 Good to see you back here on our seasonally increasingly snow birdie tropical exotic hood of Waikiki in our city of Honolulu on our island of Oahu has been part of our Hawaiian islands here. That's true. And the Soto Brown and Martin de Speng are going to talk about the snow birdie part. That's right, since snow is starting to fall on the North America as we speak. And soon in Germany it gets to the freezing point at night. That's where you're going to be cold. Pretty soon, yeah. Okay. So let's bring up slide number one here because the way we fly here in big birds and planes isn't forming architecture. So from the bottom right clockwise here, you've been there doing construction TWA by Saranen in New York. They kind of repurpose it as a hotel lobby and you said you will go there and spend there night. I will do, I will go visit it. I've suggested something similar here to the Blaisdale and just keeping the goodies and then building something new in the back doesn't seem to like it. No. Someone listened to us, never mind. Bottom left is when I came here with two bags some seven years ago, I had the chance that you didn't in Mr. Pirera who was an architect who came from Hollywood and basically also was the campus architect for University of California in Irvine. We need that good campus architecture. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I had the best spicy chicken burger in that restaurant that then the year after close so you can get there anymore. And I've never got to go in, but you did. No, no, but you grew up in our airport's architect's house by Ossipoth and we also have a building that actually has the name of an airline that's not around anymore and that's Pan Am. Yeah. So that's how aviation is informing architecture on the island here, but there was these airlines that we know and I went to this sort of t-shirt store Malibu Shirts and they have these vintage shirts of airlines that aren't around anymore and you can't get a shirt for today's show because this airline is still around and they don't brand themselves with t-shirts. Right. And they do the next slide and tell us which airline that is. Well that's United Airlines and United Airlines was the second airline that was authorized to fly to the Hawaiian Islands by the federal government in 1947 and Pan Am had been first in the 1930s and once United Airlines began flying here they began advertising this route very actively because it was very lucrative and that is going to inform what we're going to talk about the fact that this was a very important destination monetarily for United Airlines and that is obviously what we see in this picture here. So let's next slide, let's go deep into the jungle of Waikiki, there's a place we've been reporting about with exotic escapism expert Suzanne in trying to find tiki places and reconnecting and we found the cuckoo coconut place there and in the back of it. And I've been there too, with you. There you go, we've been there with Moggy. That's right. That's right. And then there's our cuckoo tree there in the middle of Waikiki in an urban jungle and in this sort of jungly way next slide also you know Airlines has been branding right? Yes absolutely. These are things from your archive treasures. Yeah these are from my collection and as you pointed out they're using a lot of ethnically Hawaiian activity or imagery here, the kiwi, the fish, the flowers, the woman offering the lei, all pushing that Hawaiianness. And next slide most people might actually know the building now because of a nicely jungly little culinary place there, this little restaurant on the side of it and that's how it basically looks like. Let's capture a moment in time with a brilliant picture that you gave from your archive that really shows the relationship between that sort of jet stream sleek airplane and mid-century sleek architectural booming next slide and here we go. Yeah so the picture that we see here is a United Airlines jet flying over Diamond Head, the Gold Coast is below as you said, this is the epitome of modernity in the 1960s, the jet set flying here and there and that's the time period that the building is from that we're going to talk about that we just saw. And luckily we just had the National Locomomo Symposium here that was looking for these pockets where we still have that and there are some and actually next slide this particular area here has that you see on the right side a mid-century condominium tower that's pretty much in the original condition at the bottom you have these sort of very expressed concrete roof structures, double tees that go into the vertical here and at the bottom you have this sort of basalt rock plinth that we're preaching in a show where we're referenced at the top right and we have our buildings to the left so this is pretty much an ensemble that's pretty much intact from the 60s early 70s on Seaside Avenue in Waikiki. And next slide is we had that's been catching our eye before in a show about these sort of licking and sticking out one eyes, balcony is here, we found this rather intriguing way back and we still do. And the next slide is this is actually part of a sequence of an architect who has been underrated here who has left a significant impact on the island but different than Asipov and Price and Wimbledy because of reasons we're going to discover and continue to talk about and this one here seems to be the little sibling of the Kahala Hilton Hotel there because the lobby as you can see how it very organically kind of grows out the corner column of the building seems like the little sibling of the hotel and in fact it is. It is because it's the same architect. Exactly and the next slide here you pointed out that these were the explorative and booming areas. We did a show with Peter Shee up there who was doing what architects usually are not supposed to do to become developers, architect as a developer and he did this building up there at the same year that Edward Killingsworth with his team was doing this one and we pointed out that when today architects don't even do this anymore and when they do it they become victims of commercialization and shooting their own knees and wanting to make things nice while here these were cultivated days so that signature style of the sticking out bones of the flying trellises that is so typical for the Killingsworth was celebrated there regardless they were chipping in their own money and their services and next slide shows us this space from the inside basically the lobby it's comprised of these sort of slits of glass and then these slits of louvers and if we go to the next slide and we want to encourage the people to go out and scavenge a hunt and find out themselves and get close and we were intrigued and we were discovering that actually up there it's still open these louvers are basically metal and they're angled and 45 degree so the rain has been kept out while the wind can go through and only next slide the bottom part has been glazed and can obviously be opened as well so that way you want to you know don't confront the hotel guests with the direct wind I guess or rain right but the next slide here is also interesting because usually we don't like these machines because they're fossil AC machines but as you said you know one in these days were unfortunately things get hermiticized you pointed out in this case here that would have been a huge effort and the architect designed it in a easy breezy way absolutely and I was amazed to see that these three relatively small machines are basically able to support the natural trade with AC effectively so you don't need a lot correct and that this is this is a big lobby space it's a two-story lobby space it is to actually air-condition that whole thing yeah really expensive no absolutely and you see some little I mean everything so far look be pretty monochromatic but you see some very bright spot there at the very bottom on the floor and that gets us to the next slide and this is about the the recent sort of rebranding of the hotel right it was originally just plain and simply named after the street right seaside Avenue Avenue it was a seaside hotel and now which kind of puzzles us they made it into the shoreline and it's not on the shoreline does that make sense you know and and so and the interior designer basically went full blown pop 70s here with bright colors very stark and bold yeah and that's happening a lot in Waikiki now with rebranding of older hotels it is like this one from this time period making them hip yeah decorating the interiors and talking hip next slide here we had great contributors to this show who is the late partner with killingsworth run Lindgren and he had an informant mr. Mike Lawrence and they told us particularly about this picture here and and other things they were finding out that this wasn't commissioned by the hotel this is a hotel guest who happened to be there with her boyfriend who was on a dentist conference yeah and she basically offered this and they traded for her staying free there right yeah so this is but the point is here you see there is new furniture in there and then there is the wall painted with Hawaiian islands there but basically everything else the built environment is pretty much stayed the same the old aluminum mid-century sliding doors are the same everything is pretty much so it's just like refurnished as the refurbishment yes yes and the next slide we always do our biochlametic check here that's important for us so we urge you guys have your phones with you go to google maps go to satellite and then click the north era and you will see so this building here is basically facing with its angled position north south so each facade gets a little bit of everything and while the northeast and the north north east and southeast or not problematic the west sun is problematic here but the openings are so small yeah and these little lani louvers are doing a shading job so probably overall you don't have too much overheating and this is not a glass box as we see them nothing but that build up right this is a building that's pretty much in good balance of correct opening and correct right so next slide is another one from your archive and you have some interesting stories behind that there's a there's a map of the Hawaiian islands by United Airlines from the same time period that the building comes from and as I said earlier the flights to Hawaii were so important for united that the slogan they were using at the time was quote it's our little corner of the world meaning that's how important it is and that's how important we are to it yeah and today you could never get away with saying no what he belongs to us you know it's just discriminatory right yeah no no appropriation no appropriation we don't do that now very very interesting so I love these days because they were more naive and silly and not so concerned about all these things right they were more fun right yeah it's a really cool like that's actually sculptural that's actually paper yeah cut out in photograph it's very it's a three-dimensional model not just a flat illustration very lovely yeah and what applies to this sort of on the macro scale and we go to the next slide also applies to the micro scale because this is actually in the middle of the islands on the middle of the biggest water mass in the world the Pacific but here the building is in the middle of the accumulation of buildings and it's not on prime location shoreline as it likes to indicate right so then they basically had to somehow they thought they need to bring the water into the building and they did something that you were referring to another exotic correct so they put a swimming pool on the roof and in Havana Cuba in the 1950s when they had a building boom of hotels there were three hotels who were built there with pools on the roof because Havana does not have a beach it doesn't have an easy place to swim so it was in fact already a big urban city yeah it wasn't rum to put a pool on the roof so that's what they also did here too very cool next slide we got in the middle the iconic column the killingsworth column yeah and we're gonna talk about that later and they recognize that and putting this sort of hanger for the clothing in the middle of it and then clothing speaking at the top right that was the only picture we found googling of when United Airlines went crazy and went really with the signs of times of pop right over the pop bright right dark colors and otherwise also Ron created this term neon and nature so here's the neon part the aloha sign and neon and pink go to the next slide however the only picture from your archive I found that had pink is the one on the left right and it's not even really portraying the hippie 70s right it's pretty much the pre-contact the hula skirt and unlike the other airline to the right and that's just one of many yeah you told me this interesting story of another one where they go in fully zeitgeist you pop oh yeah yeah yeah bright airlines multiple different colors for the store this is to wear by the way they were called stewardesses in the time period that we're talking about there you go yeah and so they they nevertheless picked up on that pink next slide here and there's the shore line and some guests are inspired by that this is not what they have to wear this not the corporate outfit right but she happened to be harmonized with the interior yeah but as exotic escapism expert Suzanne up there at 20 years ago on on the kahala is saying that hotels just seem obligated you know to basically renew themselves rebrand themselves every so often every decade or so at least yeah well this is sort of interesting because the you know the the interior designers try to be respectful of the age of creation so they said this is 70s so make it really 70s but they didn't do their homework enough we find because at Killingsworth was very immune to Zeitgeist he actually stayed very classy as you said yeah over almost half of a century from the fifties to the early 2000s when they closed the office yeah yeah and he he and Ron told us this head stuck with a very classical layout yeah classical lines yeah classical symmetry exactly and and ill and going along with that next slide these are the pictures we found basically this is more the late 60s that sort of classy that more a subtle ride correct and the and the stewardess uniform is navy blue and white yeah and the pilots uniform is navy blue great yeah and they're not going with bright colors so the hotel originally yeah was in keeping with this corporate color combination exactly exactly and and with that a good fit because again this was basically then sold to United Airlines as to put their pilots and their stewardess is as you correct me not to say flight attendants because that's a sterile world we have to that's what we know yes stewardess is was way more sexy right oh yeah and so and next slide this is from our walking encyclopedia don hibbert who has you know done a lot of research about the killingsworth work and incorporated that into his famous book designing paradise up there and he captured this here just after remodeling in 2013 I believe when they were going more subtle they had this more of turquoise simple signage that just said shoreline and only recently they felt like they have to rebrand their rebranding which is very interesting so maybe next slide they want to reconsider that if they constantly rebrand themselves they rebranding maybe they want to go back and do some homework here along with us and you know along these lines where it's way more subtle it's way more elegant it's less poppy right but there's something really funny in this sort of fictional postcard down to the left that looks along our hood you living in the foothills of that's where you grew up and I live down there and we see our favorite building which is the alamona building all of a sudden being pulled down where the wikiki grand where I live so I'm wow this is this is kind of funky right and you see fostered tower and then obviously this is where actually a park shore is now on the corner right yeah so that's obviously a dream but actually that dream sort of came true next slide because almost a decade later after John Graham did the alamona building and the Laurent restaurant he was doing the equivalent which is now the sky of wikiki on Kala Kala Avenue so once again if you look the other direction you can actually see this sort of still composition of mid-century gems and goodies and next slide even on on Kohio which is our sort of you know second tier street yeah that's glitzy and fancy yeah yeah it's more gritty or at least it was it was getting more gentrified very much but this one is a good example because Starbucks actually in the world has only very few what they called Starbucks reserves and they're very special ones and they did it catered one to us in the middle of our jungle so this is pretty much just across the street it is it is around the corner so yeah speaking you can see it's very elegantly done with this sort of ribbon wood and there's some nature in there so there's where the green comes in so we have the neon and we have the nature and that gets us to the next slide here because again here we go that's the way United was again portraying it very sort of jungly very exotic very erotic yeah and you once again have a very fascinating background story about the artist behind right so the artist who did the map that you see there that's actually the inside of a ticket envelope for a ticket to come to Hawaii was Herb Connie. Herb Connie is now very famous as one of the originators of the Hokulea long-distance voyaging canoe but he was born and grew up in the Midwest before he moved back here and became very much more Hawaiian he was a commercial artist he worked for an ad agency in Chicago which is where United Airlines was located it still is and he was commissioned to do this depiction of the Hawaiian Islands before earlier in his career before he came back here and dealt into Hawaiian culture yeah there you got this connection of Chicago and Honolulu that's right that's right we're gonna find we're gonna talk about that and talking basically nature it gets us to the next slide because there's another signature element incorporated that is as iconic and I guess typical for the Killingsworth language is basically in corporate nature in an integrated way not it as an applied way by making these planters that are part of the architecture with a green grows out of it and you can see and I'm very happy that even kept I swear this is the original I think it looks like brushed aluminum which they did and the type the face type is very classy and and Ron told us to specifically that when the Kahala Hilton was built yeah the planter boxes with Boog and Villian were a part of the the whole concept right from the beginning exactly and and they continued this through which we will continue to super to watch in the next couple of shows so next slide here this is again this is our p-i-ing mobile Martin mobile cruising run around right making a pit stop and I have to say you know I'm I'm all marching that the top row is is our firm our family business right and and I can see as we were talking about I can see the similarities of the vertical lines yeah in some of the things that you've designed as well as very clearly in the Killingsworth yeah and this is what Ron calls structural expressionism yeah you don't decorate the building you make it's it's anatomy basically it's on the outside nature exactly and so it is you know carried on to next generations and when we look closer in next slide here this is again there's our friend Ron who tells us all these stories told us all these wonderful stories exactly and you know the car as we said before in the show that we did about the conversion of his Waikiki Park hotel into the Hala Puna which had just opened and we already said that you know the car the cars have always been vehicles for thought for us throughout the shows but this one here more particularly because it had been designed exactly during the same times in the late 60s and then they have basically produced this for two decades and not getting sidetracked of like well we got to reinvent ourselves we got a brewing out a new model which a the automotive industry seemed to seem to was I think they have to do now these days yes they were just sticking with it no matter what all the way through the postmodern 80s and and so for 20 years so that there's this sort of analogy or parallel between that sort of mobile and the old mobile of the killings with architecture and I heard I yet have to call up Ariyoshi the longest running governor because the locals who gave this car to me as a donation told me that it was his wife's car way back and again he was the governor during the mid 70s to the mid 80s so there we go and and you know now these cars as hopefully this architecture there are collectibles and they're like wow people on the street and they're not outdated they became vintage that's right right and so it is with the architecture and you better again stay away from too significantly altering them I mean you can do certain touch ups you know here and there but it's very rare that a car goes through a stage of never looking ugly yeah cars look up to date then they look ugly yeah then they come back to looking cool yeah this looked classic the whole time well and that is next picture certainly the same that's why we make the comparison with the killings worth work right never has anyone I mean you tell me you said that the Kahala Hilton or the apartments at the top left that we did a show about looks outdated or ugly right it was always appreciated for what it was yes century modern yes cool and classy yeah and then we want to point out to the couple of shows here at the top middle there is the column detailing of the condominiums which is basically a negative corner which we call the Meezy in corner he's on the road at that by the way in Chicago he built we got another connection by it campus and many things in Chicago actually the IBM building with a dark night movie played and we will get to that in a second yeah idea while in here they were doing something different they were basically doing a positive corner and we simply indenting the middle of the corner and thanks to again Ron Lindgren and his informant Mike Lawrence here we have the list Ron had took a look at the working drawings that that Mike pulled out and they found these being the partners in crime the collaborators on the collaborative you know chipping in their sweat equity right and there is the legendary Alfred he who's in the picture in the upper right with you thank you yeah I had the chance to see him one time and encourage me to keep on going right and just carrying on the legacy of all the killings worth and so next slide here is slowly but surely phasing out again where is this going I think it's going that we should all remember the good old days and you were digging out some plaques from a family history here right yeah right so in the upper left corner there's a plaque that my grandfather got to say that he was part of the comma Ina club in November 1954 for having taken ten United Airlines flights between the Hawaiian Airlines and the mainland and then in the lower right my great uncle was given a plaque probably in the 60s saying that he was a member of the hundred thousand mile club but it says he's a million miler I don't think he'd actually gone a million miles but this is just to you know say okay we you're good customers and we acknowledge you so we all have these memories and these legacy I used to travel a lot as one can see there that was when I was in the prairie in desert days I was traveling a lot I reached like platinum premier status that was then that was in my mouth but I'm still flying I'm going back this is my ticket there before purchase and I purchased that flight that is for relatively reasonable money to go half around the world and it's it's taking me on the way back I have to hurry a rush to LAX which is going to be hassled if I make it and I've done this before look at that it's 19 hours Honolulu Airport Munich half around the world and that's that's still pretty cool so United is still out there and the next slide we have heard that when you know you know Airlines sold it there was this these hardcore fans that were really disappointed about that but when they sold the building and you know watch out for these people we couldn't get a hold of them as of now but we keep trying and here we were in Hawaii and saw this next generation of Mercedes W123 that my parents used to have too and we're pointing that out a show ago here with my father and me with both huge hair and this color was intriguing me and I thought this looks like the like the you know look at behind the windshield there in the detail so it was right so concluding slide here we just want to make the connection of basically clients as basically ambassadors of building culture yeah and sort of United Airlines you know had actually moved back from the Burbs in Illinois to one of the most iconic buildings if not the most iconic building in Chicago built the same year as our hotel here is little and this is the Sears Tower in the middle there and Sears we don't have any more that became a victim of the recent one extension of Alamoana mall yeah but the architect of the of the Sears Tower which is unfortunately now Willie's Tower this is where you know airlines now move their headquarters back into which is like I think great so they recognize iconic mid-century or late mid-century architecture again is something and we have two S.O.M. buildings here on the islands in which are these we've got the middle one is the the middle one is the Alnakea Beach Hotel that's correct and that was mid 1960s 1965 and it opened just after the Seaside Slash Seasore Hotel Darlene Hotel and the other one is the School of Engineering built in 72 and my favorite project of S.O.M. is on the right which is a bank tower in Jetta so in the Arab desert where they basically were blending you know their American grandeur of designers with a local vernacular courtyard ish so I think this is great so we basically want to you know urge clients developers and all of that go back to the classy I don't think you know S.O.M. has to still find its roots again because they were going down the hill pretty badly in the postmodern era and killingsworth wasn't so with that if we can get the camera back to studio for the last couple seconds we have a little Lego tower here of the Sears Tower and that was the first I bought when Lego came out with the architectural series here and I want to take a chance to congratulate Joni back in Germany half around the world who is the Lego master and it's birthday now so happy birthday and you have something to tell him about encouraging to come over because you had a fantastic Lego exhibit at Bishop Museum and the local Lego club put together up some Hawaiian Legos the Hokule'eth canoe and Aloha Tower and our new upcoming trade absolutely so it can be done all over the world absolutely so thank you for having been with us see you next week we're gonna do we're so excited about killingsworth we do another one we do Harbor Square which is a residential development that's right from the same era right here in downtown Honolulu and until then please stay very elevated Lee exotic 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