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Oregon Department of Brand Management

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Posted By Tim DuRoche on 11/28/2008

Bah, Humbug: U of O plans to change the forever iconic “Made in Oregon” sign atop White Stag to read “University of Oregon.”

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Homebuilding Horizons

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Posted By Tim DuRoche on 11/24/2008

Tea-leaf-reading conjectures on the homebuilding industry, via the sages at Urban Land Institute

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America's Next Top Model (for the New Urbanism)

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Posted By Tim DuRoche on 11/23/2008

The Congress for the New Urbanism wants to make you and your head-turning, sustainable urban complexity America’s Top Model. Or something just as sexy.

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Out here in the Fields

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Posted By Tim DuRoche on 11/22/2008

Hoyt Street’s Encore debuts in the Pearl, a Park begins to see the light, but what about Centennial Mills?

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Re-find the ReFind

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Posted By Brian Costello on 11/18/2008

The new storefront for ReFind at The ReBuilding Center shows just what an organization can do with some innovation and excellent recycled building materials.

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Jetpacks and Dreams

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Posted By Brian Costello on 11/18/2008

A conversation with ZIBA’s Sohrab Vossoughi, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson, architecture critic Brian Libby, and Portland Spaces and Portland Center Stage’s own Tim DuRoche all via jetpack. For FREE. Tomorrow night!

(Note: Jetpack availability pending.)

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14 Parcels, part deux (it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas)

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Posted By Tim DuRoche on 11/17/2008

Visions of the parcels accumulating under for 14 Parcels

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Mayor Sam's Modest Proposal

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Posted By Randy Gragg on 11/16/2008

Mr. Adams goes to Gateway

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The architecture is Bond. James Bond.

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Posted By Brian Costello on 11/14/2008

James Bond’s Quantum of Solace opened today and I am filled with a need to walk through the waterfalls at Lawrence Halprin’s Keller Fountain and see if I can find M’s MI6 HQ. Maybe S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is hiding in the geomtric orthagonal halls of the Wieden + Kennedy Building? Or perhaps Bond is renting a flat in Skylab’s offices?

Want to know more about Bond architecture—both real and imagined? Read on . . .

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Pass the Parcels: Kevin Cavenaugh

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Posted By Tim DuRoche on 11/14/2008

14 Parcels, Kevin Cavenaugh’s daring high-density housing project, is upon us

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The Buck doesn't stop here . . .

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Posted By Brian Costello on 11/11/2008

. . . It just keeps going! Portland Center Stage’s R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe continues with some excellent panels now posted online.

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Landmark Cases and Decisions

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Posted By Tim DuRoche on 11/11/2008

Three vital pieces of regional design identity, from three periods of Portland-past, get the once-over this week

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The Political Memory of Architecture

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Posted By Brian Costello on 11/07/2008

Does the choice of an election night party location play a part in a cause’s success of failure? Does it say something about the cause’s beliefs? Or is it just someplace you’ll look back with fond memories or broken dreams? Election night celebration locations and their narrative memories after the jump . . .

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The QT on the PDC's OTCT Projects

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Posted By Tim DuRoche on 11/06/2008

The Portland Development Commission presents its roster of project in Portland’s Old Town/Chinatown to the China Business Network

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Wanted: Crystal Ball

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Posted By Tim DuRoche on 11/06/2008

Two projects are coming up for a Design Review today. . .neither is likely to actually get underway or built for the foreseeable future.

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Acupuncture, Culture in Old Town/Pearl

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Posted By Tim DuRoche on 11/05/2008

Ankrom Moisan is proposing to renovate of the Globe Hotel—massaging the way for The Oregon College of Oriental Medicine’s new home

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Winning Strategies for Bridge

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Posted By Tim DuRoche on 11/01/2008

This week renowned architect Miguel Rosales presented viable designs for the hotly anticipated Portland-Milwaukie transit-only bridge—our first new bridge in more than 30 years.

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