Cloepfil's Anne Sachs building in NW Portland

Tonight, local starchitect Brad Cloepfil will be the guest for Portland Spaces' bright lights discussion series. It all goes down at 6:00 at Jimmy Mak's, no cover... Doors open at 5:30 (get there early). Will Cloepfil and Gragg jam out? ....on kazoo's? ...or at least have a drummer for wise-ass rimshots?


Latest (completely design deficient) image of I-5 replacement bridge crossing

Let's hope the increasingly bleak design outlook for the I-5 interstate bridge is addressed. We need a serious architect to shepherd this increasingly penny-wise pound foolish project... the only way to insure the billions of dollars spent on the largest new bridge project on the west coast doesn't simply become a XXL overpass. How about UN, Hadid, Foster, Piano, Gehry or even local boy? Any architect would LOVE a project like this and when you've got a 6-10 billion dollar project there's definitely room of design. Sadly they are trying to make it cost only 4 but that is an idiot's game... it has to have light rail, great pedestrian and bicycle friendly access and strong design to insure it will suit those using it 60 years from now. Besides the Columbia river deserves a great bridge (current one doesn't have the capacity or even safety in a major earthquake).

More on the talk tonight here.