How fortuitous that J’s recent business trip to Austin, TX allowed me to tag along visit the Blanton Art Museum which was of interest to me for both the architecture and art!

Architecture Field Trip - Century City

It’s very easy to turn a staycation into a mini-architecture field trip! This one was designed around a stay at the Century Plaza Hotel designed by Minoru Yamasaki. There were many other noteworthy architectural buildings near the hotel including the iconic Century Towers, also by Yamasaki.

Travel - A Trio of Buildings in Downtown Honolulu

Downtown Honolulu is architecture rich with a diversity of styles. We managed to capture a fine historic building and two Brutalist buildings in our short walk to our Uber ride.

brutalist architecture, cruise, hawaii, architectureCarol ChinFebruary 24, 2025historic architecture, brutalist architecture, hawaii, honoluluComment

Travel - A Trio of Mid-Century Buildings on Kauai

It’s great to have a few architecture places to visit bookmarked so that I can pull them out when J. asks “Where to?” On Kauai, I wanted to visit two places and lucky for us, they were located right across the street from each other in Lihue.

At the end of this post - a bonus beach park find.

architecture, travel, hawaii, cruise, mid-centuryCarol ChinFebruary 19, 2025hawaii, mid-century, architecture, alfred preisComment

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