![]() ![]() Its Venetian Room, seating 475, hosted major pop singers of the day including Jack Jones, Tony Bennett, and Robert Goulet. Setting “five star” standards for itself, the $21 million hotel was initially associated with the San Francisco–based Fairmont Hotel chain. ![]() Both the ice rink and the 27-story hotel (initially referred to as a motel due to the auto court and easy access to three levels of underground parking) were ready in 1973. The first building to be completed was 100 Colony Square, a 22-story office tower, ready for occupancy in 1970 a similar height building, 400 Colony Square, was completed five years later. Pedestrians meander through crooked passageways, mini-plazas, and inglenook recesses. The development’s four major buildings were sited in a non-linear relationship to adjacent streets and to each other. The project was initially eleven and a half acres before economic troubles forced the sale of property along 15th Street intended for Colony Square town houses. Its style was a mix of New Formalist and Brutalist aesthetics, apparent in the precast and reinforced concrete frames and board-form concrete surfaces.Ĭolony Square covers just under eight acres along Peachtree Street between 14th and 15th streets in Midtown Atlanta. Colony Square is an early mixed-use urban design combining office, retail, and housing, intended by its developer, Cushman and Wakefield, to create an almost self-sufficient “micropolis”-a colony or viable community-which Metro Atlanta Builder suggested in 1968 may be “the start of a trend which will revitalize Atlanta’s inner city.” The basic layout is credited to landscape architect Paul Friedberg, and the architecture was the first major work of the newly formed partnership Jova/Daniels/Busby. ![]()
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