Kings Road House, Los Angeles BY LUKE AREHART R.M. Schindler’s Kings Road House: Pre-Everybody Lecture by Judith Sheine, UO Department of Architecture Professor and Department Head. R.M. Schindler lived and worked in his house and studio on Kings Road from...

Francis and Hopkins Motors (rendering via Frozen Music) BY BRIAN LIBBY In late March, word came (via The Business Journal) that St. Mary’s Academy, the Catholic girls’ high school downtown along SW Sixth Avenue, is acquiring the former University Station...

Architect-editor Peter Murray (image courtesy Portland to Portland) BY BRIAN LIBBY By the time you read this, they will be somewhere in the bread basket of the United States, on the long stretch between Portland and Minneapolis populated with antelope...

Wright's Marin County Civic Center (image courtesy AHC) BY LUKE AREHART Romanza: The California Structures Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright In 1909, Frank Lloyd Wright designed a summer home for George and Emily Stewart in Montecito, California, his first California...

Tim Eddy (photo by Kim-Oanh-Nguyen) BY LUKE AREHART Since forming in 1992, Portland firm Hennebery Eddy Architects has amassed an impressive portfolio fusing sustainable principles with a reverence for craftsmanship and simple, beautiful forms. The firm has won a slough...

The Albert Apartments, Williams Avenue (image via Ruben J. Menashe, Inc.) BY BRIAN LIBBY Today perhaps like no other street in Portland, Williams Avenue embodies the ups and downs of density and development in historic neighborhoods. The one-way, two-lane street,...

Tim Ingold (image courtesy L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Nancy) BY LUKE AREHART Editor's note: this post begins what is planned as an every-other-week roundup of goings on in Portland's architecture and design communities. To submit an event, write to...

Portland Playhouse (photo by Matthew Henderson) BY MATTHEW HENDERSON The community initiative to save the vacated St. Paul/Gethsemane church at NE Eighth and Failing and turn it into a non-profit community center has met its end. But around Portland there...

The Gordon House, Silverton (image courtesy Gordon House Conservancy) BY BRIAN LIBBY When a landmark Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house in Arizona the architect designed for his son was threatened with demolition last year, it might have had a familiar ring...

"Inversion: Plus Minus" (photo by Rich Rano) BY RICH RANO The Central Eastside resides as one of Portland’s industrial sanctuaries with an established goal to evolve its uses while maintaining the close-in manufacturing core for the many makers, producers, and...

Brad Cloepfil (image courtesy Allied Works) BY BRIAN LIBBY After forming in 1994 and then gaining local and national attention in the latter half of the '90s with projects like the Maryhill Overlook and especially the Wieden + Kennedy headquarters,...

"Inversion: Plus Minus" and Portland Streetcar (image courtesy Lead Pencil Studio) BY BRIAN LIBBY My trek began at the east end of the Hawthorne Bridge, where a massive new public art installation marks the arrival of Portland's newest streetcar line...

Robert Oshatz (image courtesy of the architect) BY LUKE AREHART The latest installment in our ongoing series profiling local architects, their careers and passions takes us to one of the city's most venerable and iconoclastic designers. Robert Oshatz practices an...

Sawyer's Row housing project (rendering courtesy Holst Architecture) BY BRIAN LIBBY For much of the 2000s, Holst Architecture epitopized the condo boom. Along with other local firms like Ankrom Moisan, Vallaster Corl and Myhre Group, Holst saw a succession of...

Works Partnership's house on 53rd Avenue (photo by Joshua Jay Elliot) BY BRIAN LIBBY Condos in North and Southeast Portland. A prototype house in Northeast. A passive house in Southwest. Three midcentury gems in the West Hills and Beaverton. Even...

3330 SE Division (rendering courtesy THA Architecture) BY BRIAN LIBBY Whether designed by a prestigious, award-winning firm or a mediocre one with cookie-cutter tendencies, most mixed-use condos and apartments routinely take a similar boxy form determined as much by lenders’...

Entrance to US Custom House, from north (photo by Brian Libby) BY BRIAN LIBBY For most of its history since opening in 1901, Portland's U.S. Custom House has been a kind of gilded monolith: a grand Italian Renaissance structure one...

Interstate Bridge from Vancouver, WA (photo by Brian Libby) BY BRIAN LIBBY In an era of depleting budgets and limited resources for infrastructure, nothing could be more heartbreaking than a region committing billions of dollars to the wrong project. But...

St. Paul/Gesthemane church (photo by Brian Libby) BY BRIAN LIBBY To move west on Failing Street from Northeast Portland across Martin Luther King Boulevard and Williams Avenue into North Portland's Mississippi district is to witness the changing demographics and architecture...

Darin Dougherty (photo courtesy of the architect) BY LUKE AREHART Leading off the Architect’s Questionnaire series for 2013 is Portland architect and retail design/experience expert Darin Dougherty. After honing his skills at a host of prestigious architecture firms including TVA...

Proposed Grand Union Depot (image courtesy The West Shore, April 1882) BY ALEXANDER CRAGHEAD Portland is blessed by the preservation and continued existence of many notable historic structures, not the least of which is its beautiful Union Station. Being the...

Rendering of Grant Park Village from west (courtesy LRS/Runberg) By FRED LEESON No five-acre tract in Portland likely has undergone more development scrutiny, planning and neighborhood tooth-gnashing than the former site of Albina Fuel Co. at NE Broadway and 33rd...

Design Museum Boston's Derek Cascio and Sam Aquillano (photo by Brian Libby) BY BRIAN LIBBY This Monday evening, the monthly Bright Lights discussion series from Portland Monthly and the City Club welcomes two Boston designers who, although they look young...

A cantilevered HOMB upstairs bedroom (photo by Brian Libby) BY BRIAN LIBBY Over the past decade, numerous architecture firms around the country have introduced prefabricated home designs intended to streamline the high cost of building without sacrificing quality. Publications like...

Ada Louise Huxtable (photo by Garth Huxtable) BY DAN HANECKOW Ada Loise Huxtable, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times and Wall Street Journal architectural critic as well as a celebrated author and preservationist, died on January 7 at the age...

Zidell Yards (rendering courtesy ZGF) BY BRIAN LIBBY Last Friday in Atlantic Cities, I wrote about the Zidell Yards development and its master plan by ZGF Architects. "Despite its size, Zidell Yards seeks to be a macro development comprised of...

Central Eastside railway (photo by Brian Libby) BY BRIAN LIBBY In Tuesday's New York Times, Lisa Foderado reports on an initiative underway in the Queens borough of New York City to replicate the success of Manhattan's High Line park with...

Ladd Carriage House (photo by Brian Libby) BY FRED LEESON One of downtown Portland’s oldest and most charming buildings enters a new era this month after a twisting saga of architectural preservation that needed California entrepreneurs to complete. The 130-year...

Vestas headquarters (photo by Brian Libby) BY BRIAN LIBBY For more than four years now, the economy and architects' role in it has seemed to be partially recovered from the lowest depths of 2007 and 2008's catastrophes, yet unable to...

Right 2 Dream Too homeless camp (photo by Israel Bayer for Street Roots) BY BRIAN LIBBY Today's Oregonian includes two stories about the struggle against homelessness that together say a lot about the up-and-down nature of the problem and how...