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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Build Out / Green One is Silver, the Other Gold

Posted by Sarah Mirk on Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:45 PM

Tough news for editorial boards who want to raze Memorial Coliseum. As reported on OPB, the 49-year-old building is headed for National Historic Register designation, which will mean any group looking to demolish the Coliseum will have to jump through a difficult new set of hoops. What's not clear is whether the designation will cover the whole building or just the outside — some redevelopment ideas include scrapping the interior bowl.

Meanwhile, downtown plans are in the works for an ultra-modern building: Portland Architecture has the first full rendering I've seen of the planned Oregon Sustainability Center.

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The website for the 250-foot tall building proposed to take up the city block between SW 4th and 5th Ave at Harrison and Montgomery has a bunch of cool design ideas for how to make the structure water independent and zero energy impact.

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Zero energy impact? What does that mean?
Posted by D on July 2, 2009 at 1:04 PM · Report
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It generates as much energy as it uses.
Posted by AMA on July 2, 2009 at 1:16 PM · Report
3
Great, now we'll be stuck with that deteriorating pile of crap forever. Thanks, dickheads. We ought to garnish the salary of anyone who supports this in order to support that building.
Posted by mr. voluptuous on July 2, 2009 at 2:55 PM · Report
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Really Mr Voluptuous???? Really?

If you pulled your head out of your arse, you realize that the proposal for this building is one of a kind and would be first building with a carbon neutral footprint. It's moments like this when I realize how Portland is a SMALL town.
Posted by urbandiatribe on July 2, 2009 at 3:28 PM · Report
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i think mr. voluptuous is referring to the memorial coliseum in his comment. even so, he still needs to pull his head out of his ass. or arse. whatever.
Posted by eric cantona on July 2, 2009 at 4:02 PM · Report
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The coliseum needs to go. Historical my ass, it's an ugly piece of shit. Maybe they can blow it up for 4th of July to replace Washington's absent fireworks show.
Posted by matt on July 2, 2009 at 5:09 PM · Report
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Lets take a page from Vegas. Blow that old ugly shit up/down.
Posted by Ritchie on July 3, 2009 at 12:35 AM · Report

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