The City has approved a Design Review for a project with eight dwelling units at 1532 N Blandena St. The O|8 Townhomes, by Dominek Architecture, comprise of two four-story buildings with a shared courtyard.
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Under Construction: Pearl West (images)
Pearl West, a 230,000 sq ft office building at NW 14th & Irving has been under construction since July. The project is the first new build office building to break ground in the central city since the recession. (Park Avenue West resumed construction in 2013, after being halted in 2009). The building’s design is a collaboration by THA Architecture and GBD Architects. The developer is BPM Real Estate.
19th & Morrison
A building permit was issued on October 31st for a new 51 unit, 4 story apartment building at 1934 SE Morrison St. The design in by Myhre Group, and the developer is UDG, which is the same team behind the apartments at 39th & Tillamook. Completion is slated for 2015.
12|Stark under construction in the West End (images)
12|Stark will be latest addition to Downtown’s West End, which has seen an explosion in retail in recent years. The 1918 building is currently undergoing a major transformation, which includes a seismic upgrade. The project will see the building’s ground floor change from an office use to retail, and will potentially include a roof terrace. As reported by
More images released of 4th & Harrison
As the SW 4th & Harrison student housing project by Core Campus heads to its first Design Advice hearing, more images have been published to the City of Portland website. The lead architect on the project is Hartshorne Plunkard of Chicago, with Myhre Group of Portland acting as Consulting Architects.
The U-shaped building includes 30,000 SF of retail at the first floor, and 14 floors of apartments. Two levels of underground parking are proposed, with 192 spaces, for the use of both the residents and the grocer. Outdoor amenity spaces are provided on the 2nd floor courtyard and on a roof deck at the 15th floor.
Park Avenue West (images)
Anyone who has been near Downtown Portland lately will have noticed the construction of Park Avenue West, a 30 story building rising adjacent to Director Park. The project is the third skyscraper built by TMT Development, whose founder Tom Moyer passed away last week at the age of 95. Previous projects included the 1000 Broadway building, which was completed in 1991, and the Fox Tower, which was completed in 2000.
The tower, designed by TVA Architects, rises to 460′ — the maximum height allowed Downtown by Portland’s zoning code. A spire extends the total height to 501′-7″. The lower two floors will be retail, and the next 15 floors are residential, with 211 apartments. The top 13 floors are offices, whose anchor tenant will be law firm Stoel Rives. The building will be served by 6 levels of underground parking.
39th and Tillamook (images)
Construction is underway for an apartment building at NE 39th and Tillamook in the Hollywood District. The 5 story building, designed by Myhre Group, will have 75 apartments. A rooftop patio for tenants will be provided. The developer is UDG. A building permit for the project was issued in April 2014, and it is scheduled for completion in 2015.
Langano Apartments
The Langano Apartments, a project by Works Partnership Architecture, are under construction at 1445 SE Hawthorne Blvd. A building permit was issued in August for a new four story, 30 unit apartment building with retail space on the ground floor. The project replaces Jarra’s Ethiopian Restaurant and the Langano Lounge, which closed in May. The restaurant’s owners, Petros Jarra and Ainalem Sultessa, retain ownership of the development.
Gariety Apartments approved in Goose Hollow (images)
The Gariety Apartments, a 4 unit infill project at 1807-1811 SW Market St in Goose Hollow, have been approved [PDF] in a Design Review decision by the Bureau of Development Services.
The project, designed by William Tripp, received strong praise in the notice of decision:
The design review process exists to promote the conservation, enhancement, and continued vitality of areas of the City with special scenic, architectural, or cultural value. The proposal meets the applicable design guidelines and therefore warrants approval. The building responds to the variety of its surroundings with a design that references both older adjacent residences and more contemporary multi-dwelling development nearby. It is responsive to the vital mixed- use transit corridor to the north and helps to implement a neighborhood vision for progressive urban growth within the Goose Hollow Neighborhood. With a differentiation of massing responsive to immediate context, a reinforcing of the pervasive front porch culture, ground floor permeability, and an articulation of facades with grade, the building successfully responds to its varied site constraints and opportunities.
Five letters of objection were received during the Design Review. Complaints included the lack of parking, the contemporary design and overall massing of the building.
Images of Grove Hotel released
The first images of the Grove Hotel project have been published on the website of Surround Architecture. (H/T to urbanlife on SkyscraperPage for finding these.) We reported this morning that the architects have requested a Pre-Application Conference to discuss the renovation of the building facing West Burnside St, and construction of a new 9-story, 63,000 square-foot building to replace the building facing NW 4th Avenue.
