Everyone (at least who reads this blog) knows Portland has a dynamic urban culture. Naturally, there’s an online site – Portland Spaces – that brings together sources and ideas. And within that, they have the Burnside Blog.
Here’s a taste.
Urban Uprising: The Buildings
Take your average residential lot in Portland (That’d be 5,000 square feet), build a house that fills the space from corner-to-corner, stack it on top of itself 22 times, add some nice details, and you’ll have something that resembles this tower (West Burnside at 13th Avenue) being developed and designed by Skylab. Proposed for a site just behind the Crystal Ballroom, it’s skinny, it’s sexy – and in this market, very speculative – but I hope to God it gets built.