Next Portland

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Every week, the Bureau of Development Services publishes lists of Early Assistance applications, Land Use Reviews and Building Permits processed in the previous week. 1 loading zone. No Mechanical with this permit. We publish the highlights. This post covers September 13th, 2021 to September 19th, 2021. 1 Building.

Permits 65

Permits Urban Development Utilities Zoning 65

Community Architect Daily

JANUARY 19, 2024

In recent years planners have become much more aware of the exclusionary effects that zoning has had on people and their towns and cities. The old zoning separated neatly housing from everything else presumably in the interest of public health. Dismantling the legacy zoning system is no small task.

Zoning 87

Zoning Masterplanning Commercial Residential 87

BD+C

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Public housing “often gave anonymity and feelings of isolation to people living in those high-rises,” says Liebman, who was the chief of architecture for the New York State Urban Development Corporation (now Empire State Development) from 1969–1975.

Housing 104

Housing Residential Government Permits 104

Community Architect

APRIL 20, 2024

No tall building would be permitted on the waterfront except for the eventually constructed Ian Pei designed World Trade Center The waterfront would be protected as parks, public areas with a wide promenade. This development has a lot to do with the concept of the right to the city. Some had seen decline coming. Federal Dept.

Contract 111

Contract Development Developer Cities 111

Architizer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

I was always intrigued by Christopher Alexander’s pattern language #160 “Building Edge” in which he implores us to “treat the edge of the building as a ‘thing,’, a ‘place,’ a zone with volume to it, not a line or interface with no thickness.”

Housing 63

Housing Design Residential Consulting 63

Architizer

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The design of West End Square grew in response to the local community’s needs, balancing a rich organic terrain, evocative of the Texas Blackland Prairies, with events spaces and socializing zones imbued with a remarkable technological infrastructure.

Space 83

Space Project Masterplanning Landscape 83