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Originally Posted by cab
Outstanding. Hope the design commission doesn't dumb it down.
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The Design Commission loved it. They voted on it back in December, and their decision was recorded with Multnomah County in February. Full story here:
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Design Commission lauds Skylab's "fantastic" Burnside Bridgehead tower
BY FRED LEESON
In traditional terms, the dramatic, bold and creative proposal for the long-vacant Burnside Bridgehead block can be described simply as an apartment tower sitting on a podium. But knowing it is Skylab Architecture design means there is absolutely nothing traditional about either major element. Jeff Kovel and a design team that seems allergic to 90-dgree corners hopes to build a 21-story building that will set a high standard for new inner-East Side projects.
Let’s start with the tower. It runs diagonally, angling - from northwest to southeast – across the block immediately north of the Burnside Bridge between Northeast 2nd and 3rd Avenues. The footprint of the tower is basically a parallelogram, but its sides pinch inward slightly on all four frontages to take better advantage of views up and down the Willamette River to the west and Cascade peaks to the east. The tower’s curtain wall of seemingly randomly-placed vertical glass and metal panels grows more glassine as the floors rise and metal panels decrease in number. A gently-angled parapet eliminates those boring 90-degree angles up top.
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EDIT - just realized you might have been talking about the Works project. In which case, yes, the Design Commission could still potentially vote against it. The staff report was however very positive.
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That is truly awful. Is that something people actually say? Usually I just hear it referred to as the: "Inner Eastside" "Eastside Industrial District" "Eastbank" or "Central Eastside". 
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