collaboration wins
Congratulations to all the winners (including three IDMU students), and participants, in IIDA’s 2014 student design charrette. This is the first year IIDA used a charrette as the centerpiece of their...
View Articlebetter as a dress
The Portland Building is better as a dress than as a building. Unfortunately, it isn’t even a very good dress – not flattering, synthetic materials, it’s scratchy, and hot in the summer / cold in the...
View ArticlePortland is a factory town
Donuts, bicycles, chickens, and factories – artisan factories. What is Portland’s common thread? Highly energetic, creative and cooperative people who make things, and make things happen. Spooltown...
View Articlelayers of service
The space pictured above is no ordinary airport lounge – there are at least 3 boxes of tissues scattered about. This is the new USO-NW @ PDX respite-space. There is a beautiful symbiotic relationship...
View Articlegraves’isms
Michael Graves has a stealth sense of humor, a most helpful tool in calming a crowd on the verge of heaving tomatoes. Last night he kidded, poked, prodded, questioned, informed, loved-up, and...
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