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This Week in Portland Design
Monday
A proposed six-story building on NW 19th Avenue and Glisan Street will be the first order of business today for the Historic Landmarks Commission (1900 SW 4th Ave., 1:30 PM). The mixed-use apartment building designed by Portland’s Sera Architects will front Couch Park. Landmarks will also hammer out proposed FAR transfers in the North Pearl District, proposed changes to Waterfront Park, including a covered shelter for Portland Saturday Market, a new plaza with water features, restrooms and eventually a new dock. Changes and improvements to the area surrounding the Skidmore Fountain MAX station will also be hammered out. Landmarks will also address for the second time a proposed quarter-block demolition of a four-story section of the Honeyman Hardware Lofts, which would be replaced by a nine-story apartment tower.
Wednesday
The PDC Board of Commissioners (222 NW 5th Ave., 8AM) meets today. The PDC will be briefed on the long-delayed Burnside Bridgehead project, a proposed multi-block redevelopment envisioned to be a catalyst project for Portland’s industrial Eastside, but one that has yet to break ground nearly three years after the PDC chose Minneapolis-based developer OPUS to spearhead the project. The Board may also designate a location for the a homeless access center proposed for Old Town. Read more about that project here.
Join Portland Spaces editor-in-chief Randy Gragg and friends at Rejuvenation Hardware (1100 SE Grand Ave., 6 PM) for the lecture “Houses That Make History.” To RSVP call 222-5122 ex. 164.
Friday
Jacques Rancière has been called one of the world’s leading intellectuals, he’s a professor emeritus at the University of Paris, his insights have been the subject of an entire issue of the magazine Art Forum, he’s written more than 20 books, and you can see him speak tonight thanks to the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s newly unveiled FIVE Idea Studios lecture series. Celebrate the leap year. Click here for more info.
