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The recent threat of demolition to Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon, one of the city's most visible architectural landmarks, galvanized local architects and historic preservation advocates. But the city's record on historic preservation, in terms of both involvement and actually preserving buildings, is spotty.
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MEMORIAL COLISEUM - PORTLAND, OREGON The perimeter of Memorial Coliseum bounds the equivalent area of four city blocks in Portland, Oregon, yet the entire envelope of the building, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, stands on just four columns.
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Visiting Fuller's house today requires a $14 ticket. In a landscape packed with planes, trains, and vehicles of all kinds, the sparkling body of the Dymaxion House makes a striking appearance.
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Gregory Ain's small houses of the 1930s were completed in a historical context in which the "small house" emerged as a typology of primary importance to architects.
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More Building Culture Living in a Time Capsule — Providence Journal, 2009.0801Economists Predict Home Building Will Recover in 2010 — Builder, 2009.0730 U.K. House Prices Increased in July, Nationwide Says — Bloomberg, 2009.0730 A Dispute 'Made in Oregon' — Register-Guard, 2009.0730 What Building Sits under San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge? — Examiner, 2009.0730 Preservation in Portland — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0729 U.S. Banks Homebuilding Losses to Taper in Six Months: S&P — Reuters, 2009.0729 Portland's Green Housing Vision — Sightline Daily, 2009.0729 Philadelphia’S ‘Ethical’ Architecture — Thought Leader, 2009.0729 Lennar's Rating Cut to "Hold" at Citi — Market Watch, 2009.0728 Biggest-Ever Bauhaus Exhibition in Berlin — New York Times, 2009.0727 HCA Praises House Building Industry's Response to Kickstart Programme — 24Dash, 2009.0727 Shares of Home-Building Cos Spike on US New-Home Sales Data — CNN, 2009.0727 Japanese Architect on Brink of Stardom — San Francisco Chronicle, 2009.0725 Atlantic Yards Meeting Erupts — New York Times, 2009.0723 Dorm Reform: An Inconvenient Youth — Mother Nature Network, 2009.0723 Construction Destroying Old Moscow — Moscow Times, 2009.0723 Fifty Years of the Four Seasons — Metropolis, 2009.0722 Life after Sambo — Metropolis, 2009.0722 Vacant Structure Ordinance Passes in Wheeling, West Virginia — Wheeling News-Register, 2009.0722 The Future of Buying a Home: Energy Savings — Metro News Toronto, 2009.0721 Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture — Financial Times, 2009.0720 Modernist Architecture Can't Be Ignored — Deseret News, 2009.0719 Outlook for LV Housing Grim — Las Vegas Review Journal, 2009.0719 Builder JEAN ANN MELKIN Dies at 85 — Washington Post, 2009.0719 Why We Have to Protect Our Modern Buildings — Wales Online, 2009.0718 Even Though You're Smitten with the House, Take the 'Real Estate Prenup' Seriously — Washington Post, 2009.0717 Peeling Back Pavement to Expose Watery Havens — New York Times, 2009.0717 Peeling Back Pavement to Expose Watery Havens — New York Times, 2009.0717
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