Originally Posted by
psusaver
thanks for the detailed review with lot of pictures and tips. A small note, what does "what a decade" mean in the context of describing that atrium? Is it ten years old (younger than the hotel but old still), or did you mean to say "facade" and mistyped. I do that sometimes with certain words too.
thanks
Many thanks for reading! I apologise for the misunderstanding. By that statement, I was referring to the 90s (well, the late 80s to the mid-90s) during which time the grand atrium hotels (particularly, the designs of John Portman) were very popular in Asia and frankly around the world.
During that time, there were many atrium style hotels that opened in Asia, including the Regent Singapore (1992), Grand Hyatt Shanghai (1999), Gran Melia Jakarta (1995), Mandarin Oriental Singapore, Marina Mandarin Singapore, Pan Pacific Singapore, Island Shangri-la Hong Kong (1991), Portman Ritz-Carlton Shanghai (1990) among others...