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The IBM Building is an office building in Honolulu located at 1240 Ala Moana Boulevard. Designed by Vladimir Ossipoff, the building opened in 1962 as the Honolulu headquarters for IBM. It is presently owned by Howard Hughes Corporation, serving as a sales center for their surrounding Ward Village development. Construction of the IBM Building cost $1,500,000 (equivalent to $12,678,218 in 2019). The building was dedicated on October 10, 1962, in a ceremony attended by officials including then-Governor of Hawaii William F. Quinn. The roughly cube-shaped structure is distinguished by the honeycomb structure of its concrete brise soleil, inspired by Polynesian culture and also intended to resemble the punched cards used in the computer industry at the time of its construction. The building was slated for demolition by then-owner GGP Inc. as part of a 2008 redevelopment plan, but public backlash led to its preservation after the planned development area was purchased by Howard Hughes Corporation, which expressed an intent to maintain the IBM Building's name and general appearance. The development company instead renovated the building to use as an information and sales center for their surrounding Ward Village development.
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