The Burnside Blog
Oregon Department of Brand Management
Bah, Humbug: U of O plans to change the forever iconic “Made in Oregon” sign atop White Stag to read “University of Oregon.”
Homebuilding Horizons
Tea-leaf-reading conjectures on the homebuilding industry, via the sages at Urban Land Institute
America's Next Top Model (for the New Urbanism)
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.
Out here in the Fields
Hoyt Street’s Encore debuts in the Pearl, a Park begins to see the light, but what about Centennial Mills?
Re-find the ReFind
The new storefront for ReFind at The ReBuilding Center shows just what an organization can do with some innovation and excellent recycled building materials.
Jetpacks and Dreams
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.)
14 Parcels, part deux (it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas)
Visions of the parcels accumulating under for 14 Parcels
The architecture is Bond. James Bond.
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 . . .
Pass the Parcels: Kevin Cavenaugh
14 Parcels, Kevin Cavenaugh’s daring high-density housing project, is upon us
The Buck doesn't stop here . . .
. . . 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.
Landmark Cases and Decisions
Three vital pieces of regional design identity, from three periods of Portland-past, get the once-over this week
The Political Memory of Architecture
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 . . .
The QT on the PDC's OTCT Projects
The Portland Development Commission presents its roster of project in Portland’s Old Town/Chinatown to the China Business Network
Wanted: Crystal Ball
Two projects are coming up for a Design Review today. . .neither is likely to actually get underway or built for the foreseeable future.
Acupuncture, Culture in Old Town/Pearl
Ankrom Moisan is proposing to renovate of the Globe Hotel—massaging the way for The Oregon College of Oriental Medicine’s new home
Winning Strategies for Bridge
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.
