John C. Portman Jr.

John Calvin Portman Jr. was an American neofuturistic architect and real estate developer widely known for popularizing hotels and office buildings with multi-storied interior atria. Portman also had a particularly large impact on the cityscape of his hometown of Atlanta, with the Peachtree Center complex serving as downtown's business and tourism anchor from the 1970s onward. The Peachtree Center area includes Portman-designed Hyatt, Westin, and Marriott hotels. Portman's plans typically deal with primitives in the forms of symmetrical squares and circles. ^{John C. Portman Jr., American architect, designed the Renaissance Center and Tomorrow Square (d. 2017)}

4 December 1924

Born on the same birth day (4 December): AD 34 • Agnes Forbes Blackadder • Alfred Hershey • Andy Hess • Blake Leary • Brian Cook (basketball) • Horst Buchholz • Jim Hall (musician) • Joan Brady (American-British writer) • John Aislabie • Jules Armand Dufaure • Max Baer Jr. • Roh Tae-woo • Ronnie Corbett • Suzette M. Malveaux • The Gathering (band) • The Nun of Monza

Born in the same month (December 1924): Alexander Haig • Bent Fabric • Carlo Chiti • Charlie Callas • Else Marie Pade • Frank Broyles • Girma Wolde-Giorgis • Jim McClure (politician) • John Love (racing driver) • Jonathan Frid • Lee Dorsey • Roberto Mieres • Wally Cox • Wiel Coerver