John C. Portman Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJohn C. Portman Jr.
American architect and real estate developer
Date of Birth: 04-Dec-1924
Place of Birth: Walhalla, South Carolina, United States
Date of Death: 29-Dec-2017
Profession: architect, Real estate development
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About John C. Portman Jr.
- John Calvin Portman Jr.
- (December 4, 1924 – December 29, 2017) was an American neofuturistic architect and real estate developer widely known for popularizing hotels and office buildings with multi-storied interior atria.
- Portman also had a particularly large impact on the cityscape of his hometown of Atlanta, with the Peachtree Center complex serving as downtown's business and tourism anchor from the 1970s onward.
- The Peachtree Center area includes Portman-designed Hyatt, Westin, and Marriott hotels.
- Portman's plans typically deal with primitives in the forms of symmetrical squares and circles.
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