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Game changer. Portland is now on the map.

I took this picture in Boston last summer (on the left) and got many Likes for it on the Boston blog. I had eaten dinner in the North End, then walked across the incredibly designed Rose Kennedy Greenway. Post Office Park might feel the same. Let's do this.

The more I look at this new tower proposal, and think about what it represents for the city, the more I like it. I'm now good with the funny crown. Google images of Stockholm, Sweden's skyline. It's basically the same thing going on here, the tall tower (or church steeple) dominating the...

There's a bad a** coming to town... And he means business.

Thank God the PPH has missed this story. But they will eventually "find" it. Someone post something with the "hat" gone and maybe that will help. East Brown Cow, those on this blog know how fast this city can gang up and ruin something. Be like Redfern. They did not release any images of their...

I’d lose all of the canopy overhang. Remember when the 4 Miami-looking towers design appeared for the Federated project? Total fail and the project was killed. You never get a second chance at a first impression. The Hancock Tower works in Back Bay because it reflects the sky and all the old...

They will have to change the crown and maybe lop off a few floors. It does look a bit funny sitting there like that. The comments on social media now (140 so far on the Old Port IG page and these people are younger) are mostly negative. When the PPH story comes out tonight, I’m guessing 70-80%...

If this happens in this way, I’ll be at that rooftop restaurant and bar the day it opens. Great post, brother. Portland is no longer a dinky town, or as seen by outsiders, after this thing goes up.

USM garages are a 5 min walk with over 2,000 spaces.

Hey, this is actually happening. Tomorrow is the first home game at Fitzpatrick. Many seats will have backs and the soccer field is a real one, top of the line artificial, and so not football field markings! True soccer. But I'm kinda really awaiting the Bissell Beer Garden and the food trucks...

This is a great idea, an aviation soiree. I love this new building and plaza. And when Miyake opens his new restaurant and grocery here, I'm just so there. Japanese food and aviation. I like that scene.

It's time for an urban renewal for this area, or at least a deep cleaning. The Preble Street Resource Center needs to go somewhere else, or not down the street from the high school. The hit job NY Times article from 3 weeks ago had many pics of the addicts and miscreants in front, and not just...

With the building purchase and renovation, it comes to $35 million. Yet again, this once marvelous public market is being gutted to become something else. I would have bought a warehouse in Bayside for this use case. It would have been a kind of open canvas renovation, so easier to do this way...

I keep saying this over and over again. Good or great architecture is primarily about improving the user experience. In this case it has done that. The same goes for humans, too. The exterior is hopefully nice to have and look at, but if the inside and use case fails than what really do you have?

Portland needs to fix or significantly help it's homeless and street drug problems with inventive housing and drug addiction programs. Did you read the NY Times hit job article on Portland from 2 weeks ago? I seriously thought that the two young cub reporters were thinking that they were...

I'd go with a muted orange or a Thornton Academy maroon (with a gold window accent) for this one.

I'd like to see more on this idea for Portland. Use an existing structure (the affordable and bland housing complex behind the current Roux, for one) and add a little color and build an addition that looks different, but complements. This one is in Camden. Everything older and existing doesn't...

And yet another redo for Copley Square and I'm not liking it. Where is the green area (artificial works just fine) that is so prominent today for kids to run around on? Any water spouts? They like that feature too. That's fun to watch. Oh, so this is a redo for adults and not kids, just for...

Where did you hear that the patriarch owner of the firm would be attending? If so, it's a notable gesture. Safdie is a TOP international arch firm with offices in Somerville (Boston), Singapore, Shanghai, Jerusalem, and Toronto. He's coming to Portland? The plan was originally to gut many of the...

Although, if you took that dirty limestone frame and painted it in a deep glossy black, then put a giant searchlight on the roof with a bat wings shaped gobo, now you got something.