Interior Urbanism/Portman Space
An exhibition by Charles Rice and Alina McConnochie.
Photograph by Paul Pavlou
Los Angeles Bonaventure Circulation, drawing by Alina McConnochie
Photograph by Paul Pavlou
Los Angeles Bonaventure Circulation, drawing by Alina McConnochie
Los Angeles Bonaventure Hotel, photograph by Charles Rice
Hyatt Atlanta Envelope, drawing by Alina McConnochie
Peachtree Centre Atlanta, photographs by Charles Rice
Renaissance Centre Detroit Circulation, drawing by Alina McConnochie
Renaissance Centre Detroit, photograph by Charles Rice
Photograph by Charles Rice
Beginning with the Hyatt Regency Atlanta of 1967, architect and developer John Portman reinvented the atrium hotel as a panacea for the failing downtowns of American cities. These hotels stand as the centrepieces in extensive networks of enclaved, mixed-use developments that inaugurated interior urbanism as a globally proliferating strategy in city centre development.
The exhibition presents three of Portman’s interior urban projects: The Peachtree Centre, Atlanta, the Los Angeles Bonaventure Hotel, and Detroit’s Renaissance Centre. Through photographic and drawn documentation, the exhibition conveys the spectacular and banal aspects of these vast interiors, as well as the formal and geometrical order which underpins their existence as worlds unto themselves.
The exhibition presents three of Portman’s interior urban projects: The Peachtree Centre, Atlanta, the Los Angeles Bonaventure Hotel, and Detroit’s Renaissance Centre. Through photographic and drawn documentation, the exhibition conveys the spectacular and banal aspects of these vast interiors, as well as the formal and geometrical order which underpins their existence as worlds unto themselves.
