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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 …


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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 …


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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 …


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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, …


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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 …


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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 …


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