On a recent afternoon outside the Portland Building, the massive copper Portlandia statue sitting atop its entrance was still encased in scaffolding—the marine goddess’s outstretched hand poking the edge of its white plastic sheathing—as part of an ongoing $195 million renovation and reconstruction.Despite being a famous landmark designed by architect Michael Graves, and one of the first major Postmodernist buildings in America, the building (owned by the City of Portland) was ultra-value-engineered when it was constructed in the early 1980s, and leaked practically from the start.
Although the ambitious project has raised fundamental questions … The groundbreaking for the renovation of Michael Graves' 1982 iconic Portland Building in Oregon—which houses the administrative offices of the City of Portland—took place on December 2017. Each references the listing on the National Register as background about the building but not maintenance of that status as a specific goal.”So is historic integrity (broadly defined) the city’s mandate for the renovation of the Portland Building, or did it have a duty to maintain the National Register listing by conforming to In fact, the City of Portland never sought National Register status for the building from the National Park Service. In a Work on the retrofit is currently ongoing and is expected to be completed sometime in 2019, six months ahead of schedule.A gathering at the intersection of design, construction, and tech.The premier conference on high-performance building enclosures. While DLR Group is on track to meet the minimum waterproofing and seismic requirements, and to replace most of the building’s heating and cooling systems, several elements were eliminated from the original $195 million budget.
But Postmodernism had a lot of experimental approaches to construction, and there were a lot of failures.
Designed by Michael Graves with Emery Roth & Sons and considered to be among the world’s first public Postmodern buildings, the municipal-services structure’s garlands and colors seemed to be an Oz-like technicolor moment in the dreary movie of monochromatic Modernism. The renovation of the building was initially approved on July 24th, at the project’s second hearing. Keeping punched windows in a concrete shell sets us up for leaks again. Portland Building Company has been delivering superior design and craftsmanship since 1945. The building was nominated in 2011 by a local architect, Peter Meijer. Indeed, the city’s most recognized building has now been given an entirely new facade in a different material. The Portland Building is the City of Portland’s primary office, providing space for around 1,300 employees. A few years ago, the city decided renovation was critical if it was to have any functional future.Although it’s on schedule to reopen at the end of the year, Perhaps most notably, the June 12 audit noted the city was “on track to meet the baseline renovation goals but will fall short of other aspirations.” In particular, “the exterior design chosen to address water leaks will result in the circa-1982 building’s delisting from the National Register of Historic Places.”That actually remains to be seen, for de-listing is a lengthy process that would only commence after construction is complete.
We felt it wasn’t about painted concrete.”The irony of the audit’s release earlier this month was that architects from DLR Group, along with Burke, had just delivered a presentation about the project at the national convention of the American Institute of Architects in Las Vegas.
Brian Libby June 27, 2019, 11:55 AM EDT “The replacement glass is 77 percent.” Because the drop ceilings have been removed and the exposed concrete painted white (Weinheimer calls this postmodern classic “Brutalism in a dress”), surfaces act like a mirror for the sunlight.When city staffers who worked in the original Portland Building have toured in recent weeks, “the change is so dramatic that there’s nobody who is neutral in their response: It’s universally one of awe,” Weinheimer said. We do not want to be back in this situation again.”A third-party consultation in 2016 by Michael D. Lewis, of Ohio-based Facade Forensics, supported the looser approach. current project under construction in south portland.