I was working on a story for Atlanta magazine about the grand reopening of the Polaris restaurant, John C. Portman, Jr.’s iconic revolving blue spaceship atop the Hyatt Regency. He was reluctant ...

ATLANTA - John Calvin Portman Jr., the architect who designed iconic Atlanta landmarks like the Hyatt Regency, AmericasMart, Atlanta Marriott Marquis and the Westin Peachtree Plaza hotel ...

John C. “Jack” Portman III, Portman’s second ... in projects ranging from the Hyatt Regency in downtown Atlanta to the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square. J. Scott Trubey is the ...

Edwards retired in 1968, and the company, renamed John Portman & Associates, would over decades develop a number of downtown landmarks. His Hyatt Regency Atlanta, completed in 1967, with its ...

In 2015, the Atlanta Business Chronicle spoke to John Portman as he unveiled one of ... From Peachtree Center to the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta Marriott Marquis and ...

Marriott Marquis and the Hyatt Regency, not realizing the impact Portman has made not only on Atlanta’s impressive skyline but on downtown development as well. Like Andrew Young, another one of ...

John Portman, the Atlanta architect and developer ... Portman’s first major success, the 22-story Hyatt Regency Atlanta of 1967, was built with Chicago’s Pritzker family, the owners of the ...

which began life in 1967 as the Regency Hyatt House, was designed by the famed Atlanta architect and developer John Portman. It has been expanded numerous times over the years and has remained one ...

Some of Atlanta’s defining buildings, including the Hyatt Regency, Peachtree Center, AmericasMart and the Westin Peachtree Plaza hotel, stand as Portman’s legacy in his hometown. Former Mayor ...

FILE Ñ John Portman in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency hotel, which he designed, in Atlanta, May 31, 2006. Portman, the architect and developer who revolutionized hotel designs with soaring ...

John Portman Jr., the architect/developer who ... who kicked off his grand hotel concepts with the Hyatt Regency Atlanta in 1967, is opening his own signature hotel in May, the Portman in San ...