National Music Centre concept from Allied Works on Vimeo. Brian Libby writes on his Portland Architecture blog that Allied Works, a Portland architectural firm, has won the design competition for the new National Music Centre in Calgary. It’s a striking structure, and looks like something that would easily fit into the tight blocks of downtown
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There have been several proposals concerning what to do with the architecturally important Memorial Coliseum in the Rose Quarter, including tearing it down to make way for a minor league baseball stadium and building a state of the art velodrome inside its gossamer shell. I’ve always mentioned to anyone that would listen that it would
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Back in the boom years of the dot-com bubble, technology start-ups bloomed like weeds in a vacant lot. They marketed premises, and sometimes only even just their names, and got tons of funding for just the idea of being something. We all know what happened to 99% of those corporations. Here in Portland, we’ve got
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(AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski) This afternoon the Berlin Philharmonie, the renowned (both acoustically and visually) concert home of the Berlin Philharmonic, had its roof catch fire due to (purportedly) a welding mishap. The full extent of the damage is not yet known, but according to the Times, the Berlin fire service reports that the main auditorium
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Denver is exploring the possibility of building a new hall to replace the mediocre-at-best Boettcher Concert Hall. As I read the article published today in the Denver Post – I noticed some similarities to the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall: The shortcomings of the 29-year-old facility in the Denver Performing Arts Complex are many and varied,
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