Category | Architecture

March 12-14: Ecoroof 2010 and Zombotica

Posted on 11 March 2010

It’s a nice weekend for zombies, robots, and rooftop gardens.

March 12, 13: Ecoroof Portland 2010

Posted on 06 March 2010

Do you have a roof?

A Rose Quarter Roller Coaster?

Posted on 06 January 2010

One proposal for the Rose Quarter is to transform it into Memorial Park, with some boring parts and one very interesting part.

Explore the Past at Vintage Portland

Posted on 20 December 2009

If you’re interested in Portland’s history, and fond of vintage photos, the blogs Cafe Unknown and Lost Oregon are probably already familiar to you. You’ve probably also perused the fantastic archive of post cards and ephemera at PdxHistory.com. But you may not yet be aware of another photo-rich Portland history blog, the nascent Vintage Portland: Exploring Portland’s Past.

December 29: Charles Phoenix Retro Holiday Slide Show

Posted on 10 December 2009

Charles Phoenix is bringing his Retro Holiday Slide Show to Portland once again this year.

Burning down the house in North Portland

Posted on 21 October 2009

Portland Fire Department firefighters intentionally burnt down a house today in North Portland as part of a training exercise.

Ladd Tower Time-lapse

Posted on 19 April 2009

The best part starts at about 1:45.
Bruce Ely of the Oregonian photographed the building site ever day for two years to piece this together.

A Portland Ghost tower – or should that be a Boise Hole?

Posted on 10 April 2009

Tom Moyer is halting construction on the putative 32 story tower, Park Avenue West (at this stage it’s just a really big hole in the ground).
Moyer announced today that construction will stop for nine months, a troubling sign of just how far the economy and the financial markets have fallen. Law firm Stoel Rives had [...]

The Portland Building’s rooftop

Posted on 06 April 2009

The eclectic shu and joe blog gives us a glimpse of how the Portland Building might have been quite different.
The original plan included much more dramatic decorative garlands along the sides of the building and a collection of public arcades and shops on the rooftop.

The Ainsworth Age at Cafe Unknown

Posted on 16 March 2009

Dan Hackenow has a great post up on Cafe Unknown about 19th century Portland Banker John C. Ainsworth, the bank he founded, and the beautiful Victorian gem he built, that, in the 1950s, was deemed less important (i.e. lucrative) than a parking lot.

For fifty-nine years, the northwest corner of Third and Oak has been the [...]

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