Delta Hotels by Marriott Richmond Downtown, built as Crowne Plaza Hotel in 1986, is a knife-edged red high-rise squeezed between East Canal Street and a Downtown Expressway on-ramp. The building’s shape is dictated by the odd shape of the site. The striking ribbon-windowed design was described as “architecturally ingenious in how it squeezes a big building onto an impossibly slender site” by Richmond’s Style Weekly . . . in a feature titled “Richmond’s Most Hideous Buildings.” The criticism: The building blocks the view of the James River down 6th Street.
- Name: Delta Hotels by Marriott Richmond Downtown,
- Location: 555 East Canal Street
- Year Completed: 1986
- Architect: Rabun, Hatch, Portman, McWhorter, Hatch & Rauh
- Style: Postmodern
- Emporis: Delta Hotels Richmond Downtown
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Delta Hotels by Marriott Richmond Downtown, former Crowne Plaza Hotel.
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Delta Hotels by Marriott Richmond Downtown, former Crowne Plaza Hotel.
All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos taken October 2019 with Canon 5D Mark iv
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