I’ve lived on the South Park Blocks for a total of ten years, longer than anywhere I’ve lived in my adult life, and for good reason. My front yard consists of a dozen blocks of parks, planted with neat rows of elms planted in the 1890’s, some so tall that they are higher than my [...]
A hundred thousand protesters are at work in Copenhagen to attack a problem that no amount of science will cure. Only a small percentage of the crowd is American. As protesters look for morale support, they see few Americans not only because the COP15 Summit is in Europe. The US is the world’s largest consumer [...]
I’ve been working up at the mushroom building again this week, and couldn’t help but notice that dozens of dump trucks were descending a nearby road every day, carrying loads of soil and rock, so I decided it was time for CHNN to do some investigative work, especially since I was already undercover in my [...]
Atwater Place, a condominium project in the South Waterfront district near downtown Portland, will tomorrow be auctioning off 40 of the 150 or so units it has failed to sell, at prices starting at a bit less than half of what the 60-odd original buyers paid just two years ago. It’s another victim not just [...]
One of the reasons for my loathing of modern architecture is its relentless utilitarianism; as James Howard Kunstler once wrote, and I paraphrase out of laziness, its schools and libraries fail to convey the higher calling of learning, its courthouses offer no visual cues about the majesty of law, and even its banks fail to [...]
In an earlier post, WT and I were talking about crappy skyscrapers, and mutually decided that some of them were cool. (RIP World Trade Center…)
This one, shown from CHNN Headquarters, and then from the street, is Charles Luckman’s building, formerly the First National Bank Tower, which although derided at the time and since by Ada [...]