Dome

Glass elevator, view at the base; Portman is best known for his hotels, a building type for which he evolved a virtually new format. Portman turned the corridor hotel inside-out to create what he called ‘oases within the city’. Portman also introduced the use of cylindrical forms for hotel room towers; examples include the Hyatt Regency Hotel (1971) at O’Hare airport in Chicago, the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel (1976), Atlanta, GA, the Renaissance Center Hotel (1976), Detroit, MI, and the Bonaventure Hotel (1977), Los Angeles, CA. The Bonaventure is currently the largest hotel in Los Angeles. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 6/13/2009)