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Brian Emerick's design of the Porter Glisan building renovation at Northwest 12th Avenue and Glisan Street gives the building a modern flare without stripping the past.
The Pearl District has radically changed since the days of this building, so we wanted to respect its industrial heritage," said Emerick.
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Other attempts have been made to revitalize the structure since the house lights dimmed for the last time in 1979, from homegrown initiatives to a venture funded by the Armand Hammer exhibition of paintings in the city's Heritage State Park in 1987. Designed at first to be, in Sanders' words, a "Broadway-style" theater, the Victory was, over the years, slowly turned into a movie house, to reflect changing tastes in entertainment. The Show Must Go On The Victory's history went on to mirror its home city, and declining fortunes led ultimately to the theater's closing its doors for the last time in 1979.
... into the important first steps of architectural evaluation. Those initial funds removed asbestos a... of Boston and Architectural Heritage Foundation, two firms with a successful history of historic r...
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The Architectural Heritage Center/Bosco-Milligan Foundation plans to celebrate its 20-year commitment to historic preservation with the inaugural Preservation in Action Award.
The Preservation in Action Award will be given at the Foundation's "Riches of a City" Heritage Auction on Oct. 18.
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Harry Goldby left the city he called home almost 25 years ago, but his legacy of financially supporting the historic and ethnic backgrounds of Pittsburgh continued.
Mr. Goldby's contributions include the Nationality Rooms Program at the University of Pittsburgh, where his donations enabled Director Maxine Bruhns to create videos of the rooms, which attract visitors from all over the world.
... a Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation fund in his name to support the foundation's progr... for children, that emphasize the architectural heritage of the city. "Harry was a past Living Lan...
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If you go
Discovering Edgar Lazarus: A Closer Look at a Legendary Portland Architect
...Where: Architectural Heritage Center, 701 S.E. Grand Ave., Portland. Co... April 9 by the Architectural Heritage Foundation, will focus on Lazarus' life, achievements and cul...
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To: STATE EDITORS
Contact: Lydia Kremer of Vortex Public Relations, +1-760-322- 2502, for California Preservation Foundation
...In 2004 Rypkema established Heritage Strategies International, a new firm created to pr... in the citys most historic and architecturally significant venues. CPFs 34th Annual Conference in...
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The Totem Pole Marina building on North Marine Drive along the Columbia River has served as a boat showroom since 1960. The mid- century building is considered historically and architecturally significant, in part because of its distinctive roof.
But the building, also known as Pier 99, is in the way of the Columbia River Crossing project, which recently was approved by Metro. Now, demolition is imminent.
..., education manager for the Architectural Heritage Foundation. He doesn't expect the loss of the buil...
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Maine's ambitious plan to weatherize all existing homes over the next 20 years has a big hole: With limited money, it's cost- effective only to make upgrades that will cut average energy use by 25 percent to 30 percent.
What would it take to slice consumption by half, or even three- quarters?
... insulating and sealing a home's walls, foundation and ceiling to levels where very little warm air e... that attempt to honor the home's architectural heritage. The stone-foundation cellar will be line...
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LONG BEACH - Ask Doug Otto about 2011 and he sums it up succinctly as "quite a year.
For family, friends and colleagues of the Long Beach lawyer, local activist and historian, that view, while technically accurate, is quite the understatement.
... past president of both the Long Beach Foundation for Architectural and Cultural Heritage and Long B...
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E. Doyle makes me glad I grew up in Portland.
Doyle's architectural style, derived from influential trips he made to Europe in the early 1900s, opened my eyes to the world of design.
... a lecture Saturday at the Architectural Heritage Foundation, author Philip Niles recounted that Doy...