Portland Design News

We’ve noticed this house popping up on sites all around the city, from Division to Alberta, much to our chagrin. In an homage to our favorite blog, McMansion Hell, let’s take a look a this ugly Frankenstein hot mess of a building. read more

The adaptive reuse of the historic Multnomah County Courthouse into ground-floor retail with office above will include a seismic upgrade, the re-introduction of pedestrian entry on SW 5th, a new accessible entry on SW Main and new window ... read more

Next week, the Plan Design Xplore team will be traveling to the UK and Denmark to meet architects and planners and to seek out the best examples of human-scaled, historically contextual urbanism. Tell us what you want to see! ... read more

A master plan for the redevelopment of the former Post Office site in the Pearl District has been presented to the Design Commission. Known as the Broadway Corridor, the full build-out the site will include approximately 4 million square feet of new commercial, employment, and residential development. The concepts by ... read more

Pietro Belluschi, 1958 (LIFE Magazine)   BY BRIAN LIBBY Pietro Belluschi’s Modernism in Portland (With Special Guest Tour Guides)Perhaps no other architect had a greater impact on Portland in the 20th century than Pietro Belluschi, whose early projects, like 1931's Portland Art Museum and the world-renowned Equitable Building from 1948 ... read more

Prosper Portland is moving forward with a second phase of development in Lents Tower Center.The Oregonian reported that the developers of the Block 216 tower are betting on achieving record prices, with $1,350 to $1,900 per square ... read more

Design Advice has been requested by ZGF Architects for the Portland Proper Hotel at NW 13th & Irving.Every week, the Bureau of Development Services publishes lists of Early Assistance applications, Land Use Reviews and Building Permits processed in the previous ... read more

What if we could preserve what we love in Portland’s classic neighborhoods while creating opportunity for tens of thousands of new households in the coming decades? What if historic preservation and affordability advocates could find themselves on the same side, on the same team? Let’s imagine a future where neighborhoods ... read more

Design Advice has been offered for the Dairy Apartments, a development proposed on the site of the former Sunshine Dairy in Kerns. The 7-story building is being designed by Hacker Architects for developer NBP Capital. 274 residential units are proposed, with the potential for a small amount of ground floor ... read more

A proposed 23 story tower in the Pearl District has gone in front of the Design Commission for its first Design Review hearing. The project is being developed by Vibrant Cities in partnership with the Sunray Group, with design by Otak. The lower 11 floors of the 249′ tall building would be occupied by ... read more

Angela Danadjieva at last week's Halprin Sequence rededication (Brian Libby)   BY BRIAN LIBBY Last Thursday was an event known as the Big Splash, celebrating the completion of restoration work for the Portland Open Space Sequence, comprised of four works by the great landscape architect Lawrence Halprin's firm: the Source ... read more

The Meyer Memorial Trust Headquarters is being designed to achieve ... read more

Photo: Oregonlive.com Last winter we started hearing things about a plan to move Union Pacific’s Albina Yard from its location on the bank of the Willammette below the Overlook neighborhood and redevelop the property for urban uses. Last month, we finally ... read more

Old Church Concert Hall (The Old Church) BY BRIAN LIBBY   Tour of Carbon12When it was completed last year, Carbon12, designed by PATH Architecture and developed by its sister company, Kaiser Group, was the tallest building in the United States to be framed with cross-laminated timber. First used in Europe, ... read more

Design Advice has been offered for the Portland Housing Bureau‘s affordable housing development at 3000 SE Powell Blvd. The five story building will include 180 units, with a mix of studios, 1-, 2-, and 3-bedroom apartments. 22 vehicular parking spaces are proposed. The project is being designed by Holst Architecture, ... read more