The Burnside Blog

Portland City Council okays transforming Mt. Tabor Park’s the decades-old Yard, Nursery, and Long Block from its Dickensian state.

The Riverdale School District board votes to tear down A.E. Doyle’s historic Grade School and replace it with a “larger and more efficient building.” Go Team.

Portland Mayor-elect Sam Adams announces major changes to the city’s bureaucracy, including the merging of the Office of Sustainable Development and the Bureau of Planning.

At Spaces 2008 Root Awards, Joachim Grube was given the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award as a Master Architect…here’s the video that accompanied the presentation

Ada Louise Huxtable sets the record straight on Brad Cloepfil’s Museum of Arts and Design

The highly esteemed Ada Louise Huxtable comes to the defense of Portland’s own Brad Cloepfil and gives perspective on the perspective of time in architecture.

Your color-coded, pocket-sized, real-time map to the wild world of Portland development projects

James Frank was one of three masters celebrated at the 2008 Root Awards dinner

Public bathrooms open in Old Town, Convention Hotel plans set to go down the drain

Portland’s first bridge over the Willamette River in 35 years comes to a critical juncture.

How can we parlay Portland’s creative assets into cold, green do-re-mi?

A new pedestrian-bridge at the South Waterfront; Vestas, princes of Denmark’s wind-power, turn to SoWa as a possible HQ

Preservation vs. Development in the Big Apple—what’s the lesson for Portland?