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Hale is a traditional form of Hawaiian architecture, known for its distinctive style, practicality, and close relationship with the natural environment. These indigenous structures were designed to be highly functional, meeting a menagerie of needs in Hawaiian society.
The earliest form of Hawaiian architecture originates from what is called ancient Hawaiʻi—designs employed in the construction of village shelters from the simple shacks of outcasts and slaves, huts for the fishermen and canoe builders along the beachfronts, the shelters of the working class makaʻainana, the elaborate and sacred heiau of ...
The Liljestrand House at 3300 Tantalus Drive in Honolulu, Hawaii, was designed by Vladimir Ossipoff for Betty and Howard Liljestrand, a doctor and nurse who had bought the hillside site overlooking downtown Oahu in 1948. Completed in 1952, the house "was perhaps Ossipoff's most intricate as well as his most widely publicized domestic commission."
CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA @STARADVERTISER.COM This property at 91-270 Fort Weaver Road, top, shown Tuesday, is the former home of the Pacific Warning Tsunami Center, where Hawaiian homestead ...
The Rulers of Hawaii, The Chiefs and Chiefesses, Their Palaces, Monuments, Portraits and Tombs. Honolulu: Advertiser Publishing Company. OCLC 9380797. Williams, Riánna M. (2015). Queen Liliʻuokalani, the Dominis Family, and Washington Place, their home. Honolulu: Ka Mea Kakau Press. ISBN 978-0-692-37922-6. OCLC 927784027.
The King Kamehameha Golf Course Clubhouse, formerly known as the Waikapu Valley Country Club, is a building in Waikapu, Maui, Hawaii.The structure is based on the unbuilt Arthur Miller house (1957) originally conceived by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959).
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 ...
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