Either you have a lot of friends in high places or you've been keeping an epic balcony hidden from the rest of us Portlandians. It's a great enough set that it almost makes me want to come back early.
The vantages are unique, the subject matter is always fascinating--and yet what I'm most noticing in this thread is the raw photographic skill. You've composed some of these photos (especially the one of the Fremont Bridge and the skyline behind the willows) like paintings.
Very well done.
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Thanks everyone! fflint, much appreciated; Sacramentan, I really wish I had a place like that ... it's a condo complex up a steeeeep hill off West Burnside. It's the first exit affter you pass Uptown Shopping Center going west, forgot the name of the condos. I just walked the parking lot and it has all these great vantage points between the buildings.
Either you have a lot of friends in high places or you've been keeping an epic balcony hidden from the rest of us Portlandians. It's a great enough set that it almost makes me want to come back early.
You can't go back to PDX until you post at least one photo thread of Sacramento!
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Portland needs a couple new and taller downtown scrapers; while the amount of infill is stupendous it's all below the treeline or spread around the greater downtown area. The current tallest is starting to bore me to tears...wonder if this will ever happen?
Portland needs a couple new and taller downtown scrapers; while the amount of infill is stupendous it's all below the treeline or spread around the greater downtown area. The current tallest is starting to bore me to tears...wonder if this will ever happen?
Portland is just not a city that builds big nor could the market support a new tallest unless a company relocated from out of state.
On the flip side there is a TON of infill and residential projects going up all around the city in pretty much every neighborhood.
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Portland is a very nice city, like the state of Oregon. I´d really like to visit it. Love those mountains with snow in the distance. Those landscapes must be really beautiful.
Portland needs a couple new and taller downtown scrapers; while the amount of infill is stupendous it's all below the treeline or spread around the greater downtown area. The current tallest is starting to bore me to tears...wonder if this will ever happen?
I know, sometimes I think 'The 1970's called it wants its skyline back' haha. Like JG573 pointed out there is loads of infill going on everywhere -- and ultimately that's the kind of growth that results in a vibrant urban environment. But I still look at South Waterfront, and while it's great to have a brownfield converted into an eco-friendly high-rise district, I would love to have some of those condo towers right DT instead.
great stuff, dtpdx. whettin' my appetite. i've been gone six months and man do i have a serious pdx jones. bummer about that next to last pic, yowza what a nightmare.
love this one -- is it from the riverpark down near johns landing?
Nice thread. I like that pic overlooking the downtown area and that one of all the people jam-packed on the sidewalk with the 5th Ave sign hovering over them - lol, so 'Manhattan-esque".
bummer about that next to last pic, yowza what a nightmare.
love this one -- is it from the riverpark down near johns landing?
Ha! Yeah I didn't even notice that smoke billowing out from the Fremont Bridge until I posted the photo... The Mt. Hood shot was taken from SW Corbett Street over I-5.
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