- Portland Building - Wikipedia
Built at a cost of US$29 million, it opened in 1982 and was considered architecturally groundbreaking at the time [7][8] The building houses offices of the City of Portland and is located adjacent to Portland City Hall It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011 [6]
- The Portland Building
Designed by renowned architect Michael Graves, the Portland Building was constructed in 1982 as administrative offices for the City of Portland It is an award-winning example of postmodern architecture and home to the iconic Portlandia statue, which gazes down at visitors along Fifth Avenue
- Portland Building - The Oregon Encyclopedia
As one of the earliest large-scale Post-Modern buildings, the Portland Building was daring Graves designed it as a symmetrical, fifteen-story block clad in scored-off white stucco and set on a stepped two-story tiled pedestal
- One of the World’s Largest Log Cabin: The Magnificent Forestry Building . . .
Architect Ion Lewis (1853-1933), of the noted Portland architectural firm of Whidden and Lewis, designed the Forestry Building for the massive log cabin
- Portland Living Building | PAE
In the heart of Portland, Oregon, a new kind of building has rewritten the rules regarding the potential of architecture, engineering, and sustainability The PAE Living Building isn’t just a structure, but a statement It challenges the thinking behind modern construction and proves that buildings can be regenerative and resilient
- National Register of Historic Places - Oregon. gov
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States' official list of buildings, districts, structures, sites, and objects important to local, state, or national history
- The Portland Building - Oregon History Project
In 1985, it was installed on a third floor pedestal designed for the artwork The building’s base of forest green tile, rises three stories to a predominantly cream-colored main section, set with small, four-foot square windows and terracotta-colored pilasters, and whimsical garlands of green ribbons hanging from blue medallions
- The Portland Building – Michael Graves
The competition-winning Portland Building – controversial because of its bold forms, colors, and ornament – has been considered the first built building associated with Postmodernism and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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