Project Details
- Project Name
- The American Restaurant
- Location
- MO
- Architect
- Warren Platner Associates
- Project Types
- Hospitality
- Year Completed
- 1974
- Shared by
- Hanley Wood Media
- Project Status
- Built
Located in Kansas City, Mo.'s Crown Center designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, the American Restaurant opened in 1974. "The restaurant’s design was conceived by renowned architect Warren Platner as a huge lace valentine, with white oak columns branching into a canopy of elongated hearts," the restaurant's website explains. "Three-story floor-to-ceiling windows offered a spectacular view of the Kansas City skyline." In 2018, the James Beard Foundation honored the restaurant with its Design Icon Award.
