Portland Building - Wikipedia
WEBThe Portland Building, alternatively referenced as the Portland Municipal Services Building, is a 15-story municipal office building located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland, Oregon. Built at a cost of US$29 million, it opened in 1982 and was considered architecturally groundbreaking at the time.
The Portland Building
WEBDesigned by renowned architect Michael Graves, the Portland Building was constructed in 1982 as administrative offices for the City of Portland. It is an award-winning example of postmodern architecture and home to the iconic Portlandia statue, which gazes down at visitors along Fifth Avenue.
AD Classics: The Portland Building / Michael Graves
WEBJul 28, 2013 · The Portland Building, by architect and product designer Michael Graves, is considered the first major built work of Postmodernist architecture. The design, which displays numerous symbolic ...
The Portland Building – Michael Graves
WEBThe competition-winning Portland Building – controversial because of its bold forms, colors, and ornament – has been considered the first built building associated with Postmodernism and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Postmodernism in architecture: Michael Graves' Portland Building - Dezeen
WEBSep 12, 2015 · When the Portland Municipal Services Building designed by Michael Graves opened in 1982, architectural Postmodernism gained a new level of prominence in the US.
Portland Building - The Oregon Encyclopedia
WEBThe Portland Public Service Building, known as the Portland Building, is one of Oregon's best-known and most controversial works of architecture. Constructed in 1982, the building is credited with being the design that established Michael Graves as a prominent architect and that helped define the American Post-Modern style.
The Portland Building | The City of Portland, Oregon
WEBThe Portland Building. Designed by Michael Graves and built in 1982 as administrative offices for the City of Portland, the Portland Building is an award-winning example of Post Modern architecture.
The Portland Building - DLR Group
WEBThe Portland Building is a 15-story high-rise building accommodating approximately 1,400 workers primarily with city bureaus and Multnomah County offices. The historic building originally designed by Michael Graves is approximately 360,000 SF plus a …
Michael Graves' Portland Building - The Architectural Review
WEBSeen from across the Willamette River, the Public Services Building must compete for attention with the rapidly growing number of sleek towers in Portland’s downtown. Its squatness sets it apart, but it is the colour of the keystone in particular that stands out, mimicking the warm, brown tones of some of Portland’s older buildings.
Michael Graves: The Portland Building at 25
WEBGraves’ first built public project—and the first major public building designed in a postmodernist idiom—the Portland Building elicited praise and criticism, immediately becoming an icon of ’80s postmodernism.