image via Burnside Blog
Yes, please. This undulating beauty is the new Skylab-designed tower destined for 1300 W Burnside, according to Mike Thelin over at the Burnside Blog. This design is 27% more interesting, even, than the original tower that was to be much taller with condo/hotel/etceteras.
The static made dynamic, it is Bucky Fuller meets […]
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Talk Wright: Designs on Portland at DWR
Gordon House, Frank Lloyd Wright. photo via Portland Architecture, Brian Libby
This Wednesday night, Design Within Reach Portland (1200 NW Everett) hosts its fourth in the “Designs on Portland” series of discussions on architecture and design. This time around, Brian Libby talks to Larry Woodin of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy about the Gordon House, […]
PDXplore: Designing Portland
If you’re like we (1), you like it here in old Portland. We focus probably more on ultra than in real life, on the new, the shiny…how do we slot in our love of Laurelhurst Park or wide sidewalks and buskers into ultra? Not sure. But we’ve scanned an historic planning doc or two, read […]
The Root Awards: Call for Entries
Portland Spaces’ Root Awards will honor work by Portland architects, builders, interior designers, landscape designers, craftspeople in an ambitious, exhaustive, exhausting list of categories. Considering this is Year One for what amounts to All Portland Design All-Stars awards, it’s verging on crazy to include this many categories, a gigantic undertaking. Good news is that it […]
Getting Results
Flash installations. Visual interventions. Conversations with Portland spaces. Artist Justin Gorman’s recent photo series began with a bang, a 60-year-old echo: the words “BangBang” in red Helvetica letters painted on a wall slated for demolition. More than photos, Gorman creates records of temporary installations of phrases speaking to place.
Gorman’s first piece in the series […]
Tonight: Cloepfil at Bright Lights
One of Portland’s most interesting architects has been doing loads of work elsewhere…including New York’s Museum of Arts and Design, the Seattle Art Museum expansion, and the Clyfford Still Museum, but for those of us in Portland who don’t work in the Wieden + Kennedy building he designed, the closest we’ve been to his work lately was a beautiful show of his process drawings at PDX Contemporary Art.
Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn*
Or rather the soon-to-be Hotel Modera and one-time Portland Inn/Day’s Inn circa 1962 at SW Clay and 5th. Anticipate the renovation of this central hotel that promises the kind of distinctive design polish you see at few Portland hotels. Because of the steady hand of interior design firm CorsoStaicoff (Hotel Murano, Hotel Max) and Holst […]
Designs on Portland at DWR
11th Avenue orange and grey panels photo via: Portland Ground: Pictures of Portland Oregon
Let’s talk. There are few things ultra likes better than considering design (and/or culture) in conversation. So it is that we welcome the launch of Design Within Reach Portland’s bi-monthly architecture and design lecture/conversation series, “Designs on Portland” wherein they […]
