A Skyline-Changing Pair of Towers Proposed in Portland

A "once-in-a-generation" redevelopment plan, called for in Portland's Central City 2035 Plan, has inspired big thinking from architects and planners.

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February 20, 2018, 1:00 PM PST

By James Brasuell @CasualBrasuell


"Portland, Oregon–based William Kaven Architecture (WKA) has revealed the full vision behind the firm’s eye-catching proposal to add a pair of interlinked high rise towers to downtown Portland’s 32-acre mixed-use Broadway Corridor site," reports Antonio Pacheco.

The article includes renderings and a plan view of the Broadway Corridor project—the two interlinked towers anchor a "neat grid of mid-rise structures surrounding the expaanded [sic] greenway, with a site plan indicating that the new developments will be connected by a new underground transit station."

The proposal was created in response to an RFQ released by the economic redevelopment agency Prosper Portland in October 2015.

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