Architecture Photos of First Hawaiian Center Honolulu
First Hawaiian Center Honolulu
Oahu’s Tallest Skyscraper
“Formally powerful and elegantly assured, First Hawaiian Center interprets the Islands within the context of Kohn Pedersen Fox’s architectural vocabulary. The thirty-story building, the tallest in Hawaii at 438 feet, follows William Pedersen’s penchant to compose elements in unorthodox relationships which visually fragment a high-rise’s mass. In this building, two interlocking triangles were employed, with a predominantly beige Clandore limestone mauka elevation and a blue glass makai side. Like other Kohn Pedersen Fox compositions, the building’s ground level aims for a pedestrian-friendly relationship with the street…” – Society of Architectural Historians