A front-page story in Sunday’s Oregonian by Michael Milstein details how local and state governments have undertaken numerous small measures that collectively help offset greenhouse gas levels and, in turn, help fight global warming. Between traffic signal improvements, tree planting and building efficiency measures, Milstein reports, the next few decades years will see these efforts […]

Sunday’s Oregonian included a Randy Gragg profile of developer Joe Weston in the Opinion section. Weston has spent decades of developing small apartments and other projects around the city in established neighborhoods. He’s now one of the city’s major players in the boom of larger high-density residential projects. Weston took over as developer of the Benson […]

The American Institute of Architects has elected local architects Kent Duffy of SRG Partnership and Nels Hall of YGH Architecture (he’s the ‘H’) to its College of Fellows, recognizing a career’s worth of achievement. Hall has been a YGH design principal since 1980. Prior to that, he worked as an architect in Boston and Zurich firms. […]

This weekend, while watching hour after hour of the NCAA basketball tournament, I saw a commercial for Renaissance Homes, the Lake Oswego based residential builder. If I’m not mistaken, Renaissance builds mostly single-family homes in suburban subdivisions. That’s not really my area of interest, to put it diplomatically. But the Renaissance commercial piqued my interest […]

Today and tonight two Portland State University Department of Architecture classes are offering public presentations of their projects at the Unitus Building (2121 SW Fourth Avenue, Third Floor). The ‘Architecture and Human Action’ group presents from 1-5pm, but I know a little bit more about the second group, called “T[h]reading the City” thanks to some […]

Recently Commissioner Sam Adams has advocated for a new Portland streetcar line to the east side of the Willamette River, and to help pay for it the city is exploring expanding or extending the time frame of various urban renewal areas. And there is a sense of urgency to Adams’ and others’ efforts, because […]

On Thursday it was announced that the Ladd Tower condominium project will instead be developed that the project will instead be developed as 220 luxury rental apartments, along with the planned four retail tenants on the ground floor. According to the press release, plans for the temporary move and preservation of the Ladd Carriage House remain […]

Hello from London, where I’m on Day 3 of vacation. This is my fourth trip to the city, and it’s still one of my favorite places in the world. How does this relate to Portland architecture? Only peripherally, although it allows one to see home in new ways. This afternoon, for example, I was thinking about […]

I’m still in London on vacation right now, and it’s too late at night for me to write a long post right now. And it’s also probably a bad idea for me to address again the Burnside Couplet debate before thinking and analyzing and researching the debate properly. But one though occurred to me that […]

Ethical Society by Remiss63. The Ethical Society of St. Louis by Harris Armstrong. Much more information on Harris Armstrong can be found at Remiss63’s own Architectural Ruminations. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or :: Tag your photos archidose Published by JohnContinue reading: Today’s archidose #65

One of this year’s P/A Awards (now administered by the twice-removed-from-Progressive-Architecture Architect Magazine) is Aziza Chaouni’s Hybrid Urban Sutures: Filling in the Gaps in the Medina of Fez, Morocco. Started as a graduate thesis and furthered via independent study, the project that “analyzes the urban, architectural, and social issues affecting Middle Eastern historic districts” is […]

My weekly page update: Tietgen Residence Hall in Copenhagen, Denmark by Lundgaard & Tranberg. The updated book feature is Architecture of the Air: The Sound and Light Environments of Christopher Janney, by Beth Dunlop. Some unrelated links for your enjoyment: The Architecture of Fear “An Independent Study by George Agnew at Columbia University…[that] will attempt to pull together multiple Published […]

Reddish Brown Canal by Quod Libertarius [Zakka]. Tietgenkollegiet (student housing) in Ørestad, Denmark, a suburb of Copenhagen, by Lundgaard & Tranberg. More information here. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or :: Tag your photos archidoseUpdate 02.25: This project is also featured on my weekly page. Published by JohnContinue […]

In my inbox today landed a link to a page called The World as Flatland, with the brief description that it is the “first project of the multi-part series ‘Visualizing Feedback’ on the design and interpretation of statistics.” Upon visiting the page it appears to show a snapshot of those viewing the page at that moment. […]

On my articles page I added one of my papers from last semester, Driving is Murder: The Automobile, Violence, and the City in Film Noir, for the class Reading the City: Film Noir. Basically the paper is a response to a consistent theme or trait I saw in the films we watched in class, such […]

At The Yale Center for British Art by thbonamici. The Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, CT by Louis I. Kahn. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or :: Tag your photos archidose Published by JohnContinue reading: Today’s archidose #64

A comment by shannon in my last post provided a link to Graffitecture, a book and exhibition with a release party/opening today in Chicago at Hejfina. Forty Chicago-based Graffiti artists were asked to “draw directly on photographic prints of architectural spaces.” The online, Flash version of the show is a well-done virtual book that gives […]

So far this year Archinect has posted nine features on its page, a staggering number when one also realizes that only two were posted last year by this time. Of course quantity doesn’t mean much if quality is lacking, something the editors don’t have to worry about, with a wide-range of what are mostly very […]

About a year and a half ago I posted about a horseshoe-shaped, glass-bottom walkway that would jut into the Grand Canyon, sitting nearly a mile above the Colorado River. It was optimistically planned to open on the first day of 2006, but that obviously did not happen. An LA Times article, though, indicates that construction […]

Villa La Roche-Jeanneret by Le Corbusier by fotofacade. Villas La Roche-Jeanneret (1925) in Paris by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, now housing the Foundation Le Corbusier. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or :: Tag your photos archidose Published by JohnContinue reading: Today’s archidose #62

The South Court is “the first permanent addition to the New York Public Library in 89 years … a three-story infill structure,” according to architect Davis Brody Bond (now Davis Brody Bond Aedas). An illuminated bridge creates a transition between the old, staid library and the new infill piece. The contemporary structure sits in contrast to […]

Bamboo scaffolding in Hong Kong by loan Sameli. “Bamboo scaffolding around skyscrapers in construction in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong.” To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or :: Tag your photos archidose Published by JohnContinue reading: Today’s archidose #61

Caplutta Sogn Benedetg by photograph er?. A chapel in Sumvitg, Switzerland by Peter Zumthor, completed in 1988. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or :: Tag your photos archidose Published by JohnContinue reading: Today’s archidose #60

I’ve never been a fan of the Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s buildings. They’re a bit too goofy and definitely the product of a painter rather than an architect (which in itself isn’t a problem, but the surface treatment of the exteriors I think stems from this). His most well-known building is easily the eponymous apartment complex in […]

Late last year Pruned shared a news report (well worth watching) on “cell phone towers in elaborate disguises,” such as trees, cacti, water towers, and flag poles. That report came to mind the other day when I noticed from afar some bumps on a church bell tower near my apartment, bumps with the distinct size […]

Skyward by Quod Libertarius [Zakka]. A mysterious detail of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation in Copenhagen, Denmark. I’m guessing it’s a curtain wall/mullion detail. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or :: Tag your photos archidose Published by JohnContinue reading: Today’s archidose #59

parlamento alemám, Berlín by atwose. Reichstag, New German Parliament in Berlin, Germany by Norman Foster. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or :: Tag your photos archidose Published by JohnContinue reading: Today’s archidose #58

To commemorate the 150-year anniversary of the American Institute of Architects, the organization polled “1,800 Americans naming their 150 favorite structures across the nation based on nominations from AIA member architects.” At first glance the results are an odd bunch, ranging from obvious choices like the first place Empire State Building to perhaps the least […]

Shipping & Transport College* by fdo h. Shipping & Transport College in Rotterdam, Netherlands by Neutelings Riedijk Architects. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or :: Tag your photos archidose Published by JohnContinue reading: Today’s archidose #57

Here’s a series of six panel discussions at the Center for Architecture that I just learned about, called Brandism. The goal is to “examine architecture’s role as an identity-generating force in the global market place.” One discussion already happened, but click the image for information on the remaining five. For more information. Published by JohnContinue reading: Brandism