PCAD - Portman, John C. and Associates

Aerial view of the Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, c. 2019. From Google Maps/Street View

Aerial view of the Hilton Hotel Bayfront (upper left) with relative location to Petco Park (lower center) and San Diego Convention Center (upper center), San Diego, CA, c. 2019. From Google Maps/Street View

Aerial view of the Hilton Hotel Bayfront, San Diego (center), San Diego, CA, c. 2019. From Google Maps/Street View

Exterior view of the Hilton Hotel Bayfront, San Diego, CA, 2013. From Wikimedia Commons, photograph by Bernard Gagnon

Exterior view of the street facade of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, 2017. From Google Maps/Street View

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Willi Gutmann, John Calvin Portman Jr.

Active 1968-present

Atlanta-based architectural firm best known for its flamboyant hotels with soaring, multi-floor atria.

PCAD id: 48

Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Bonaventure Hotel, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1974-1976	Los Angeles	CA
Bunker Hill Hotel and Retail Complex, Los Angeles, CA	1970	Los Angeles	CA
Embarcadero Center, 1 Embarcadero Center, Two Columns with Wedge Sculpture, San Francisco, CA	1971	San Francisco	CA
Embarcadero Center, 4 Embarcadero Center, "The Tulip" Sculpture, San Francisco, CA		San Francisco	CA
Embarcadero Center, 5 Embarcadero Center, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Eclipse Sculpture, San Francisco, CA	1973	San Francisco	CA
Embarcadero Center, Herman, Justin, Plaza, "La Chiffonniere," San Francisco, CA		San Francisco	CA
Embarcadero Center, Herman, Justin, Plaza, Vaillancourt Fountain, San Francisco, CA	1971	San Francisco	CA
Embarcadero Center, Master Plan, San Francisco, CA	1969-1974	San Francisco	CA
Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA		San Francisco	CA
Embarcadero Center, Security Pacific National Bank, San Francisco, CA		San Francisco	CA
Hilton Hotels Corporation, Hilton Hotel Bayfront, San Diego, CA	2008	San Diego	CA
Hyatt Corporation, Hyatt Regency Hotel, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA	1971	Burlingame	CA

Publications

Florance, Colden, "The MXD as a 'Tool for Treating Nlight' and a Design Challenge", AIA Journal, 66: 10, 32-33, 09/1977. Pastier, John, "Evaluation: San Francisco's Hyatt Regency Hotel as a Spatial Landmark ", AIA Journal, 66: 11, 36-43, 10/1977. "Re-run in San Francisco", Architecture Plus, 1: 6, 12, 07/1973. Barnett, Jonathan, "Making New: How Portman Does It", Design and Environment, 7: 3, 16-19, Fall 1976. Bednar, Michael J., Interior Pedestrian Places, 115, 1989. Bednar, Michael J., Interior Pedestrian Places, 79, 113, 115, 1989. Redstone, Louis G., New Downtowns, 58, 1976. Redstone, Louis G., New Downtowns, 57, 153, 1976. Redstone, Louis G., New Downtowns, 161-162, 1976.