by Marisa | Aug 15, 2022 | Architectural Features, Builder Feature, Places
PDX has reigned America’s Best Airport for nearly a decade, recently dropping to #2 in 2020, just under the Indiana International Airport. However, Portland hopes to regain the title with the expansion of the PDX main terminal, designed by ZGF Architecture Firm....
by Marisa | Jul 15, 2020 | Architectural Features, contemporary modern, Places
There’s major development happening in Kenton! But it might not be the type you’ve been seeing elsewhere around the city. In April 2020, Kenton welcomed Portland’s newest LISAH project, Argyle Gardens! L.I.S.A.H. LISAH— or Low Income Single Adult...
by Marisa | Jun 9, 2020 | Architectural Features, Mid Century Modern, Modern Homes, Places
Barbara Fealy—A beloved landscape architect who was fondly known as the “matriarch of landscape architecture” in the Pacific Northwest. She was a favorite collaborator of the likes of John Storrs and Saul Zaik and many other famed architects and designers in the...
by Marisa | May 4, 2020 | Architectural Features, Art, Mid Century Modern, Places
The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man’s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence. – Eero Saarinen Eero Saarinen was a Finnish American architect and industrial designer, and a pioneer of bringing in elements of...
by Marisa | Apr 23, 2020 | Architectural Features, Art, Mid Century Modern, Places
Angela Danadjieva was born in 1931, in Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia. After World War II, she studied architecture at Bulgaria’s State University and graduated with a degree in 1960. After graduating, Danadjieva went to work for a Bulgarian state film company, as a...
by Marisa | Apr 7, 2020 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern, Places
Pietro Belluschi is our city’s most acclaimed and accomplished architect as well as one of the great American modernists of the 20th century. Over the course of his career, Belluschi participated in the design of more than 1,000 buildings, in the Pacific Northwest and...
