The Burnside Blog
Should PDX Ban The Plastic?
Last week, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels (who makes ours look a park bench) signed an executive order that bans the city from buying bottled water…
The World Comes, Portland Does Nothing
The 2010 Winter Olympics are coming to the Pacific Northwest, and Portland leaders aren’t event talking about it.
PDC Taking Steps to Buy Pearl Postal Site
But what does the six-acre parcel want to be?
Renovated Cornelius Hotel An Opportunity
If projects like the Ace Hotel and Hotel Jupiter are indicators, the Cornelius Hotel could be a huge boon to Downtown Portland. Let’s hope its developers are paying attention.
Portland Checks Hollywood
There are on average 23 filming projects happening in Downtown Los Angeles everyday. Until recently, no one complained because no one lived there…
Lynchpin Pearl Development Moving Forward
The Meier and Frank warehouse is one of the few full-block buildings in the Pearl District’s core that hasn’t been redeveloped. That’s about to change.
Architecture Death Match: Tonight at DWR
Neburka, Schilling, Kovel, Libby
The Reverse Logic of PDX Transportation Planning
Rail should be where rail is needed.
Is the Burnside Couplet Necessary?
Burnside Needs some fixes, but does the Couplet go too far?
Gerding Edlen to Launch Renewable Energy Company
Green Guru Dennis Wilde will direct.
Ziba Headquarters Breaks Ground Today
With gorgeous new homes for PNCA and Ziba, the North Pearl is poised to become an epicenter of art design on the West Coast
PDC Fancies LAB Holdings for Centennial Mills Facelift
The California-based developer is the local favorite.
Thurman Infill Architects Have Their Day
Works Partnership Architecture’s Carrie Schilling and Bill Neburka’s “brutally intrude” the cover of the O’s Art Section…
Design Commission on Next Phase of South Waterfront
The first of SOWA developer Prometheus before Design Commission today.
Thurman Infill 2.0
In January, Burnside Blog weighed in on a proposed infill condo development in NW Portland. The project has been approved and will move forward…
Old Town Uwajimaya Would Be Best Thing Ever For You and Me
Screw baseball, what Downtown really needs is a giant Asian grocer.
Preservation Movement Embraces Modernism. Will Portland?
A quick rant on historic preservation in PDX.
Rugrats in the Pearl
Shouldn’t Portland’s flagship urban neighborhood leave a little room for little ones?
