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• Architects

  Overland Partners

• Location

  Dallas, TX

• Design Team

  Tim Blonkvist-FAIA (Principal in Charge), Jim Shelton-AIA, , Scott Adams, Bess Swantner, Brad Bailey-AIA, Adam Bush-AIA, Steve Bellanger

• Consultants

  Project Cost Resources, Blum Consulting Engineers, EJES, Jaster Quintanilla (JQ), Lam Partners, 4B Technology, Hughes Associates, WJHW.

• Contractor

  Beck

• Area

  108000.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2010

• Photographs

  Jeffrey Totaro

• Location

  Dallas, TX

• Project Year

  2010

• Photographs

  Jeffrey Totaro

• Area

  108000.0 ft2

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• Architects

  Ricardo Carvalho + Joana Vilhena Arquitectos

• Location

  Douro, 3260 Figueiró dos Vinhos, Portugal

• Design Team

  Joana Vilhena, Ricardo Carvalho, José Roque, José Maria Rhodes Sérgio and Nuno Gaspar

• Structural Consultants

  Multilayer

• Mechanical, Hydraulic and Electricity Consultants

  Multilayer and Sunductil

• Building Contractor

  Figueiredo & Figueiredo Lda.

• Area

  1600.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2012

• Photographs

  Nuno Gaspar

• Location

  Douro, 3260 Figueiró dos Vinhos, Portugal

• Project Year

  2012

• Photographs

  Nuno Gaspar

• Area

  1600.0 m2

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The Portland Building, by architect and product designer Michael Graves, is considered the first major built work of Postmodernist architecture. The design, which displays numerous symbolic elements on its monumental facades, stands in purposeful contrast to the functional Modernist architecture that was dominant at the time. As Graves explains of his architecture: it’s “a symbolic gesture, an attempt to re-establish a language of architecture and values that are not a part of modernist homogeneity.”

Read more about this controversial building after the break... 

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