BI's Beach Hotel Around Mauna Kea Vol 2 (Humane Architecture)
Channel: ThinkTech Hawaii
Date: 26/08/2021

SOM’s Hospitality Design World Wonder.  The hosts for this show are Martin Despang and DeSoto Brown.  The guest is Ronald Lindgren.  

The Big Island of Hawaii was mainly untouched in the early 1960’s when Laurence S. Rockefeller had its Mauna Kea Beach Hotel like fall from the skies like a meteorite which since then is a legendary  icon of tropical brutalism.
SOM’s project architect Edward Charles Bassett was successful to give the resort a tropical exotic easy breezy gestalt.
The show describes and discusses its historic zeitgeist context as the project itself along with material from the architects, hotel and Bishop Museum’s DeSoto Brown.


The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this show is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6kDcGh5KYsLd28-x3DBXGjI


ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Hawaii time most weekdays, then we stream our earlier shows all night long.  Check us out any time for great content and great community.

Our vision is to be a leader in shaping a more vital and thriving Hawaii as the foundation for future generations. Our mission is to be the leading digital media platform raising public awareness and promoting civic engagement in Hawaii.