Author: Raskin
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Blind Pilot supports The Nature Conservancy
Blind Pilot has done a wonderful video supporting the Nature Conservancy. It is shot in the net shed in Astoria that is out on the Columbia River and a barn in Clatsop County. It speaks of the importance of place, both the landscape and the buildings, and of how this supports the making of musics and…
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Depot Update 11/14
The entry canopy structures are completed. The metal roofing and the gutter between the roof and the building are the next steps. On the west side, the building sign is installed. The building is named the Barbey Maritime Center following a generous donation to the Museum by the Barbey family that have a strong…
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Old is New
The Cool Hunter website has some beautiful photos of modern additions and insertions of new buildings and elements into old historic buildings. In all of them, the new is juxtaposed to the old rather than trying to restore the building to an original state, or reuse a traditional or classical architectural vocabulary. This approach is…
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Schools leading the way
The citizens of Portland voted overwhelmingly to pass a bond measure that upgrades a number of Portland schools. It pays for some basic seismic upgrades on a 26 schools and completely modernizes three high schools and one grade school. It is a first step to the modernization of all Portland’s schools, which at the end…
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Sitka, Lincoln City
After creating a master plan for Sitka Center of Art and Ecology, I designed these two artist residences were the first phase of implementation. These artist residences used to house artists teaching classes or for residencies where artists, writers, musicians, and natural science scholars are given up to 3 1/2 months to conduct their work.…
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Depot Renovation, Astoria
The historic Train Depot in Astoria has been renovated by its current owner, the Columbia River Maritime Museum. The original waiting rooms have become conference and exhibit space, while the baggage building will be used for wood boat building and as a workshop for the Historic Preservation Program at Clatsop Community College.
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Ocean Street, Cannon Beach
This house was a renovation of a 1910 beach house I did a few years back. The basic lines of the house were kept but we enlarged the windows in the dormer and redid the porch that had been heavily modified in the 1970s. The interiors were changed to create a larger kitchen. An addition…
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Depot Update, Astoria
The grout has been cut out from all the joints and the building has been pressure washed. The masons are now pinning the face brick back to the structural brick. Once this is completed they will start re-pointing. The demolition of the interior partitions has been completed and you can see the grandeur of the…
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Adams Street, Cannon Beach
The round window picks up the swoop of the masonry chimney, whose pattern of stones reflects the pattern of the cedar shingles above. Architecture should include delight and this vignette is seen by everyone entering the house.
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Pilot Station, Astoria
This renovation project gave new life to historic waterfront industrial buildings in Astoria. The building changed from industrial use to retail use, but windows and siding were replaced to match the original style and locations. The building was seismically upgraded and has new electrical, plumbing and heating systems. Care was taken to distinguish old from…