Apr 18, 2019
Father and son architects create one of the best examples of the enduring allure of modern design.
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Father and son architects create one of the best examples of the enduring allure of modern design.
When Haley Lewis saw a mishmash midcentury modern home for sale, she told her husband to leave. He didn’t.
Check out the five dwellings selected by Restore Oregon to star in its Mid-Century Modern Design Series held May 10-11. The private homes were designed or built by the most influential people in modern architecture in the Pacific Northwest. These early projects and others like them changed the way we live today.
Five famous homes star in Restore Oregon’s soon-to-sell-out Mid-Century Modern Design Series May 10-11.
An op-ed from Portland about the environmental impact of all the recent teardowns.
By Midge Pierce
The greenest house is an existing house.
Lost in the din over demolition is the environmental cost of razing homes. Carbon is stored in the timber and materials of older homes, but it is expended in the harvesting of fresh resources, the manufacturing and delivery of new materials plus the transport of manpower to and from a new building worksite.
The Markham House 3206 NE Glisan
3206 NE Glisan
“It can take over 50 years to offset the materials wasted in demolition,” says Val Ballestrem, education manager at Bosco-Milligan Architectural Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness of the value of older homes. “The notion of building a new, energy efficient house is ludicrous.”
In a city that prides itself on sustainable practices, he says the rise of home demolitions to pre-recession levels is a terrible waste of precious resources. “New buildings start at a point of negative energy. Saving old homes is the most sustainable practice.”