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 the scale of Portland, particularly with respect to height and residential buildings. We’ve gone gaga for thin, tall condo towers in recent years, of course, and I was always one of the people supporting that transformation. No more squatty stump buildings! But the funny thing is, for how huge of a world capitol it is, London does not have many skyscrapers at all, and those that are seem to be offices. Instead, what I see here is lots and lots of row houses and brownstones. We’re staying with friends in a neighborhood called Wandsworth Common, […]
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