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Portland Building

The Portland Building, alternatively referenced as the Portland Municipal Services Building, is a 15-story municipal office building located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland, Oregon. Built at a cost of US$29 million, it opened in 1982 and was considered architecturally groundbreaking at the time.

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1982

Portland, Portland, United States

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Portland Building in Portland, United States

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Historic building in Portland, Oregon, U.S.

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Michael Graves

1934-2015 · Princeton, New Jersey, United States

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Michael Graves was an American architect, designer, and educator, and principal of Michael Graves and Associates and Michael Graves Design Group. He was a member of The New York Five and the Memphis Group and a professor of architecture at Princeton University for nearly forty years. Following his own partial paralysi…

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Michael Graves Architecture & Design

practice · Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Role: designer

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