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John Calvin Portman Jr. (born December 4 1924; Walhalla South Carolina) is an American 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.
