The next splash that Jeff Kovel’s Skylab will make in Portland will not be a nightclub, restaurant or a commercial space. It will be a statement house in a quiet location…the architectural equivalent of a tree falling in the forest with no one there to hear (although we guarantee you will see it, if the coverage of earlier Kovel projects like the 1680 is any indication). What Skylab is calling the Metcalf spec house will be built on one of the last remaining undeveloped lots in Forest Park.
Live like this: at the delicious intersection of Modernism and engagement with site and the unconstructed world that is the hallmark of a Skylab house. Witness other Skylab projects clinging to impossible lots in the West Hills. Goosebumps.
Scheduled to break ground this fall, the Metcalf project is currently still in permitting. That does not preclude your phoning Laurie Holland of Windermere Realty today. Think of it like a waiting list for a Kelly bag. Except bigger.
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