John Portman, the Atlanta architect and developer whose hotels introduced soaring atriums into the fabric of American life and helped revitalize downtowns around the nation, died Friday at 93.

As they proliferated in the United States, Portman’s atrium hotels, many built for Hyatt Corp., were widely imitated by other architects who sought to capitalize on the dizzying exhilaration ...

John C. Portman Jr., an architect whose hotel, shopping and office complexes tower over the major cities of the world, and whose cavernous atriums, replete with waterfalls, fountains, ivy and ...

"Farewell to John Portman, architect that sculpted many American city centers – and gave us atrium hotels," said Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at MoMA.

But for movie fans around the world, the late architect John Portman’s 52-story, 1,663-room atrium hotel is also known for its starring role in such movies as the Hunger Games series and the ...

The collapse of one of the skylights over an eight-story atrium at a Hunt Valley hotel last month was apparently caused by design and installation flaws, a hotel spokeswoman said Wednesday.