The Asa | 16 floors | Complete

[bvpcvm]

that makes sense. oh well. i was hoping that the lovejoy would be 17 extra-tall stories.

[philopdx]

Progress on The Lovejoy:

[Castillonis]

Thanks philopdx. It is a relief to have someone else posting good photos. I used to hurry about taking photos of the different sites. I want to concentrate on getting better images and more pertinent info.

I have been working on a Portland night video, but it has been difficult since I have not used my camera for a while. It's also hard to shoot video alone. I end up getting a poor shots since I am not able to do two things at once.

[bvpcvm]

at this point it looks MUCH larger in person than it does in the renderings.

[sopdx]

You do a great job!

I must say, the smaller portion of of the lovejoy with the shed roofs, look particularly heinous.

[dkealoha]

Originally Posted by sopdx

You do a great job!

I must say, the smaller portion of of the lovejoy with the shed roofs, look particularly heinous.

Yes... look at the siding. Is that corrugated metal?

[MarkDaMan]

I can't wait to see the Lovejoy completed. The rendering made the building look absolutely hideous, and for whatever reason I'm salivating at a building soooo bad it will push the rest of the developers and architects never to do something that horrible again. Kinda like the Portland Building.

I'd love it if nobody rented because of the ugly nature...but the Louisa rented well...

[Castillonis]

Lovejoy building 1024x762


NOTE: I took the photos of this image at 19:35 on Fri 22Feb08.
tripod, 1/80, f/5.6, ISO 200, Av, bracket -2,0 stop HDR, level, color, curve, hue, adjustments, noise reduction
Can hardly wait for new camera + lens

[Castillonis]

Lovejoy building 937x1024


NOTE: I took this photo of the Lovejoy building at 21:19 on Fri 22Feb08.
tripod, 1.0 sec, f/5.6, ISO 200, 7mm x fov crop factor, crop lens flare, noise reduction, levels

[Okstate]

In that photo by Cas in the daytime, is that fire coming out of those poles?

[Dougall5505]

omg the lovejoy is ugly in the worst kind of way

[bvpcvm]

iirc when the first renderings showed up people were pretty supportive - the safeway building they did definitely pan.

[philopdx]

Taken 2-23-08

[onebulgar]

Originally Posted by Dougall5505

omg the lovejoy is ugly in the worst kind of way

The base of the building looks like a luxury trailer park/mobile home

[Castillonis]

Thanks Philopdx for all of the photo updates.

I drove by these constructions sites today with my daughter and was amazed by the amount of progress as well.

[MarkDaMan]

oh my guys...no more...that is horrid!

I is curious about the fire on the poles as well?

[Sioux612]

That's so damn hideous!

[tworivers]

I don't think it looks that bad, so far. Cheap, maybe, but not surprisingly so for a corporate profit-squeezing developer. You want to talk hideous, just wait until the parking garage next door starts getting wrapped up!

Nothing --well, almost-- could be worse in terms of exterior design than the Wyatt IMO.

[cab]

The wyatt isn't that bad. Basically the owner asked the architects to actually pay attention to the small details, not a strength of today's architects since they don't speak "details". Looks like they piled on as many different things as they could find. Its kind of fun in its so obvious failed effort.

As for the lovejoy and parking garage, forget it. I cannot believe an architectural firm is actually going to get paid for this. If the owner wanted to save he could have had a few 18 year old free architectural interns design something better. What's worse is this beast flew through design review.

[zilfondel]

These projects make me think that the design review board is a total failure. I mean, they blocked the Apple store, Kurisu project, and approved these.

I'm tempted to say be done with all of it, but then the neighborhoods would probably get the entire city rezoned as single-family one-story dwellings on 1/4 acre lots.