Pestana Park Paradise Vol 2 (Humane Architecture)
Channel: ThinkTech Hawaii
Date: 07/10/2021

Madeira’s Niemeyer’s Hospitality.  The hosts for this show are Martin Despang and DeSoto Brown.  

Continuing to compare our Polynesian and what is called the Macaronesian Hawaii being Madeira Portugal this episode looks for the equivalent of in the past five episodes featured Mauna Kea Beach Hotel and finds it in the Pastena Park Hotel by Brazilian modern master architect Oscar Niemeyer in collaboration with Portuguese architect Alfredo Viana de Lima. With its many parallels of zeitgeist, materiality and noblesse there is a major difference in affordability making the Manau Kea Beach Hotel exclusive and the Pestana Park Hotel inclusive tributing to Niemeyer’s socialist to say the least as many say  communist approach vs Mauna Kea Beach Hotel’s Rockefeller and his architect SOM’s capitalist approach.

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