Monthly Archives: March 2015

The Dream of the 80s is Alive in Portland. Just.

Posted on March 13, 2015 by cosmopolitanscum

A week before the death of Michael Graves, Portland City Council was locked in complex discussions in how to fund the refurbishment of his most famous work, The Portland Building. Home to a fair chunk of the city’s municipal administration, … Continue reading →

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You’re The Only Star in Heaven

Posted on March 6, 2015 by cosmopolitanscum

Jan Kaplicky’s drawings for NASA of the International Space Station are a triumph of that period in history in which our most expansive, ambitious infrastructure, the one that slipped the surly bonds of earth into space, was first conceived by … Continue reading →

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