All Things Portland

[julius]

Nothing so far as I know, but what do you mean?

barfo

The on ramp off of Barbur (well, Nato) looks to be gone in this rendering.

 

[barfo]

I think the city should clean up and/or paint the Fremont bridge.

The Fremont?

barfo

 

[julius]

The Fremont?

barfo

Yes, the Fremont. It's a bridge in Portland. I cross it regularly. It's dirty, ugly and in need of a industrial strength power-washing. Maybe even change it's color, so it's not that gawd awful late 60's early 70's concrete grey that dominated a lot of Portland in the 80s and early 90's.

 

[barfo]

The on ramp off of Barbur (well, Nato) looks to be gone in this rendering.

Ah. Interesting. Dunno.

barfo

 

[julius]

Much smaller but it's not original and obviously inspired by the Fremont Bridge -- Port Mann Bridge (Vancouver, BC) ~

actually, it's the other way around. The Port Mann Bridge inspired the Fremont.

 

[barfo]

Yes, the Fremont. It's a bridge in Portland. I cross it regularly. It's dirty, ugly and in need of a industrial strength power-washing. Maybe even change it's color, so it's not that gawd awful late 60's early 70's concrete grey that dominated a lot of Portland in the 80s and early 90's.

Well, it is concrete. For my money the Marquam is a lot uglier.

barfo

 

[barfo]

actually, it's the other way around. The Port Mann Bridge inspired the Fremont.

And the Port Mann bridge is bigger. And scheduled to be replaced and demolished.

barfo

 

[julius]

Well, it is concrete. For my money the Marquam is a lot uglier.

barfo

the only way to make the Marquam less ugly is to remove it. At least with the Fremont they could paint it, or add (more) flags to it.

 

[barfo]

the only way to make the Marquam less ugly is to remove it.

I'm in favor of making it less ugly.

barfo

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

[video=youtube;F9xvIZX2fTM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9xvIZX2fTM[/video]

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Their new Portland location:

 

[barfo]

Well, it's a nice looking church building. I guess if I find myself with an addiction to pornography and a history of churchgoing, I might look them up.

barfo

 

[THE HCP]

Beautiful church, but save the preaching for another thread please.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Beautiful church, but save the preaching for another thread please.

I'm not religious

This church is as anti-Portland as it gets. They're a very fundamental group who hates 'the gays'. Just this | side of Westboro.

 

[THE HCP]

Too bad he didn't get jumped by some skaters under the Burnside bridge as he shot this!

 

[barfo]

Too bad he didn't get jumped by some skaters under the Burnside bridge as he shot this!

That would have been unlikely, since I believe he was under the Hawthorne bridge...

barfo

 

[julius]

that guy has an addictive personality, yet it's Portlands fault.

I guess if there's one way to get your audience interest, it's to insult them and their city.

 

[Natebishop3]

Oh man that sucks... I saw that church a couple months ago and I thought it would be awesome to get married there because it looks like a castle. At the time it was for sale, too bad that's the new occupants.

 

[BrianFromWA]

I'm not religious

This church is as anti-Portland as it gets. They're a very fundamental group who hates 'the gays'. Just this | side of Westboro.

In your 3 sentences, you just had four postulations that are about as wrong as it possible gets. But that's probably for another thread

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

The world's largest crane is in the metro; $3billion Intel factory being constructed in Hillsboro.

LINK

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Today the Portland Development Commission announced the city's selection of architects for the renovation of Memorial Coliseum. A team led by Portland firm Opsis Architecture and Mineappolis-based Ellerbe Becket won the job over the sole other team, Portland's BOORA and Kansas City's Populous (formerly known as HOK).

Many believed that BOORA and Populous had the inside track because BOORA performed feasibility-study work for PDC on the Coliseum in the past, assessing what work needed to be done, which in turn fed the Request For Proposals the agency issued for the job. Populous has also designed or co-designed an incredible array of stadiums and arenas around the world, such as the new Yankee Stadium, the new Wembley Stadium in London (with Norman Foster), Stadium Australia in Sydney (home of the 2000 Olympics), Wimbledon Centre Court, Minneapolis's Target Field, San Francisco's AT&T Park, Chicago's United Center arena, Cleveland Browns Stadium, Pittsburgh's Heinz Field, Houston's Reliant Stadium, and Arsenal's Emirates Stadium in London.

The city-issued RFP treated the Coliseum project within its four walls to comprise the job, with the renovation of the outdoor sunken memorials area treated as a separate project. But the winning design proposal also addressed this area. "The scope of work doesn’t get you past the window wall, but we want to have a long-term plan," Meyer adds. His team proposes removing the barrier between the two sides of the memorial plaza. Meyer also hopes the Opsis-Ellerbe team will be ultimatley able to address the broader ground-level plaza between the Coliseum and the Rose Garden. "You think about the history of Portland and open space: there’s recent stuff like Jamison square, there's also Pioneer Courthouse Square and the Halprin Fountains. The Coliseum plaza is small but it’s right sized to do something special like that."

-portlandarchitecture.com (Brian Libby)​

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

[video=vimeo;27591364]http://vimeo.com/27591364[/video]

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

[video=vimeo;26286127]http://vimeo.com/26286127[/video]

 

[THE HCP]

^ that is dope! I have taken tons of random pics of our bridges. I will def be checking that out!

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

[video=youtube;ty0NAWtB6WY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty0NAWtB6WY[/video]

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Has anyone been by the new Niketown location?

The renovation looks awesome. The (1928 building) exterior is spruced up and the interior is going to be awesome; three floors of Nikedom! Oh yeah, it's no longer going to be called 'Niketown', it's now 'Nike Portland'.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Church to build senior housing on parking lot in Southeast Portland​

Burnside Living, a 132-unit senior living community, is being developed by the Foursquare Foundation of Los Angeles. The project is part of a move by the church to develop some of its underused property into senior housing. KTGY Group Inc. has worked with the church before, and is looking forward to the $29 million Portland project, principal Manny Gonzalez said.

“Architecture in Portland has a very contemporary feel,” he said. That suits senior housing, because “active adults don’t want to move into the same kind of house their grandmother moved into. There’s a tendency to get away from traditional toward the more contemporary.”

Presently, the site is a parking lot for a nearby Foursquare church building. Some of that parking will be maintained in an underground lot, but on-site parking will be established for residents and street parking will accommodate planned ground-floor retail. Gonzalez believes a café or hair salon, in particular, would appeal to Burnside Living residents.

So far, the only other firm signed on to the project is KPFF Consulting Engineers, but Gonzalez said that KTGY Group will seek more local consultants and a local general contractor. KTGY Group plans to begin construction in spring 2012 and complete the project within 18 months.

LINK

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[Fez Hammersticks]

Another renovation of a historic building!

The 15-story Yeon Building was the tallest in Portland when it was constructed on Southwest Fifth Avenue, near Alder Street, in 1911. But after purchasing the building in March, the Jonathan Rose Cos. sought an update to attract tenants, so the group brought on SERA Architects to design a renovation of part of the facade and the lobby, systems and corridors.

“It’s a very tired building, but it has fabulous bones to it,” said SERA senior interior designer Lisa Zangerle, who is also the project manager for the renovation.

As for the lobby, part of the existing marble will be retained, Zangerle said, but most of the existing finishes will be replaced. Crews will remove wood paneling and replace flooring; the goal is to create a lighter, cleaner space that still touches back with the building’s roots.

“We’re going to bring back the art deco feel in a subtle way,” Zangerle said.

The building also will have space for modern amenities – like a bike room, a public conference room and perhaps a fitness center. New mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems will make the building run more efficiently.

Overall, the renovation is “reserved and very clean,” Zangerle said. Part of the reason for subtlety of the renovation is the Yeon Building’s status on the National Register of Historic Places.

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[Fez Hammersticks]

HCP's theme song:

[video=youtube;QxXu-geMVss]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxXu-geMVss[/video]

Gangsta, GAAAANGTA.....

 

[julius]

HCP's theme song:

[video=youtube;QxXu-geMVss]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxXu-geMVss[/video]

Gangsta, GAAAANGTA.....

there should be a way to remove rep points for posting that.

 

[THE HCP]

^That might be the worse thing ever! I'll find ya' some real Portland hip hop FAMS!