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Updated at 12:33 p.m., Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Mauna Kea Beach Hotel one of U.S.' favorite structures

Advertiser Staff

To celebrate its 150th anniversary, The American Institute of Architects (AIA) held a poll to find out America's favorite architecture, and the Big Island's Mauna Kea Beach Hotel came in 55th.

Designed by the New York firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the resort, which opened in 1965, won an AIA Honor Award in 1967. It's currently closed because of damage sustained during October's earthquakes.

The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel is in good company, joining such architecture icons as New York's Empire State Building (No. 1) and Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin (30) in Spring Green, Wisc., and other hotels like Miami's Delano Hotel (39) and Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego (18).

For the complete list, go to www.aia150.org.