A few of years ago at an AIA conference I met Gordon Price, who was then a city council member in Vancouver, BC and is now the director of The City Program at Simon Fraser University (and whose disembodied head appears at left). He’s also a frequent visitor to Portland.
Recently Gordon emailed me with news of a paper he’d written, the title of which seemed intriguing: “Mutual Appreciation: How Portland and Vancouver Exchanged Looks”.
The just of his discussion outlines how, as we know, the increasingly tall and thin towers going up in the South Waterfront, northern Pearl and West End are greatly influenced by Vancouver’s. What may be less well known to Portlanders, though, is how Vancouver has increasingly begun to embrace the kind of lower-rise buildings more common to the older portions of the revitalized Pearl. Price writes:
Just as Portland was being persuaded of the benefits of […]
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