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His initial designs in Hawaiʻi were eclectic. Influences of the then popular Richardsonian Romanesque style can be seen in Punahou School's Pauahi Hall (1894–96), the Bishop Estate Building on Merchant Street (1896), the Irwin Block (Nippu Jiji building) on Nuuanu Street (1896), [4] and Progress Block on Fort Street (1897) in Downtown Honolulu, the last now occupied by Hawaii Pacific ...
Hart Wood FAIA (December 26, 1880 – October 6, 1957) was an American architect who flourished during the "Golden Age" [1] of Hawaiian architecture.He was one of the principal proponents of a distinctive "Hawaiian style" of architecture appropriate to the local environment and reflective of the cultural heritage of the islands.
Hawaiian architecture is a distinctive architectural style developed and employed primarily in the Hawaiian Islands. Though based on imported Western styles, unique Hawaiian traits make Hawaiian architecture stand alone against other styles.
Cooke left the estate to the Academy of Arts, which sold it in 1946 to Elizabeth Marks, the wealthy daughter of Lincoln L. McCandless. [2] Her husband Lester Marks was a land commissioner for the Territory who resigned in 1949 when Governor Ingram M. Stainback decided to build a new Pali Highway up Nuʻuanu Valley, right through the middle of ...
The Hawai'i Hochi Building is a notable edifice that exemplifies a meld of Brutalist aesthetics with the tropical ambiance of Hawaii. Located at 917 Kokea St., Honolulu, Hawaii, the building was conceived by the distinguished Japanese architect Kenzo Tange, a laureate of the Pritzker Prize, and was constructed in 1972, marking it one of Tange's two completed architectural ventures in the ...
Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of developed land or parcels to others.
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Kapalua Land Company, Ltd. (KLC) operates the Kapalua Resort of 1,650 acres (6.7 km 2), along with the development and sale of real estate on the resort. KLC was established in 1975 and manages resort holdings of over 800 residences, homesites and condominiums, golf courses, tennis courts, a spa, retail and pro shops.