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Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy

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Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy

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Post by rootusrootus »

jeffbee wrote: post #31
rootusrootus wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

100% agree, the international arrivals area is dreary and depressing. And slow. Get off the plane, go directly to a shuttle bus, drive around a while, then go in and wait in what was clearly never really intended to be an arrivals area. I gather than there are so few international arrivals that it will likely never be upgraded, but I sure would love to see the fancy face scanning electronic passport reader kiosks lik…

It's a miracle that Portland has direct international service at all. They probably had to bodge on the customs area after the place was built to pick up that route to Vancouver. Also good to keep in mind that a lot of older airports seem kludged together because they were. Fifty years ago passengers were screened at the gate. Then they invented central screening. Then they invented TSA and stopped letting non-passen…

I'm very happy they have a direct route to LHR. I wish BA was more pleasant to fly, but at least they're using 787s for the route.

> they invented TSA and stopped letting non-passengers into the terminals

I'd like them to uninvent that. I so fondly remember when family could take you to the gate, and meet you when you came home. Now that planes have impenetrable doors, I don't think we need to keep up the absurd level of "security"

Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy

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Post by Schiendelman »

astrange wrote: post #27
lordofgibbons wrote: post #7

I wish we had more pretty architecture like this in the U.S. Our architecture is so utilitarian/corporate and built at the lowest price and just enough to meet building codes. I get why it is the way it is, but I can still wish.

Much of the issue is that city planners like it that way. The building codes require it, and when they don't, they'll have design review requirements where the planners will make you change it. There's a common modern look called a 5-over-1 which usually looks like a giant box made out of four different colored Lego sets. The random different colors are forced on them by planners who think it provides "articulation".…

You can thank former Seattle CM Sally Clark almost singlehandedly for the articulation bullshit. And a lot of the dumb townhouse rules that made them all identical for a decade.

And you know design review was created by an initiative on an off election? 15% of registered voters voted in favor.

I think design review could be overturned constitutionally. But few people seem to focus on that issue for long enough to learn how to organize around it.

Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy

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Post by rootusrootus »

astrange wrote: post #27
lordofgibbons wrote: post #7

I wish we had more pretty architecture like this in the U.S. Our architecture is so utilitarian/corporate and built at the lowest price and just enough to meet building codes. I get why it is the way it is, but I can still wish.

Much of the issue is that city planners like it that way. The building codes require it, and when they don't, they'll have design review requirements where the planners will make you change it. There's a common modern look called a 5-over-1 which usually looks like a giant box made out of four different colored Lego sets. The random different colors are forced on them by planners who think it provides "articulation".…

> The PNW actually doesn't have these rules, although the rest of the country hasn't noticed yet.

For all our warts, I continue to believe the PNW is the best area of the country to live. I'm obviously biased. But I've lived a lot of places and I keep coming back here.

Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy

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Post by cpitman »

georgeburdell wrote: post #50
im_down_w_otp wrote: post #21

I just flew through there and saw the renovation for the first time, and it is an absolutely stunning transformation. Just incredible. I loved it. The whole thing. From the ceiling to the ticketing islands to the reworked security to the amphitheater style seating areas at the terminal exit where friends & family can await your arrival. It feels spacious, natural, functional, and hospitable.

Please tell me they kept a patch of the iconic carpet around

That went away years ago

Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy

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Post by rootusrootus »

mofunnyman wrote: post #10

Certainly less miserable to look at inside than it was 20 years ago. Much better than the brutalist hell that is most of Portland.

Are we thinking of the same city? Maybe you're thinking of the one on the other coast? I'm not familiar with it, but the Portland in Oregon doesn't have much of anything brutalist about it.

Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy

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Post by rootusrootus »

astrange wrote: post #22
hipadev23 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brutalist hell? It’s a vibrant city interlocked with greenery and flanked by Mt Hood

To be fair, I've been to Portland maybe 3-4 times including a few weeks ago, and this year was the first time I could actually see any of that because it wasn't raining.

You should come visit during summer. June, July, August, and September are typically very sunny and dry, it's a wonderful time of year to be in Portland.

Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy

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Post by andrewf »

georgeburdell wrote: post #50
im_down_w_otp wrote: post #21

I just flew through there and saw the renovation for the first time, and it is an absolutely stunning transformation. Just incredible. I loved it. The whole thing. From the ceiling to the ticketing islands to the reworked security to the amphitheater style seating areas at the terminal exit where friends & family can await your arrival. It feels spacious, natural, functional, and hospitable.

Please tell me they kept a patch of the iconic carpet around

They recreated some. https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2024/04/pdxs-beloved-tea...

There's looottts of the 2015 carpet as well.

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