PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • February 1, 2023
There is much to admire in the Roux Institute’s modified application – the workforce and transportation measures, reduction in retail space, community advisory body, sustainability charter and public open space. An area of concern is the massive scale of the institute’s original application and concept drawings. We must ask: Will the proposed designs understand the context, be authentic to this city and region and reflect our shared values and history? Or will they represent a slavish imitation of high-tech industry campuses elsewhere in the nation, and become yet another windswept repetition of the soulless architecture that abounds in today’s world? ~ Richard Barringer, Portland