The Ala Moana Hotel is a hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii , opened in 1970. It adjoins the Ala Moana Shopping Center and is across the street from the Hawaii Convention Center as well as the Ala Moana Beach Park .
10-811: The Ala Moana Hotel was designed by the Seattle architectural firm of John Graham & Company . It opened in 1970 as part of Flagship Hotels, the hotel division of American Airlines . The hotel was renamed the Ala Moana Americana in 1972, when American bought Americana Hotels. The Ala Moana Americana was sold by co-owners Dillingham Corp. and Pick-Americana Hotels of Dallas to the Japan-based Azabu USA in 1986 for $ 70 million. Azabu undertook $ 31 million in renovations and brought in Ramada Renaissance Hotels to manager
20-560: A short-lived satellite office of his father's firm in New York City in 1937, and took over the main office in 1946. Renaming the firm to John Graham & Company, the firm expanded a relatively modest regional practice to an office with national presence. It was ultimately responsible for over a thousand commissions. Their primary focus was commercial projects. Many were straightforward mid-century modernist office towers, such as San Francisco's 1967 44 Montgomery tower. But Graham
30-727: The 1920s and 30s, he would design hundreds of commercial and public buildings in the Seattle area including the Frederick & Nelson store (now Nordstrom ) in 1916. He also helped found the Seattle Yacht Club and designed all of their original facilities. He retired from architecture in 1945 and died on March 20, 1955, while on tour in Hong Kong . John Graham Jr. (1908–91) was born and raised in Seattle, Washington . After graduating from Yale University , he established
40-669: The Seattle architect Victor Steinbrueck , a consultant on the project, claimed design credit; the design was also influenced by the Century 21 Exposition design standards and aerospace theme established by supervising architect Paul Thiry . Clearly the revolving restaurant , the "Eye of the Needle", was Graham's conception. He'd already devised " La Ronde " for the Ala Moana Shopping Center in Honolulu in 1961, and
50-847: The hotel to the Australia-based Mantra Group for $ 52.5 million in 2016. The Ala Moana Hotel has 1,169 rooms. The 36-story building has a height of 396 feet (121 m). It is not to be confused with the Moana Surfrider Hotel , which was built about 70 years earlier. Ala Moana Hotel was recognized by the Building Industry Association of Hawaii as a 2006 Parade of Homes standout. 21°17′25″N 157°50′22″W / 21.290277°N 157.839310°W / 21.290277; -157.839310 John Graham %26 Company John Graham & Company , or John Graham & Associates
60-502: The property, which was renamed Ramada Renaissance Ala Moana Hotel . Azabu sold the Ala Moana for $ 85 million in 2004 to Crescent Heights, a Miami-based condominium developer. Crescent Heights sold approximately 800 of the hotel's 1154 rooms as condominium units, for approximately $ 200,000 each. Outrigger Hotels took over management of the hotel portion in 2006, though the hotel did not take on their name. Outrigger sold their interest in
70-526: Was also responsible for early development of the enclosed shopping mall genre, notably Seattle's Northgate Shopping Center , which opened April 21, 1950, which anticipates the better-known Northland Center in Detroit by four years. The firm would go on to design seventy malls nationwide. The authorship of Graham's single most prominent work, the Space Needle , is disputed. Both Graham's office and
80-578: Was designing the reconstruction of the Trinity Parish Church at Eight Avenue and James Street in 1902 after it had been damaged by fire. After a brief partnership with Alfred Bodley in 1904, Graham founded the firm of Graham & Myers with David J. Myers in 1906. He would work with Myers until 1910. As architect for the Ford Motor Company , he designed more than 30 of Ford's assembly plants between 1912 and 1940. Throughout
90-700: Was merged into the DLR Group on May 19, 1986, and the name saw full deletion in 1998. John Graham was born in Liverpool, England , in 1873. He apprenticed as an architect in England as a young man. First visiting Seattle, Washington , in 1896, he immigrated to the United States in 1900, starting a one-man architectural practice in Seattle. He started off modestly, designing mainly industrial-related buildings and private residences. His first notable project
100-467: Was the name of an architectural firm, founded in 1900 in Seattle, Washington , by English-born architect John Graham (1873–1955), and maintained by his son John Graham Jr. (1908–1991). The firm was responsible for many Seattle landmarks and a number of significant structures nationwide, including the Space Needle , Chase Tower of Rochester, New York , and the Westin Seattle . The firm
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