The Burnside Blog

Bridging Logic UPDATED

noreply@portlandspaces.net — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:59:00 -0700

Get ready for the latest from TriMet

Bridge Over: Troubled Waters for Rosales' Design UPDATED

noreply@portlandspaces.net — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:58:00 -0700

Miguel Rosales will no longer be involved in the Milwaukie LRT crossing project. Next week we see if his celebrated “hybrid” design survives

Going Dutch: Learning from A'dam's little sister

noreply@portlandspaces.net — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:36:00 -0700

Perhaps Rotterdam is a better city to aspire to than it’s bigger sister, Amsterdam. And oh, what a plan for a Public Market!

Streat of Dreams: Art on Alberta at 10

noreply@portlandspaces.net — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:53:00 -0700

Alberta Street discovers its muse with a multi-site retrospective of the work of 1940s artist Thelma Johnson Streat

Bridge Over the River Why's

noreply@portlandspaces.net — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:55:00 -0700

Public-interest Architecture at work: Miguel Rosales’ Milwaukie LRT bridge model is on the move and now it’s your turn to step up.

The National Past-time: Preservation

noreply@portlandspaces.net — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:38:00 -0700

The kerfuffle around Commissioner Leonard’s “child only a mother could love,” Memorial Coliseum hits the national level.

Philistines: 1, Preservationists, 0

noreply@portlandspaces.net — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:34:00 -0700

The Rose trumps the Law: Round One in the grudge match between architectural preservationists and design vulgarians over the former McCall’s Restaurant and Memorial Coliseum, and it would seem the sublime is losing to the ridiculous.

Bases Loaded: What's next for Memorial Coliseum?

noreply@portlandspaces.net — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:25:00 -0700

The fate of Memorial Coliseum. What will happen between now and Wednesday’s City Council vote? Your Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance guide to citizen action.

Politics and the International Style don’t mix.

noreply@portlandspaces.net — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:08:00 -0700

Memorial Coliseum and the Visitors Center become victims of the mid-century political values (obfuscation, greed, and power-mongering) that made them possible in the first place.

International House of Customs

noreply@portlandspaces.net — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:20:00 -0700

The Dept. of Education gives the Customs House to International School. There may be no thing as a free lunch but thank the high heavens for the Surplus Federal Real Property Program!