style of Portman.* Few shops and restaurants have opened their doors, since the 350,-000-sq.-ft., tri-level mall housing most of them is still under construction. Ren Cen's four 39-story, octagonal office towers are finished, but only 68% of this is rented-much of that because Ford Motor...
...porticoed mansions along the James River to the bare Martian surfaces of the Permian basin. It includes the clear alpine valleys of the Blue Ridge and the subtropical swamps of south Georgia. It boasts the 18th century architecture of Charleston, S.C., and the climbing glass silos by John Portman in Atlanta. Its exports include cotton and tobacco to the North, politicians to Washington, novelists to the world and rockets to outer space...
...Does Portman's flamboyant touch guarantee a profit? One answer comes from the Peachtree Center Plaza Hotel. Though just opened, it has already been 40% booked through...