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Riot has been developed by the OM Theatre Workshop of Boston, under the direction of Julie Portman. The entire company contributes perfectly to the total effect. Riot is born of despair and imparts only frustration. How you individually manage to work out that frustration is the real challenge of the evening...
Prime mover behind Atlanta's "oneman urban-renewal plan" is Architect John Portman, 43, who has won hometown honors, architectural awards-and become a millionaire to boot-by insisting that he be both promoter and part owner as well as designer for all of Peachtree Center. Making himself his own client is the only way, Portman has found, to retain "the authority to see that the project is carried out properly and not botched along the way." In his multiple role, he has seen to it that the buildings are a far cry from the run-of-the-drafting...
Exploding Space. Portman had to earn his right to what he calls "total creativity" in the hard dollars-and-cents market. Soon after graduating from Georgia Tech's architectural school ('50), he decided: "If I come up with an idea and promote and develop it myself, there won't be any question about who is going to be the architect." His first venture was a new medical building. It gained him the kudos of the medical profession but was a promotional failure. Recalls Portman wryly: "I lost about $7,500, which I didn't have...
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. loaned him $8,000,000 for the new Mart, and additional backing came from Atlanta Real Estate Man Ben Massell and Dallas Multimillionaire Trammell Crow. Portman ended up being the president and a major stockholder of the Mart, a structure built precisely according to his specifications. In the case of the new Regency Hyatt House (TIME, June 2), Portman formed a development corporation that gave him design and financial control right from the start. As a result, he was able to demonstrate his concept of "exploded space," by which he means dramatizing the flow and interpenetration...
...Portman's bold design has already paid off. Though the hotel has been accepting guests for only a month and will not open officially for another two weeks, it already has well over $30 million in advance bookings. Visitors' reactions to the courtyard range from "a fabulosity" (an Atlanta attorney) to "the eighth wonder of the world" (a Chicago businessman). Indeed, so many bowled-over guests blurt out "Jeez!"-or stronger-when they first gaze up into 21 stories of space that hotel employees have already dubbed the spot in the lobby where the full height is first...