Jay Raskin Architect

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  • Oregon’s Most Endangered Places

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    I often write about the dangers of a Cascadia earthquake since it will, among other things, damage the historic buildings I have come to know and love.  I also help with preserving these historic buildings from more prosaic risks.  As a regional advisor for the Historic League of Oregon I participate in the review of…

  • Trinity Place Apartments Seismic Upgrade

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    I had the pleasure of touring the Trinity Place Apartments the other day with members of HPLO who had worked on the Resilient Masonry Buildings Roundtable.  The owner of the Trinity Apartments is both an aficionado of Portland’s masonry apartment buildings and very committed to seismically upgrading them. Motivated not only to protect his tenants,…

  • Preserving America’s Historic Barns

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    Preserving America’s Historic Barns Limeworks, an organization that “is committed to providing the resources needed for performing professional masonry restoration and building sustainable structures in an environmentally conscious and sustainable way” produced this video on preserving historic barns.  The video shows photos of barns throughout the Country, with a narration by barn historian Jeff Marshall talking…

  • Old is New

    Old is New

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    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…