 of renderings of different architectural potential plans that could have been built on the property. And this is part of a prospectus or a sort of a promotional brochure that my great-uncle had that he commissioned by Belt Collins and Associates, which was an engineering firm, published in 1958. And this presumably was intended to be given to potential serious buyers of the property. And as we have heard from our friend Ron Lindgren formerly also, sometimes do projects like this where they just drew speculative drawings of sites that were never going to be built just to make them more saleable or to attract buyers. And that's what this is. And it shows being built in the Hawaiian Islands at that time in the late 1950s. And this really looks like some of the hotels, small hotels in Waikiki, or even so, the Coco Palms Hotel, which was built at that time, including this very dramatic A-frame lobby. Yeah, and that's our other main hospitality king, Mr. Pete Wimbley, and you're referring to his sort of Polynesian top space. Oh, absolutely. Obviously. And it's interesting to see now how differently, yet also equally sensitively it has actually been accomplished to the next slide. And let's look at the gentleman that looks familiar to us. Well, that familiar-looking skinny man on the right is me in the early 1980s. And that's my brother, Alan. And in the background, although it's hard to see, the actual Honolani Hotel is under construction. And this is associated with development. My great-uncle, he was, again, as I said, the hotel under construction. Although you mostly can't see it. You can go to the next picture- Well, the next picture we can see more, yeah. Yeah, because in the next picture we can see, here's the entrance of the hotel. And he ended up working in Honolani after it opened because he was living on the big island. Here's the basic structure, although, of course, his uncle was invited to attend the other right, my brother on the left. And the lady is one of our cousins, sister-in-law, Rob here, the atri. Well, let's go to the next slide. And that actually illustrates that you guys could have met each other because this is the same event of the opening. And, Gary, you're on the very left. The fingers that was able to make these intricate little models. And you're talking and talking about that. And your wonderful wife Collette next to you and then also described to some of the other people that their function is the project. Yeah, they were sort of next to my wife would be Tokyo Land Company, Asakura and Usaki. And then the gentleman in the white jacket was Yoshio Tamaka, who was kind of the, he was the CEO at the Hawaiian region and the go-between, between the Tokyo company and the hotel development, the people that put the criteria together as far as number of rooms, all rooms, meeting space and so on. And then the Reverend Akaka, Nick Klotz and Patrick Bragg on the extreme right. Nick Klotz was also working with Yoshio Tamaka who was kind of instrumental in putting the hotel program together. So that's yeah, when it does the founding fathers. And this was a sort of special project for me because in 79, when I first started on the project and through several iterations to come up with the initial concept, Sherman Gordo, once we had the approval of the Hawaiian region, managers presentation with the, in Tokyo on December 23rd. So we planned our Christmas vacation in Tokyo and we carried a model of the concept and stayed almost true to identical to the model that was built back then. Anyway, early 14th, 1980, my wife and I were married and spent our hunting moon on the beach and we had built a tower and set up the wind machine at the views and then three years later, same date of the report beat. We had to develop it so it's always been a special place for us. And let's go to the next slide that gives us an overview and you were explaining to us that originally everyone was more, or you guys have been thinking about an all cottage concept, right? But then tell us why that changed and how it's now looking. Thank you, Chairman Gordo was very much in favor of the all cottage concept. The actual hotel operators who had been operating in the land region knew what the servicing costs for main servants and maintenance of having 350 rooms spread out on that site of how that would impact the economy to the project so they quickly got us in the direction of a more centralized building rather than... And we knew in order to do that we had to be in the six story realm. And then also we see the shape of the beach front portion of the hotel takes it safe from the existing beach. We also had a wind machine set up, arranged the different dining facilities where we had the best protection from the wind. So it was a process that happened through the design development or the layout. And again with respect to the site to integrate the beautiful fish ponds and the whole aspect of being at the special site bringing that into the hotel area. And if we go to the next slide here we see at the very bottom we see that iconic front end sort of being a ziggurat and basically wedged pyramid. At the very top left I threw in because J. Feidel charged me when we were talking about the project we were developing with his students which we called cargo, courtyard clustered which is basically a shipping container stacked naturally, forming as a pyramid. And he said it reminds me of the Kona Hilton and Kona Hilton is the one left of that and that's another Pete Wimbley project. So interesting would be great for another sort of table, panel discussion about these kind of synergies between you probably better save that for another show so that you can keep that in mind. If we go to the next slide Larry here and again to the left is our facility environment mandatory biochromatic check which we always do with every building and no surprise to us because just like the other appealing to a project they're very well balanced with the elements. If you look at the north area there's hardly any facade that really implies a sun and if it is the facade is basically shaped in a way that you can see at the very right picture and also everything is single loaded corridors so it's very easy breezy as we like to call it. The picture I have a little contribution to show too because the picture you see here I took when I was first experiencing a new building Larry that was soon after I arrived in Hawaii when our former dean had a advisory council meeting there in February 2013 and shame on me and please students don't do that what your professor did wrong I didn't do my homework I didn't familiarize myself who the architect was but I think in this case to the rule I wasn't biased I was able to actually fully experiencing without thinking about the ownership the authorship so here you can really see how you culture the facade using the sun as a co-designer so that's very impressive and the next slide is another picture I was taking off the lobby and the lobby just looked like again the facade of the lobby looked like the exterior facade of this area everything feels outside in and inside out very impressive so if we go to the next slide I remember from the literature Larry the original budget was like something 70 million and just recently a renovation has been completed that was budgeted for 100 million and we read and we read it ended up being $200 million and that's been completed and to the next slide for the next couple of slides they're from you Larry because you once again in your tradition you were there again for the reopening so please walk us through the pictures and share with us your impressions about how it has been remodeled in regards to the original so this is the view from the lobby looking out over the pool area and the nice thing that's happened is over the 30 years the landscaping had taken over and we lost a lot of the view to the ocean and so with this new pool area that openness has been brought back and I think that really something that overgrowing of the landscaping was lost and so it's very refreshing to have this view back and I think the only document that I mentioned we originally had a snack bar under that large beehive tree in the center and it kept the exchange in the manager because people always enjoy eating at the ocean side the the kitchen grew bigger the seating got to be bigger the more of a structure they had a total of facilities out there just got to walk a lot of the view so I think we're back to more of what was there originally okay let's go to the next slide and I'll turn towards the building and share with us your feelings about that big open dining Lanai Lanai was always there I think they maybe got a little heavy handed with the wool climbing because we didn't look as heavy with the white concrete post and beams so that it goes with the new wood suits and wood flooring they've added to the interior so they are kept some continuity I'm a little bit concerned about how well that will leather but we shall see on your problem to deal with Larry isn't somebody else's problem to deal with we should yeah and let's go to the next slide and thanks for shipping that in this photo because we have to say as you guys which always have the most respect that you guys for half a century trade stay true to your philosophy and through very sort of turbulent times of here we're talking the myth of post modernist you guys stay modern all the way through you guys work from the original partners and then through you guys so that's very impressive so and we see here and that's the entrance to share that you just showed us in the construction and here it still looks the same just a little bit and a little less heavy hand it touched up here with these three that's more touched lightly in this case I think the only thing we've lost there were moving the planter and the board on the beam that went through the workers there so again it's a maintenance item that we decided not to to continue with as in the interior of the atrium and third level were for planters with building vines coming down and a lot of that was required some maintenance that they just didn't feel was necessary yeah and that is actually a mention that because that's one of the very iconic feeling for signature elements is like the integrated planter of troughs that we always admire and we encourage all the clients to not be lazy and you know you guys designed it so and there's projects and not projects that we pointed out that they are still able to do it so we were encouraged to this hotel team especially when they spend so much money right they should be able to pull that extra mile really good point Larry let's go to the next slide with us a little bit of your impressions about the kind of processional you know towards the entrance of the hotel yeah I think the thing that was lost was the beautiful blue tile that we had to work for share all the way into the atrium to the base of the lobby but again it's a new a new approach to the inside and they were consistent with that team I think the bones still show too and things still still work we did have in the old design we did have some cori ponds and fish ponds on either side of the walkway to the entrance so it's been deleted so and let's revisit that in the second half of the show next time because these are things that were not mentioned there worth revisiting so let's go to the next slide which is actually a night impression of that so what you're saying it's very sort of blatant right it tries to show off it tries to your architecture was always very restrained and very humble very elegant and here they put some that we think and we will the next project you're going to show us is actually a project where you have very very cleverly perfectly done with the beautiful integrated aligning into the architecture but that's for later so let's go to the next slide and almost close on that one because we're almost out of time but this is a rendering here from the projection from when the project was still on the drafting board and in the marketing and so this is a computer rendering and next slide is pretty much the execution and share with us very quickly because we only have a minute left your emotions and feelings about what they made out of it you know I think a lot of the animation of the space was lost there where there could be a wide easier to see area where it was more animated with people and also again the fish farm so you can teach a lot of the fish in the hammerhead shark in the water but again it's a new a new look I guess so and let's contemplate more about that when we come back with a volume about Larry's tricker and his Mamalani hotel and until then thank you very much Larry for having been with us and introducing us thank you to Soto so you guys all stay safe and sound and say happy birthday from us Soto oh yes I will and until then please stay safe and sound and as tropical and tropical as rock