John Portman's Paintings and Sculptures Revealed

PRLog (Press Release) - Feb 03, 2010 -
“John Port­man: Art and Archi­tec­ture” is a won­der­ful exhibit that can now be viewed at the High Museum through April 18, 2010. This venue fea­tures some of the extra­or­di­nary projects designed by the incom­pa­ra­ble Atlanta native.

In addi­tion to many of John Portman’s design plans, large-scale pho­tographs, arti­cles and detailed archi­tec­tural mod­els will be shown.

Per­haps the most inter­est­ing works in the gallery are John Portman’s paint­ings and sculp­ture. Most of these have never been pub­licly pre­sented at an exhibit before.

John Port­man grad­u­ated from the Geor­gia Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy in 1956. In 1967 he gar­nered inter­na­tional acclaim for his design of the 22 story atrium, the first of its kind, in the Hyatt Regency Atlanta.

Down­town Atlanta is home to many of his other land­mark projects includ­ing the Westin Peachtree Plaza, The Atlanta Mar­riott Mar­quis, Amer­i­c­as­Mart, and the Peachtree Cen­ter Com­plex. Amer­i­c­as­Mart is cur­rently the largest whole­sale mar­ket­place in the world.

Even more com­pelling are his inter­na­tional projects such as the Incheon 151 Tower at Songdo Land­mark City, Incheon, Korea which will be the world’s sec­ond largest build­ing when com­pleted, or the Zhe Jiang For­tune Finance Cen­ter in Hangzhou, China. Other works include Tomor­row Square, Shang­hai, China; Bei­jing Yin­tai Cen­tre, Bei­jing, China; Marina Square, Sin­ga­pore; Jin Hongqiao Inter­na­tional Cen­ter, Shang­hai China; and the Wen­zhou Zhixin Plaza, Wen­zhou, China.

Other projects high­lighted at the fas­ci­nat­ing High Museum event, titled John Port­man: Art and Archi­tec­ture, com­prise of Ent­elechy I — his stun­ning Atlanta home built in 1964; Ent­elechy II his sprawl­ing home in Sea Island, Geor­gia; Sun Trust Plaza, Atlanta; the Embar­cadero Cen­ter and Hyatt Regency, San Fran­sico, the Westin Bonaven­ture Hotel, Los Ange­les, Cal­i­for­nia; and the mag­nif­i­cent Renais­sance Cen­ter in Detroit, Michigan.

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