The Portland Building is considered one of the first postmodern buildings in the US, perhaps second only to the AT&T in NYC. "When first completed, this postmodern landmark was wildly innovative and controversial. On the varied facades of this chunky 15-story municipal office building, speckled with smallish square windows, masses of deep colors--browns, blues, and a rusty red--make emphatic statements against a sandy background. A stylized garland of blue ribbons (rendered in concrete) decorates one side while a huge statue of a woman, Portlandia, added in 1985, dominates the main entrance." Source: Sylvia Hart Wright. Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture: From Postwar to Postmodern. p. 39. *** "The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head." Source: Michael
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The Portland Building is considered one of the first postmodern buildings in the US, perhaps second only to the AT&T in NYC. "When first completed, this postmodern landmark was wildly innovative and controversial. On the varied facades of this chunky 15-story municipal office building, speckled with smallish square windows, masses of deep colors--browns, blues, and a rusty red--make emphatic statements against a sandy background. A stylized garland of blue ribbons (rendered in concrete) decorates one side while a huge statue of a woman, Portlandia, added in 1985, dominates the main entrance." Source: Sylvia Hart Wright. Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture: From Postwar to Postmodern. p. 39. *** "The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head." Source: Michael
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