 Welcome you all back to Human Humane Architecture, the show here from Honolulu, Hawaii that looks into the so desirable compliance between a natural and a built environment. And if we can get the first picture up here, this is actually my first show here in what we call the 3.0 version of think the Kauai here in our new tropical brutalist building in downtown Honolulu on Bishop Street. And the last show, De Soto is here with me and he's actually in his archives in the museum as one of the new features here that were present at different places on the island and in the world potentially here. And our last show De Soto, we basically did when I was still back in Germany and you were sitting here and looking back we feel a little bad because we had to report on a high end luxury exclusive retail store which we usually try to shy away but we're sorry that's the best we can find as of now as new architecture on the island. So that being said, I'm still a little jet laggy here. So the first picture is sort of alluding to that and giving a little bit of a background on what I was doing there besides visiting family and friends at the firm. And at the top right is a reference from our last show when our boys and their ladies were with me to a little sightseeing in downtown Berlin, our capital city in Germany. And as architects, again, as everyone else, the new year shouldn't just be about commerce and consumption, about retail but it should be about reflection of the values we share and the people we look up to. And as architects do that particularly, we want to encourage our emerging generation to have heroes, people you look up to. And our Franklin Lindgren shared with us that one of the guys he looks up to is a British architect named John Parson and this is a recent book spectrum that he just purchased for himself as a Christmas gift. And the person I look up to is a fellow British man, sort of David Chipperfield at the top left. I'm privileged to call him an informal mentor of mine for the last two decades. So I and my boys and girls were checking out some of his recent projects in Berlin. At the bottom left you see his new just completed entrance building on the museum island and at the bottom right you see Mies van der Rohe's National Gallery that he is remodeling. And at the middle on the right you see a New York Times feature of him that says he wants no Chipperfield footprint on the building of his master and mentor Mies. So that being said the National Gallery was actually one of Mies's last projects built in 1968 and that gets us to the next page slowly but surely getting back to the United States but not yet here to our very west but sort of on the other side, a little bit west of the other side here in Chicago, Illinois, where they don't have the Pacific Ocean but the Lake Michigan. And they also have a Lake Shore Drive and the building you see at the very left is actually two protégés of Mies van der Rohe, Heinrich and Chipperade. In the same year of the National Gallery in Berlin they built this in 1968. This is Lake Point Tower. It was at that time the tallest residential structure in the world out of concrete and it's sharing that sort of world record with the building here in town which is the Illinois Hotel built in the early 70s. That was the tallest structure as a hotel in concrete and you see in the middle you see Mies van der Rohe quite some years later at a project that he's mostly known for. This is high-rise residential downtown living Lake Shore Drive apartments. And to the right you see from my prairie days basically having the emerging generation out there we discovered this integrated grocery store that this lady with her blue home dress was walking her sweet potato up. So would you have imagined that you could call Mies a sustainable architect because he was recognizing you don't have to go into your multi-story underground parking garage and drive to the next big box store you get your food. So the bottom are details from Lake Point Tower. They have this really opaque plinth and then this very sort of impressive hole cut in that you enter through a mouse hole and then you look up at the tower and get the dramatic view that you see at the very bottom left. So getting us to the next slide and slowly but surely back to our islands here. The top one is a panoramic view that wants to take us on this little cruise on our Sunset Boulevard starting at the Gold Coast to the very right and then cruising along. And at the bottom you can see that the buildings we admire the most are all from the later mid-century. You see at the very right Edwin Bauer's Lagoon Tower from 1967. Next to it, John Graham's Ilikai 1964 and next to that is prior project the Alamona office building as part of the mall from 61 at that time the tallest office building in town. And then comes where thanks to Alexei and his family that hosted our P.I. mobile for the last three weeks this is a 1315 Alamona Boulevard by Yamazaki. And next slide we allow ourselves to say that everything that has happened in between really can't basically compete as far as integrity with these sort of classical masterpieces. At the bottom here you can see how isolated and pioneering the outstate of 1350 was and at the top left you see a recent development diamondhead side of that that is called Park Lane. And then on the top right you can see what has happened ever side of 1315 Alamona Boulevard which are all pretty hermetic invasive glass boxes so not what the others were as being very exotic, as exotically tropical buildings. And next slide gets us to the next neighborhood this is Kakaako and we've been waiting this you know they had this is where what warehouse was it got torn down then they pulled the Richard Meyer twin towers to make it into a park and we were and we were reporting about the second row Ginny gang ambitious building and we were thinking okay when do they tell us what grade is building they will put there and you made this a Christmas grift for me of sort of a bittersweet kind and next slide and you please tell me and show us what that Christmas gift looked like. Well while you were in Germany there was a big newspaper ad and I took photos of it and sent them to you because it was announcing the construction of yet another condo as part of the Howard Hughes development and this is called Victoria Place and it is going to occupy what had been the diamond head end of the ward warehouse property and I'm not looking at the slides right now so I apologize for not being able to say things in the correct order but one of the things that really struck us as we always are talking about and you can change the slide if it's necessary is that this building again is a large glass box and what we are lacking are the lawn eyes that we should have on tropical buildings and we're here in the tropics and that's what we should be having and in fact this building does not apparently have them and is this where we see the picture also of Joey and Clara? Well that's the next one let's finish this picture because it doesn't look yes it doesn't look anything like the reference to the show with Richard Lowe who had sort of reflected on these wonderful skinny tropical exotic stacked lawn eye buildings that Steve Lowe was proposing for that area and next slide is in fact the one that looks deeper into the building here and yeah talk about what struck you with a picture of Joey and Clara in Berlin Yeah well you sent me a photograph last night in fact of your son Joey and his girlfriend Clara on their lawn eye in their apartment building in Berlin and this is a picture taken in December and it's cold but yet they are sitting in this protected space with a low afternoon sun and they're just wearing t-shirts so if that can happen in Berlin it certainly should be happening here in Honolulu Yeah and that's what you see at the top right and then you also see two pictures from your museum disorder of Victoria Oh yes and her mansion and then they claim on their website that that has something to do with the project that we see on all the other pictures and I have to say at the bottom right you see the building and then another building in the back and both buildings are by the same architect that gets us back to Chicago there about Courtwall Solomon Buens out of Chicago and they already did design this sort of intestine you know including project in the back that has known Nolan eyes and then they do it again and we get a little impatient and angry and we said hey city officials built this into code into law that every building has to have a significantly deep and decent deny if you can do it in Berlin that's your point you should be able to do it where you can use it year round right Exactly and next slide here is us renting one more time here because these are pictures off top left of the exterior of that one and it has this vertical slabs that when I was back in the Howard Hughes headquarters spying there I saw this book on the bottom left that is the brochure of the genie game project and they they were basically promoting and branding it as an exoskeleton and again as we already indicating he's a reference to the top right this is Edward Bowers Lagoon tower that was doing it way more effectively efficiently and poetically half a century ago so you guys we got to do better because in your favorite terms of the evolution on the tradition of innovations if you if you build something new here it got to be better than anything that was the mid-century stuff was pretty good right that's our point Yes absolutely so next slide here is the next parcel is pretty much where word Plaza was that got torn down and we don't know what's happening there the time being we're bold enough to place a primitive here at the top top left which we think is most along the lines of show reference to here there are up and running stronger than ever Mr. Richard Low and Steve Owl so next slide we basically now get to the Kamehameha school art of Kakaako here is a robot odor showing us his projects the very one on the left the Vita by Architonica got pulled but the one in front of him at the very right is the collection and we while we were thinking okay they're not using a Hawaiian washing name but again it's called collection and what is it collected collects a lot of money and a lot of solar gain that we don't need so what what the hell is that right next slide right and the next part of town is this one and where is that and what is that is so well we're looking at downtown Honolulu and this is our aerial view correct yeah and this is a postcard that you purchased fairly recently and obviously if we were to go back in time to the early 1970s a bunch of those high rises wouldn't be there but yet in this very scenic and very important historically important business center there are some different towers that are different from everybody else that you can see on the far right of the cluster of high rises those are different because they are not office buildings but they are residences they are two condo towers in downtown Honolulu they were pioneering at the time they were built because they weren't on any other buildings like that in downtown and that's what we're going to be looking at from here on exactly that's what we see so we were desperately looking even your archives didn't have an early 1970s we wouldn't see than most of these but the one on the very right that's basically nearing and bordering the governmental center of downtown correct so now we're at this building which is a pioneer because as you said this is like almost every downtown in the United States a very monofunctional just working city yes but someone had basically pioneered that and brought a downtown horizontal dwelling into that and that gets us to the next slide because at this point we would wish we would have someone other than us because we know a little to nothing about it but we wish we would have someone who knows about it and this brings back to my memory our friend Ron and why don't the two of us materialize Ron to be with us now and share with us can we do this? Ron speak up your powers have worked because here I am I'm so happy to be back with you again and I'm here to talk as a representative of my boss mentor and friend Ed Killingsworth who designed in 1971 the Harbor Square apartments that you're seeing in that slide and this was really one of the largest urban developments in downtown Honolulu and the largest that Ed ever completed a 26 story condo office development that covers an entire block and there were 360 condo units all one and two bedrooms in the towers and then the podiums themselves contained parking offices a one time busy restaurant and of course the elevator lobbies to reach the condo towers and the offices and in the next slide but before we do that Ron why don't you point out a little side plan at the bottom right in reference I'm so sorry that's the bottom plan is two residential towers at round floor plan that Mies van der Rohe designed in Chicago and I'm actually making the case that when you look to the left of the photograph of the two towers that created Harbor Square and in some respects there's even an improvement in plan because no tower looks directly at themselves as it does in the Mies paired towers they look past each other the views slide past each other's elevations and that's the project we were referenced to at the beginning of the show so here again you know Mies might have been sort of an inspiration for Ed as well and as you always point out that Ed was a classicist and sure Mies was with Shinkle being his great master so here we can say at two decades after a lake show drive apartments he was basically homaging to that and maybe even optimizing improving that right yeah and notice of course there are all in eyes everywhere as we'll talk about in greater detail later and as we talked before and as we will continue to talk about because it should be law here right and here it was go to the next slide and share more with us Ron and here you are yes I'm I was there in Honolulu recently as one of the featured speakers at the Okomomo's National Symposium and Martin was so kind to drive me around in his beautiful car and I have a close relationship with Harbor Square Ed took some of his profits from designing Harbor Square and bought a one bedroom apartment facing east towards Waikiki and it had a wonderful 180 degree view from the mountains to the ocean and if you move to the next slide I Harbor Square for me was a home away from home I often stayed there by myself sometimes with coworkers sometimes with Ed Killingsworth himself in this 865 square foot one bedroom and very spacious unit if you look at the next slide Harbor Square before we look at it in its in its immensity and that is that up early well actually in the later 19th century there used to be a free standard building on the site called the Honolulu Sailors Home and as a result of the zoning requirements in history that Sailors Home had to be incorporated into the design of the Harbor Square at grade and if you go to the next slide I seem to be gazing wonderingly up into a tree but what I'm showing here is this is such an urban project the buildings of the podium buildings go right out to the sidewalks there's only really one garden space it's this lovely rather semi secluded space which also provides access to elevators and to office spaces and to the one of the condo towers and in the next slide I believe Martin you had some comments. Yeah if you go back to the previous slide one more time here at the top right we're referencing to our most emerging practitioner on the island Bandit Kanista Khan at Yudhisoto we're you know quizzing him on his Molulilov project here and he particularly names this place and space as one of the most beautiful ones with really very contemplative character again in a very buzzy vibrant you know urban fabric there is this almost you know this zen and this you were zenning it there Ron and really indulging in that quality in the back of that you see this sort of under the the arcades and under the you see these office spaces because it's a mixed use project that actually up to six stories is basically offices and then the residential is above it and next slide you're right Ron we were looking up and just like Bandit is a representative of the next generation that see and value the legacy of Killingsworth and here's a tenant in there that basically started to basically strip everything off from these sort of ugly suspended you know ceilings and all that stuff and really purified the space just like again in Ed's philosophy and we I started this discussion to ask you why different the Mies van der Rohe who actually had started his very first residential high rise in Chicago was the Promontory Apartments that was actually a concrete building but the concrete was left untreated and not painted and so we got into this discussion about if you had ever asked Ed why all the concrete had always been painted and what were the thoughts about that Ron you know a lot of a lot of some of the painting coatings that were being developed at the time in the 70s began to really protect concrete a great deal from the deterioration that can happen over time especially the sea salt exposure right exactly and I think that's perhaps the main reason for this photograph of that ceiling I'm reminded that Ed Killingsworth hated suspended ceilings and so for example in almost all of his wooden buildings the underside of a very thin wood roof would be exposed as a beautiful wood ceiling and in concrete buildings as much as possible never a suspended ceiling that meant having to work sometimes with the electrician to get lighting fixtures passed into the concrete but that was his druthers great so he would have been very happy to see this here and let's move on to the next slide here and tell us about the plan of the tower this tower here we're going to be talking about both towers the harbour tower which is a bit larger and the town tower but the harbour tower has all one and two bedroom units they range in size from about 865 square feet for a one bedroom to 1200 square feet and you notice in plan that all of them are provided with lanais in fact the two bedroom units mark units 5 and 10 have 25 foot wide lanais which not only do they soften and invigorate the elevations but they provided great sun protection especially for the living room that is at the center of that particular plan and these units were thought of as being for businessmen who maybe had established themselves in Honolulu for some time and would appreciate actually being able to walk to work provided one parking stall included with each of their condos in the harbour tower and a little sort of intel sort of nickname secret you shared with me made me at that picture at the very top right where you see these kind of tenants and because you said the nickname of the tower was actually the principles tower these principles as they looked back in the days and they probably look the same these days although then the lower shirt came it became sort of socially correct right you just had a couple of exhibits about it let's move on to the next slide and look at these units and here at the lanais and share with us what you think is all marvellous this happens to be a lanai of one of the two bedroom corner units and you're not seeing it furnished although a little later we'll see some pictures of just how much furniture you could put out there so that it was an outdoor room but you're up high looking over the city as you see in this particular picture towards the mountains so this shows the ambiance and the character of what your view would have been like living in a corner unit of the harbour tower and the little references to previous shows on the top right once again to the 1350 in alamona boulevard that was built only three years before that and you before the show reminded me also should have thrown in a picture of the kahala hotel because while the killings worth over and body of work was very rectilinear these are a few examples where you guys got to see what was happening and in the next slide you'll see that same corner unit but now you're inside the living room you see how spacious those were just imagine what that view at night would be with all the office lights across the streets and in the next slide down you're seeing another unit this time rather sparsely furnished but look at that line I a table two chairs around the table two additional chairs and all looking out gloriously out over the harbour to the to the open ocean that's right and it and in the next slide I this is my favorite unit I visited friend who had one though I was staying in one bedroom this is the clearest expression of a two bedroom unit where there are bedrooms flanking each side of a living room that line I is twenty five feet long and it is another room it's almost if you actually figured out the area though the night it's almost the same square footage as that of the interior living room that is very grander and in the in the next slide you see just how large that line I is in this case it looks like our principles not have retired because they have some rocking chairs on their lineup but here again is the view over the city because you're up high enough to the mountains and you're looking down in fact on the recreation deck of harbour square which was the seventh floor and talking about comfort Ron it reminds me of your Waikiki Park hotel recently converted into the Halapuna where I was critical about that they had been taking away what I call side ventilation and that's not an official term but what I mean is that if you open the sliding doors that you see here on both ends of the lanai you get some nice breeze through although it's not a corner unit in the corner units it works even better right so it's a very biochlamatic proposition right yes very much so and when we joined together again next week really interested in showing people the second tower called the town tower because as we called the harbour tower the place maybe that the principles might live you know maybe the bankers they had accountants the people that were consultants for years those who were established a little bit older the idea that Ed had for the second tower the town tower was to have smaller units still one and two bedroom but less expensive and more for people who maybe are new to Honolulu and just starting out their business career so we'll be looking at the plans of the town tower next week and talking through that which also has lanai's provided for every unit which covers the living rooms and the bedrooms yeah and to get you guys even more excited which after what you said I believe it's already enough exciting but I'm chipping in another I'm chipping in the nickname of what you gave that tower to get people even more crazy about it so what's what's your nickname for that tower to come well this was whereas the harbour tower was the principles towers there had to be a place for a secretaries tower on that note I think everyone will return next week no doubt on that and until then thank you both so much for having you know try to shed a light on this in the in the body of work of killingsworth still rather mysterious project because that's one of the projects where you have the lease documentation but we try to work away through the project and there is lots of very exciting stuff to come so until then thank you very much thank you Bishop Museum the Soto thank you Long Beach Ron and see you next week for the volume two of killingsworth Honolulu harbour square bye bye