Central Eastside News - Page 86

RainDog · #**1701** Posted **Jun 7, 2017, 1:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by maccoinnich

Drawings [10MB] and Staff Report, which recommends approval, for 306 SE 8th Ave.

I'm a sucker for both brick and sharp corner buildings.

This looks great.

2oh1 · #**1702** Posted **Jun 7, 2017, 3:22 AM**

I like it - especially if the black accents that frame the windows are real rather than somebody taking liberties with the renderings. Those kinds of little details make a big difference in my opinion. I'm also a sucker for a nicely defined roofline, which this has. And I especially love that rounded corner. Thumbs up!

mmeade · #**1703** Posted **Jun 7, 2017, 4:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by AcmeGreg

The "crazy" paint job has been an integral component of this building from the get-go. Can't wait to see what the muralist comes up with. Without it you'd have to change the name to the Plain White Dumbbell, and I think we're all agreed the last thing we need in this town is a building named after our esteemed Attorney General.

The Painting has begun! Sorry for the poor image, I was stopped very briefly in traffic. The whole facade looks like a paint by number, with lines drawn in pencil and colors called out with letters and numbers.

RainDog · #**1704** Posted **Jun 7, 2017, 4:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by AcmeGreg

Can't wait to see what the muralist comes up with.

The design is already completed.

NESteve · #**1705** Posted **Jun 7, 2017, 5:29 PM**

Ok. I've been hard on the dumbbell in the past because IMO its a design probably lifted from downtown Bikini Bottom (too many Sponge Bob Squarepants episodes)...

However, with the gloomy, oppressive architecture of Yard, 419, and G/E's upcoming fugly mass on the Fishel's site...at least this project is adding quite a bit of visual interest to the area. Fair Haired Dumbbell is preventing Lower Burnside from becoming Pearl 2.0. Thank you, Cavenaugh, thank you.

AcmeGreg · #**1706** Posted **Jun 9, 2017, 4:25 PM**

...at least this project is adding quite a bit of visual interest to the area. Fair Haired Dumbbell is preventing Lower Burnside from becoming Pearl 2.0. Thank you, Cavenaugh, thank you.[/QUOTE]

Indeed. I love the fact that people will either love this or hate it, but it won't be ignored (Portland Building 2.0?). A whimsical, dare I say Gaudi-esque splash of shape and color!

maccoinnich · #**1707** Posted **Jun 19, 2017, 10:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by maccoinnich

Drawings [10MB] and Staff Report, which recommends approval, for 306 SE 8th Ave.

Project was approved on Thursday.

maccoinnich · #**1708** Posted **Jul 7, 2017, 7:42 PM**

Latest drawings [47 MB] for Alder.9.

cityscapes · #**1709** Posted **Jul 7, 2017, 8:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by maccoinnich

Latest drawings [47 MB] for Alder.9.

Since this is going to be 9 floors instead of the usual 6, I wonder what type of construction this will be.

maccoinnich · #**1710** Posted **Jul 7, 2017, 9:52 PM**

post-tensioned concrete

maccoinnich · #**1711** Posted **Jul 10, 2017, 7:23 PM**

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Photos: Jupiter rising on East Burnside

A six-story hotel under construction on East Burnside Street will serve as an expansion of the Jupiter Hotel, a motor inn located one block west across Southeast Ninth Avenue. Yorke & Curtis is building the 67-room hotel, which was designed by Works Progress Architecture.

The building’s ground floor will contain a restaurant, lobby and programming space, the second floor will feature a lounge, meeting room, banquet hall, and outdoor garden space, and the guest rooms will be on floors three through six. The structure has two floors of post-tensioned concrete on a slab-on-grade foundation, and floors three and above will be wood-framed.

The building will be mostly clad in asphalt shingle panels manufactured by Portland-based Malarkey Roofing Products. Construction on the project began late last year, and is slated for completion at the end of this year.

...continues at the DJC (no paywall).

pdxtraveler · #**1712** Posted **Jul 10, 2017, 7:38 PM**

Did the Delta just finally get a building permit? 22 SE 11th? I have been looking forward to this!

maccoinnich · #**1713** Posted **Jul 10, 2017, 7:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by pdxtraveler

Did the Delta just finally get a building permit? 22 SE 11th? I have been looking forward to this!

yes

MarkDaMan · #**1714** Posted **Jul 11, 2017, 2:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by pdxtraveler

Did the Delta just finally get a building permit? 22 SE 11th? I have been looking forward to this!

Newly fenced off with excavation starting!

robocop · #**1715** Posted **Jul 14, 2017, 10:15 PM**

Quick video showing some up close shots of Fair-Haired Dumbbell being painted.

https://vimeo.com/225575646

maccoinnich · #**1716** Posted **Jul 15, 2017, 11:43 PM**

maccoinnich · #**1717** Posted **Jul 15, 2017, 11:45 PM**

maccoinnich · #**1718** Posted **Jul 15, 2017, 11:45 PM**

downtownpdx · #**1719** Posted **Jul 16, 2017, 2:25 AM**

I like the Dumbell, I'm surprised to say. It adds a nice splash of color and whimsy to the area, and sorry to beat the same drum again but it's a nice contrast to the Yard as well. Feels very European to me.

tworivers · #**1720** Posted **Jul 16, 2017, 4:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by downtownpdx

I like the Dumbell, I'm surprised to say. It adds a nice splash of color and whimsy to the area, and sorry to beat the same drum again but it's a nice contrast to the Yard as well. Feels very European to me.

I like it --agree about the color-- but it's definitely not the graphic that I would have chosen. Maybe I'm just getting old. I'll be sure to swing by next time I've dropped a bunch of acid, though.