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Humble landmarks in North, Northeast await wrecking ball or champion

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Portland Architecture 2013-02-13 21:48:23
St. Paul/Gesthemane church (photo by Brian Libby) BY BRIAN LIBBY To move west on Failing Street from Northeast Portland across Martin Luther King Boulevard and Williams Avenue into North Portland's Mississippi district is to witness the changing demographics and architecture here. And chances are the view will keep changing. My first of two destinations was a church at 801 NE Failing, built in 1905 …

The architect's questionnaire: Darin Dougherty

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Portland Architecture 2013-02-07 21:04:24
Darin Dougherty (photo courtesy of the architect) BY LUKE AREHART Leading off the Architect?s Questionnaire series for 2013 is Portland architect and retail design/experience expert Darin Dougherty. After honing his skills at a host of prestigious architecture firms including TVA Architects, Architropolis and Gensler, Darin founded Seed Architecture Studio, where he designed notable residences like the Twigg House, which was included in the …

Derailed ambition: McKim Mead & White's unbuilt 1881 Grand Union Depot

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Portland Architecture 2013-02-04 17:30:04
Proposed Grand Union Depot (image courtesy�The West Shore, April 1882) BY ALEXANDER CRAGHEAD Portland is blessed by the preservation and continued existence of many notable historic structures, not the least of which is its beautiful Union Station. Being the�city's first modern unified transportation terminal, the 1896 structure, designed by Kansas City architect Henry Van Brunt, was in some ways the forerunner of today's Portland International Airport.�Union Station is …

After 10 years, Albina Fuel site makes way for Grant Park Village

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Portland Architecture 2013-01-30 16:53:07
Rendering of Grant Park Village from west (courtesy LRS/Runberg) By FRED LEESON No five-acre tract in Portland likely has undergone more development scrutiny, planning and neighborhood tooth-gnashing than the former site of Albina Fuel Co. at NE Broadway and 33rd Avenue, hard against the I-84 freeway. After more than 10 years, dozens of public meetings and countless pixels devoted to potential designs, dare we …

Design Museum Boston founders reach out to Portland for inspiration, possible expansion

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Portland Architecture 2013-01-27 23:01:52
Design Museum Boston's Derek Cascio and Sam Aquillano (photo by Brian Libby) BY BRIAN LIBBY This Monday evening, the monthly Bright Lights discussion series from Portland Monthly and the City Club welcomes two Boston designers who, although they look young enough to be matriculating at one of the area's scores of universities but instead have transformed how people think about design. Design Museum Boston …

Modish modular: visiting Skylab's HOMB

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Portland Architecture 2013-01-23 01:31:58
A cantilevered HOMB upstairs bedroom (photo by Brian Libby) BY BRIAN LIBBY Over the past decade, numerous architecture firms around the country have introduced prefabricated home designs intended to streamline the high cost of building without sacrificing quality. Publications like Dwell magazine regularly tout such designs, but most of the time these projects are one-offs or only produce a handful additional constructions. Meanwhile, …

Ada Louise Huxtable?s Portland

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Portland Architecture 2013-01-15 18:04:33
Ada Louise Huxtable (photo by Garth Huxtable) BY DAN HANECKOW Ada Loise Huxtable, the Pulitzer Prize-winning�New York Times and Wall Street Journal architectural critic as well as a celebrated author and preservationist, died on January 7 at the age of 91. Although New York City was the primary arena for this greatest of American architecture writers, Huxtable often traveled to other cities around the world, including …

Take me to the river: ZGF's Sandoval & Leinhart on Zidell Yards

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Portland Architecture 2013-01-11 23:39:33
Zidell Yards (rendering courtesy ZGF) BY BRIAN LIBBY Last Friday in Atlantic Cities, I wrote about the Zidell Yards development and its master plan by ZGF Architects. "Despite its size, Zidell Yards seeks to be a macro development comprised of many different micro-sized parts," the story went, "an urban space of tranquil greenery, or a park disguised as a vibrant city." As a follow-up, …

Imagining a Central Eastside rail trail

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Portland Architecture 2013-01-08 21:52:40
Central Eastside railway (photo by Brian Libby) BY BRIAN LIBBY In Tuesday's�New York Times, Lisa Foderado reports on an initiative underway in the Queens borough of New York City to replicate the success of Manhattan's High Line park with one of its own. "It has been abandoned for five decades, a railway relic that once served Queens passengers on the old Rockaway Beach branch …

Dinner hour at the restored Ladd Carriage House

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Portland Architecture 2013-01-04 21:39:08
Ladd Carriage House (photo by Brian Libby) BY FRED LEESON One of downtown Portland?s oldest and most charming buildings enters a new era this month after a twisting saga of architectural preservation that needed California entrepreneurs to complete. The 130-year old Ladd Carriage House, one of downtown?s few remaining wooden buildings, opens soon as the Raven & Rose restaurant and pub. If the new …

2012: looking back and ahead

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Portland Architecture 2012-12-31 23:45:50
Vestas headquarters (photo by Brian Libby) BY BRIAN LIBBY For more than four years now, the economy and architects' role in it has seemed to be partially recovered from the lowest depths of 2007 and 2008's catastrophes, yet unable to reach anything close to full throttle. Indicators such as the American Institute of Architects' Architecture Billing Index show a succession of peaks and valleys, …

Hits and misses eradicating local homelessness

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Portland Architecture 2012-12-11 21:57:10
Right 2 Dream Too homeless camp (photo by Israel Bayer for�Street Roots) BY BRIAN LIBBY Today's Oregonian includes two stories about the struggle against homelessness that together say a lot about the up-and-down nature of the problem and how we approach it. First, there was a Mike Francis interview with the Secretary of the Department of�Veterans Affairs, Eric Shinseki, in which the secretary�says the …

"It can bring us economic impact multiple times the renovation" - notes from City Council's Coliseum hearing

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Portland Architecture 2012-12-10 21:05:54
Memorial Coliseum (photo by Brian Libby)� BY BRIAN LIBBY Imagine if Portland hosted the nation's biggest regular-season college basketball tournament, one featuring the top programs in America. Imagine the return of the US Figure Skating Championships, or the Dew Sports tour, or Davis Cup tennis. These are the very real bookings for Memorial Coliseum, and can generate enough economic activity to more than …

Thirty years later: a conversation with Michael Graves about the Portland Building

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Portland Architecture 2012-12-05 00:08:40
Portland Building (photo by Brian Libby) BY LUKE AREHART World renowned American architect and Michael Graves has been practicing architecture since 1964 and has completed nearly 200 built examples of his craft to date, spanning many countries on four continents. Originally celebrated as one of the New York Five in the early 1970s (along with legends like Richard Meier and Peter Eisenman), Graves later became known not …

HPLO seeks seismic safeguards for thousands of historic brick buildings

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Portland Architecture 2012-11-30 17:12:37
Gilbert Building, downtown Portland (photo by Brian Libby) BY FRED LEESON Architects and builders gave no thought to earthquakes in the nineteenth and much of the 20th centuries when they built literally thousands of brick buildings across Oregon.� Now that scientists have learned about tectonic plates under the Pacific Ocean and the likelihood of major earthquakes affecting heavily populated areas of Oregon, those unreinforced …

City Council to vote on Memorial Coliseum restoration Thursday

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Portland Architecture 2012-11-26 17:57:02
Memorial Coliseum (photo by Julius Schulman, from Modernism Rediscovered) BY BRIAN LIBBY It's a vote that has been more than three years in the making, but will demonstrate our city's values for generations to come. This Thursday, City Council will vote on the proposed $31 million deal to restore Memorial Coliseum, the one-of-a-kind arena at the heart of a transforming Rose Quarter district. The …

A transplanted designer's Rose City thank-you

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Portland Architecture 2012-11-20 17:50:45
Portland Outdoor Store sign (photo by Brian Libby) BY LUKE AREHART Before I found my opportunity and decided to move to Portland, all of my sunny Southern California pals warned about the soggy and dreary Northwest that grays out eight months of the year. I moved to Portland in the month October at the start of what was to be the gray-mageddon that I had heard about; …

The shame of Portland's West Hayden Island land grab

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Portland Architecture 2012-11-16 17:14:19
Map of West Hayden Island (courtesy Port of Portland) BY BRIAN LIBBY It's a plan the mayor's own handpicked experts have expressed reservations about. It's on an accelerated pace designed to suppress dissent and give the mayor an accomplishment to check off before leaving office. It's a case of the haves taking from the have-nots that shows Portland may not be as different …

The Ocean: five tiny restaurants and an epiphany

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Portland Architecture 2012-11-16 00:37:28
The Ocean on NE Glisan (photo by Brian Libby) BY BRIAN LIBBY Kevin Cavenaugh, the architect-trained developer who has spent much of the last decade embodying smart do-it-yourself place making in Portland, said something to me yesterday I've scarcely heard from any architect. "I know as an architect I'm good but not great," he confessed as we stood outside The Ocean, a long-empty former …

Compatible but not caricature: Landmarks Commission approves Goose Hollow row houses infil

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Portland Architecture 2012-11-12 17:44:33
Rendering courtesy Argo Architect BY FRED LEESON The design solution would not be easy. For starters, the site at 2004-2010 SW Madison Street slopes downhill in two directions. It also sits in a corner of Portland?s Kings Hill Historic District, meaning that the design would have to be compatible with, but not a replica of, older buildings in the district, mostly erected between …

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