Mr Pritzker decided that the atrium design was so distinctive that it would make the hotel the most famous in Atlanta, a town that attracts numerous conventions.

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Realised by Italian architect and designer Matteo Thun, SIDE Hotel is built around a prism-shaped central atrium.

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The hotel, all brown marble and glass with a few sad ferns in the atrium, seems an unlikely base for a terrorist cell, and the supposed terrorists were an unlikely bunch.

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On Christmas morning, at least two rocket-propelled grenades hit the Sheraton Ishtar Hotel, showering broken glass and debris throughout the lobby and causing some damage to the building's atrium.

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