My go-to site. Although I wish the images were smaller and each project (weekly updates) had an image of it rather than just text. The format at placesovertime was perfect but not nearly as updated as NextPortland.
There was an article about the guy who runs NextPortland, Iain MacKenzie, in the DJC. Pretty cool that he does it in his spare time.
can't believe how touristy Portland is now. Everyone's doing the whole Bike Tour/Voodoo or Bluestar donuts. On my flight back home last night, there were at least 7 or 8 people who brought Voodoo or Blue Star donut boxes here.
Maybe they're not yet, but they will be. I don't pay that much attention, not my thing, but I remember something from months ago saying they would be. Several Portland staples are coming to PDX. That being said, I know many people that hit it up on their way to PDX when leaving town. Kinda like I'd hit In-N-Out before leaving Cali back in the day.
My bad. I also thought there was a VD at PDX. Just skimmed the article. The Evelyn Wood Speed Reading System is wearing off in old age....
North East Portland has been booming for the past five years or so -- their freedom of design is much looser than downtown. I like this (gentrification) district. This project has been given the green light:
I get motion sickness just looking at the monstrosity. Having said that, it has a tad bit more character than those (usually orange) shit boxes they're throwing up on Division and Williams.
I sort of like this one, but I have a feeling that most of these asymmetric-window multi-color buildings that are going up now will looked upon in 10 or 20 years as awful. But what do I know. Maybe this is the golden age of architecture. barfo
