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Architect-Entrepreneur John Portman has done as much as anyone to turn Atlanta into a boom town-and a good-looking one at that. In the process he has become a multimillionaire. Once a part-time usher in a local moviehouse, he designed and was an initial owner of the $200 million Peachtree Center complex of office buildings, shops, restaurants and hotels, including the spectacular Hyatt Regency Atlanta, that has revived the city's downtown...
...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...
...JOHN PORTMAN, 47, architect. Made famous with his design for Atlanta's Regency Hyatt House, with its soaring 21-story lobby and see-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...
...development will renovate a 28.5-acre plot on the shore of the Detroit River. Now occupied by decrepit commercial buildings, the area by 1980 will contain a soaring hotel, four office towers, apartment buildings and retail stores. To design the project, Ford has hired Architect John Portman, a vehement believer in the vitality of cities with proven experience in planning Atlanta's Peachtree Center and San Francisco's Embarcadero Center. Said Ford: "We all know what Chicago has done with its lakefront area. I think we in Detroit should be able to do at least as well along...
Died. Eric Portman, 66, commanding figure of British stage and screen for nearly half a century; in Cornwall, England. Broodingly handsome, Portman starred at the Old Vic as early as 1927, and during his career appeared in more than 100 British productions. Americans know him best for his Broadway roles in Separate Tables (1956), O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet (1958) and A Passage to India...