Digital Animation Studio, an Honor Award winner (image courtesy Lever Architecture) Every year for the past decade as Ive covered the annual AIA/Portland Design Awards, the top prize, known as the Ho...
Tingley-Fortin Residence (photo by John Jensen) BY BRIAN LIBBY Last night the trio of jurors presiding over this years AIA/Portland Design Awards gave their annual Jury Critique presentation, beginni...
Map of Occupy Portland encampment (by Jonathan Hill for Willamette Week) BY BRIAN LIBBY In this weeks Willamette Week, Aaron Mesh reports on his 48 hours living in the Occupy Portland encampment and ...
Lloyd Crossing ecodistrict plan (image courtesy Mithun) BY BRIAN LIBBY This week from October 26-28, the Portland Oregon Sustainability Institute will present the second annual Ecodistrict Summit, wh...
Oregon Sustainability Center lobby (rendering courtesy GBD Architects) BY BRIAN LIBBY Last month in an article for Atlantic Cities, I wrote about the Oregon Sustainability Center and how Portlands (a...
Hawthorne Park Studio Addition (image courtesy City of Portland) BY BRIAN LIBBY This Satuday, September 24, brings the the 10th annual "Build It Green!" homes tour (the exclamation point is t...
CRC deck-truss design BY BRIAN LIBBY Imagine if Portlands only bridge over the Willamette River was the Marquam, which carries traffic from Interstate 5. If we were going to address the congestion th...
The Mock House from 1891 (image courtesy Architetural Heritage Center) BY FRED LEESON Given tall trees surrounding it, a motorist driving past can easily miss seeing the three-story Queen Anne-style ...
1961 Aston Martin (image courtesy Portland Art Museum) BY BRIAN LIBBY Yesterday after visiting the "Allure of the Automobile" exhibit at the Portland Art Museum, my first reaction - other tha...
Wells Fargo buiding (photos by Bradley Maule) BY BRADLEY MAULE EDITORS NOTE: This is the first in a series by Bradley Maule on buildings that have held the distinction of being the tallest in Portland...
From "The Hidden Life of Bridges" (courtesy PICA) BY BRIAN LIBBY From 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm on September 8-10 as part of the Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts annual Time-Based Art Festi...
Memorial Coliseum (photo by Matthew Ginn) BY BRIAN LIBBY Today the Portland Development Commission announced the citys selection of architects for the renovation of Memorial Coliseum. A team led by P...
Screen shot of Portland Smarter Cities app (courtesy IBM) BY BRIAN LIBBY In Wednesdays New York Times, Mark Oppenheimer reviews a new book about applying evolutionary biology thinking and techniques ...
Portland Streetcar (image courtesy CityImage.net) BY BRIAN LIBBY It was the summer of 2001. The nation was still several weeks away from the terrorist attacks that would mark the beginning of a new e...
Birds Nest stadium, Beijing (photo by Brian Libby) BY BRIAN LIBBY When Beijing hosted the Olympic Games three years ago, the biggest star was arguably not swimmer Michael Phelps or sprinter Usain Bol...
Paradise Inn, Mt. Rainier (photo by Fred Leeson) BY FRED LEESON It is with considerable embarrassment that someone who has lived in the Pacific Northwest for most of 50 years admits to making a firs...
Portland waterfront, late 19th century (image courtesy Portland Waterfront History) BY BRIAN LIBBY In the last year or two, The New York Times has certainly showered Portland with plenty of travel an...
PCCs Sylvania Campus (image courtesy Portland Community College) In the first decade after World War II, the G.I. Bill made it possible for a generation of former service members to obtain an educati...
The Woods in Sellwood (photo courtesy Portland Mercury) For more than 70 years after it was constructed in 1929, the Mission style on Milwaukie Avenue in Portlands Sellwood district was a quiet place...
Centennial Mills (image courtesy Portland Development Commission) BY BRIAN LIBBY Last Monday (July 27), Portland Development Commission chair Scott Andrews and Mayor Sam Adams posted an open letter t...
Front and Oak, 1939, in a photo by Minor White (courtesy Cafe Unknown) BY FRED LEESON “It costs a lot of money to make a building look like this.” Developer John Russell drew hearty laughs with that ...
Mel Blanc (image courtesy Oregon Cartoon Institute) This Saturday and next bring opportunities to see not only some of Portlands most attractive historic homes, but also to trace the steps of a favor...
Downtown Portland (photo by Brian Libby) BY COLIN CORTES AND JOSEPH READDY In the last decade, US Green Building Council has seen a groundswell of support develop for its initiatives, not only throug...
Gresham City Hall (photos by Matthew Ginn, Homestead Images) BY MATTHEW GINN AND BRIAN LIBBY Continuing Portland Architectures photographic tour of metro area city halls large and small, granite edif...
Downtown Portland from Hawthorne Bridge (photo by Brian Libby) BY FRED LEESON Nostalgia can hit in unexpected ways. As the City of Portland goes about trying to draft a Central City 2035 plan to gu...
Burnside Bridge (photo by Brian Libby) On June 22, Mayor Adams announced a change in his administration’s plan to turn West Burnside and Northwest Couch Street into a couplet of one-way streets with ...
Ihab Elzeyadi examines his solar awning (image courtesy University of Oregon) BY BRIAN LIBBY A University of Oregon architecture program team has advanced to the semifinals of the Clean Tech 2011 Ope...
Vancouver Library (photo courtesy Miller Hull Partnership) BY BRIAN LIBBY Over the past decade, Portland’s suburb across the Columbia River, Vancouver, has made impressive strides to establish a vibr...
The Galleria (photo by Fred Leeson) BY FRED LEESON It would be entirely understandable if Art DeMuro, chairman of the Portland Historic Landmarks Commission, feels like he has a big red target on his...
Bud Clark Commons (photo by Brian Libby) BY BRIAN LIBBY When Holst Architecture was designing the Bud Clark Commons, the new homeless day center, shelter and transitional housing facility that opened...
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