SOM’s BI Hospitality Design World Wonder. The hosts for this show are Martin Despang and DeSoto Brown. The guest is Ronald Lindgren. The Big Island of Hawaii was mainly untouched in the early 1960’s when Laurence S. Rockefeller had its Mauna Kea Beach Hotel like fall from the skies like a meteorite which since then […]
BI’s Beach Hotel Around Mauna Kea Vol 4 (Humane Architecture)
SOM’s BI Hospitality Design World Wonder. The hosts for this show are Martin Despang and DeSoto Brown. The guest is Ronald Lindgren. The Big Island of Hawaii was mainly untouched in the early 1960’s when Laurence S. Rockefeller had its Mauna Kea Beach Hotel like fall from the skies like a meteorite which since then […]
BI’s Beach Hotel Around Mauna Kea Vol 3 (Humane Architecture)
SOM’s HI Hospitality Design World Wonder. The hosts for this show are Martin Despang and DeSoto Brown. The guest is Ronald Lindgren. The Big Island of Hawaii was mainly untouched in the early 1960’s when Laurence S. Rockefeller had its Mauna Kea Beach Hotel like fall from the skies like a meteorite which since then […]
BI’s Beach Hotel Around Mauna Kea Vol 2 (Humane Architecture)
SOM’s Hospitality Design World Wonder. The hosts for this show are Martin Despang and DeSoto Brown. The guest is Ronald Lindgren. The Big Island of Hawaii was mainly untouched in the early 1960’s when Laurence S. Rockefeller had its Mauna Kea Beach Hotel like fall from the skies like a meteorite which since then is […]
Big Island’s Beach Hotel Around Mauna Kea (Humane Architecture)
SOM’s Hospitality Design World Wonder. The Big Island of Hawaii was mainly untouched in the early 1960’s when Laurence S. Rockefeller had its Mauna Kea Beach Hotel like fall from the skies like a meteorite which since then is a legendary icon of tropical brutalism. SOM’s project architect Edward Charles Bassett was successful to give […]
Beachy Brutes (Humane Architecture)
How concrete architecture becomes increasingly tropical. Timothy Schuler’s Flux Magazine article “Brutes on the Beach” and the related show with him, DeSoto Brown, Martin Despang furthers a discourse with DeSoto Brown [last week’s show], this being Martin Despang’s reflection on it. The architectural era of tropical brutalism on the Hawaiian Island being up for preservation […]