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In the years following 1905 Lewis Clark Centennial Expo, Portland was a veritable boomtown, and the downtown skyline rose in step with the population. The circa 1907 Wells Fargo building reign as the tallest in town lasted but a few short years, when the name Yeon left its first notable imprint on Portland architecture, on the corner of SW 5th Alder.The 15 story Yeon Building, completed a century ago in 1911, came not canada goose coats from the same famous desk as the Watzek House and the Visitors Information Center by John Yeon, but his father, John Baptiste Yeon. The elder Yeon made a fortune in the lumber industry and wanted to give back to his adopted city, something he expected “should help Portland by appearing as well as possible,” wrote The Oregonian on August 21, 1910.Yeon hired San Francisco Reid Reid architects, who had already designed The Oregonian original (pre Belluschi) offices and who would a year later design the Jackson Tower (ne the Oregon Journal Building), to maximize canada goose clearance sale both the terra cotta craze and the city 200 foot height limit. The Reid brothers crafted an exterior of bright white to stand out even more than the cream colored terra cotta popular elsewhere, including Wells Fargo.Yeon Building uk canada goose outlet (photos by Bradley Maule)With a three canada goose story colonnade featuring ionic columns to accentuate the height, the building was topped with a cornice which has since been removed, leaving the armament form seen today. At cheap canada goose uk the behest of Yeon himself, the cornice extended around all four sides of the building (as opposed to only the two which faced the street, as was common), and like the Jackson Tower, had built in electrical wiring for evening accent lighting. The University of Oregon Libraries digital collection has a number of Yeon Building photos prior to the cornice removalYeon Building (photo by Bradley Maule)Higher still than the cornice, a Canada Goose Online rooftop flagpole extended the building pinnacle another 60 feet. It been flag less for years, but Urban Renaissance Group Portland office, who manages the building for New York Jonathan Rose Companies, says there are plans to reinstall a flag as part of the building current renovations being overseen by Portland SERA Architects. The renovations include a green retrofit and a re imagining of the first floor retail space. This space will Canada Goose Coats On Sale be occupied come February by Vancouver based First Independent Bank, who cheap Canada Goose sold the building to Rose Companies after foreclosing on its previous owner, negotiating the retail space as part of the sale.Yeon Building (photos by Bradley Maule)Decades before John Yeon left his indelible mark on the style regarded as Northwest Regional, his father regard for the Northwest region was exemplified perhaps no better than by his financial contribution to and supervision of the historic Columbia River Highway construction. John B Yeon State Park, 30 miles east of Portland in the Gorge, has several hiking trails directly across the river from Beacon Rock. The younger Yeon, among his landscape preservation achievements, purchased a 75 acre riverfront property directly across from Multnomah Falls, and created a landscape of lawns, meadows, wetlands and trails called The Shire (officially now The Shire: John Yeon Preserve for Landscape Studies under the U of O). Fittingly, the Friends of the Columbia Gorge house their offices in the Yeon Building.The one hundred year old Yeon Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. Its ongoing renovation and green retrofit will go even farther toward its preservation.Yeon Building (photos by Bradley Maule)Brad Maule is a photographer Canada Goose Outlet living in canada goose uk black friday Southeast Portland. Now that the economy has rebounded, the building has morphed into a more modest adaptive reuse project. It tempting to find symbolism in the more modest project moving forward, but it arguable what that symbolism might canada goose black friday sale be: of DIY adaptability and perseverance, of local creative class hives taking root throughout the city, or of an architectural dream deferred indefinitely. Luckily, we trading one likable project for another.The Weave building, designed and co developed by Skylab Architecture, was first announced in 2008 a LEED rated, 27 story mixed use tower with residences and office space. Later, the concept was downsized to a ten story office tower with ground floor retail. But by June of last year, the project became stalled as developers and the Portland Development Commission were unsuccessful buy canada goose jacket in finding tenants as the local economy continued to drag.Now, https://www.canadagoosestorevip.com the firm has more modest but practical plans for the site, at West Burnside Street and SW 13th Avenue: the building, an adaptive re use of the existing building. It will include five retail spaces along with second floor office space.The Blackbox renovation isn Canada Goose online nearly as canada goose clearance ambitious as the Weave, nor could it match the canadian goose jacket visual sexiness of the Weave renderings. Even so, principal Jeff Kovel insists that going from Weave to Blackbox isn a step backward, but a practical sidestep. Besides, he adds, the Weave Canada Goose sale isn truly dead.”The Blackbox is the Weave conceptually, just in a smaller package,” he explained by email. “The current market just isn fit for financing a Weave scale building. We have canada goose coats on sale built the Blackbox project in a way as to leave the maximum flexibility in place, so that we will be able to redevelop down the road, should the stars align.””We have shifted our approach to align with a changing market. We canada goose uk outlet have put together a project that is going to have a very positive effect on our urban fabric in a short time frame.”The Blackbox, Kovel explains, is more of a buy canada goose jacket cheap descendent of the successful Alder building that previously won Skylab an AIA/Portland design award and Canada Goose Jackets has been economically successful with tenants like Gruner restaurant.”The vibe at the 12th Alder building is creative and collaborative, in part due to the fact that we constantly surrounded by a few small, like minded businesses like ourselves,” Kovel said in a press release. “We wanted to extend this concept deeper into the West End.”Here is a video uk canada goose Skylab produced to show the Blackbox design:Co developed with a company called Project^, the Blackbox canada goose store tenants will include Swedish urban work wear company Dunderdon, local leatherwear company Tanner Goods, Seattle based menswear boutique Blackbird and women boutique Phlox. 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