Despite protests from preservationists, the lobby of Philip Johnson and John Burgee's 1984 AT&T Building will be demolished: https://t.co/IZJnDIiu1V
Ignoring Housing Bureau guidelines, mayor @tedwheeler wants to use public $ to invest in expensive affordable housing that uses cross-laminated timber. One 2-br unit will cost $567K to build.
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For most of us, the term “concrete furniture” evokes images of hefty park benches or blocky tables. But Portland industrial designer @nealaronowitz has worked design alchemy, transforming a typically heavy, rigid material into something light, lyrical, a… https://t.co/xPk70SJFkv
This is an important topic with huge ramifications - both economic and social - for Portland families dealing w/"outside-the-box" children https://t.co/MKrDtAcjPz
Vincent Scully spent more than six decades lecturing and writing about the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn, while championing efforts for historic preservation and warning against urban redevelopment. He died on Nov. 30 at 97 years old. https://t.co/CVYwetOa3q
We need this in #Portland - let's start a #kickstarter and fund one! Good design is about clean air and water, not a Louis Vuitton bag, says Daan Roosegaarde https://t.co/lWC6IGb69x via @dezeen
Original design of @timberlinelodge based on the native american cone shaped tent #tipi - perhaps first example of conceptual #architecture in N. America
The increasing separation of architects from building/construction know-how will eventually transform arch, and not for the better: https://t.co/k1w5XgxVX3