Hyatt Terraces Baguio Hotel
16°24′26″N 120°36′29″E / 16.40722°N 120.60806°E
Hyatt Terraces Baguio | |
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Former names | Terraces Plaza |
Hotel chain | Hyatt Hotels Corporation |
General information | |
Status | Destroyed |
Location | Philippines |
Destroyed | July 16, 1990 |
Height | 44.51 m (146.0 ft) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 12 |
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The Hyatt Terraces Baguio was a 12-storey hotel in Baguio, Philippines. It sustained the most serious damage compared to other buildings in Baguio following the 1990 Luzon earthquake, when the hotel's terraced front wing collapsed and fell into the lobby area killing at least 50 people.[2][3]
History
General Manager Heinrich Maulbecker of Hyatt Bangkok was tasked in 1978 to check on a property in Baguio called Baguio Terraces to study the viability of converting the hotel property into a Hyatt brand. Baguio Terraces was later rebranded as Hyatt Terraces Hotel and Maulbecker became the general manager of the Baguio hotel until the destruction of the hotel in 1990.[4]
References
- ^ Hyatt Terraces Baguio Hotel at Emporis
- ^ "Quake relief efforts hampered". The Hour. 17 July 1990. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ^ "The 1990 Baguio City Earthquake". The City of Baguio.
- ^ Alcuaz, Vic. "Mabuhay Ka! - Hotelier Heinrich Maulbecker is a 'builder" (PDF). Vic Alcuaz.