Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy

Post by Der_Einzige » Fri, Dec 06, 2024, 8:00 AM UTC

rootusrootus wrote: post #53

astrange wrote: post #27

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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.

Post by fakedang » Fri, Dec 06, 2024, 8:39 AM UTC

samcheng wrote: post #107

swalling wrote: post #66

The wood is pretty, but as someone who uses this terminal, the key improvement is that they raised the ceiling and significantly increased the amount of natural light. Here's a good photo of what it looked like before: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portland_Internation... The major functional drawback is that wayfinding for both arrivals and departures is much worse. The overall flow of foot traffic is way…

Does any of the famous carpet still remain? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_International_Airport...

Post by ralfd » Fri, Dec 06, 2024, 8:50 AM UTC

swalling wrote: post #66

The wood is pretty, but as someone who uses this terminal, the key improvement is that they raised the ceiling and significantly increased the amount of natural light. Here's a good photo of what it looked like before: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portland_Internation... The major functional drawback is that wayfinding for both arrivals and departures is much worse. The overall flow of foot traffic is way…

Post by bobthepanda » Fri, Dec 06, 2024, 9:05 AM UTC

lotsofpulp wrote: post #91

brailsafe wrote: post #25

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I suppose with such a large investment though, they'd want to plan for that possibly changing eventually, no? I'd be flying from/to Canada anyway, but if it was a viable and better option compared to others like SF, they'd get my business instead, not that there's much business to give

At 2.5M people, Portland, Oregon metro probably cannot support many international routes (except Vancouver). And it has very few businesses that would necessitate international business travel. Maybe a flight to Japan, London, mainland Europe, and Mexico.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 06, 2024, 9:14 AM UTC