A monthly contest from the editors of RECORD asks you to guess the architect for a work of historical importance.
Clue: This hotel, perched along the breathtaking coast of a large Pacific island, was designed by a corporate firm best known for a series of pioneering commercial towers. Rendered in concrete, the hotel’s terraced mass conceals a series of interior gardens and courtyards that form a counterpoint to the sweeping ocean views outside its doors.
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Last month's answer: The design of the Palazzetto dello Sport, located in Rome, is often credited to engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, who pioneered thin-shell concrete structures and worked with architect Annibale Vitellozzi on this venue for the 1960 Olympics. It was designed to seat 5,000 spectators under its oculus-topped dome, whose flared edges and canted buttresses lend the structure a distinctly animalistic feel; the critic Bruno Zevi went so far as to liken it to an “enormous jellyfish.
Photo courtesy Maxxi Museum
