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Originally Posted by AdamUrbanist
OHSU’s commitment to filling a dense urban neighborhood with above ground parking garages is really disappointing.
Great to hear they’re planning affordable housing though.
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The thing that gets me is that we were sold on SoWa, a considerable public investment, with the caveat that it simply wouldn't be that accessible by private automobile. What traffic study justifies adding another 1200 parking spaces in an above-ground garage? Is there something I'm missing?
Their first garage is one of my top-3 most-hideous new buildings in the city. It's outrageously bad and, worse, it sticks out like a sore thumb from a distance and appears to have zero relationship to the surrounding architecture in a not-good way. The little up-turned fins on the exterior of the garage, the pinstripe effect on the upper levels, they're, to me, the equivalent of rotating NV's axis and sticking those glittery panels on the sides -- lipstick on a pig that only draws your attention to the awfulness that has been done to our urban fabric. I wish they'd gone with a firm like WPA that practices "honesty in architecture" when it comes to above-ground garages. Show us our folly.