The Condado Plaza in San Juan, Puerto Rico, designed in 1960 by Morris Lapidus as the Hotel Ponce de León, was built as the last of the major hotel projects on San Juan’s “golden strip.” While Lapidus is well known today as a pioneer of “experiential architecture,” the Ponce de León was one of his most sober endeavors. Ironically, it took a set of new ambassadors of “architecture-as-experience” to make it really shine.
The building sits on a privileged site, a small headland at the northwesternmost part of the Condado district, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the north, the Condado Lagoon to the south, and views of the landmark Caribe Hilton Hotel and 17th-century Fort San Gerónimo to the west.
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