Word: graveses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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I'll admit that Michael Graves' new office building in Portland, Ore., is different, but I doubt that it's dangerous [Aug. 23]. Walking through the entrance portals of such a distinctive structure might even put a smile on my face before my second cup of coffee...
Despite some minor eccentricities, Michael Graves' building makes primary that element most wanting in a Bauhaus-inspired glass box: human scale.
Graves' original idea of placing a village of small, temple-like pavilions on the blue-painted top of his building has also been simplified. Still, in its overall effect, the completed building manages to retain the quixotic quality of Graves' early sketches.
But in Portland the citizens and city council were not convinced. "An oversized, beribboned Christmas package," said Pietro Belluschi, 83, a Portland resident who is one of the country's most respected architects. Belluschi, however, later relented and said he was getting used to it. Other objectors persisted, calling...
Graves has since won other important commissions, notably a 27-story corporate headquarters in downtown Louisville, Ky., for Humana Inc., and an addition to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, designed by Bauhaus Architect Marcel Breuer. Yet it remains to be seen whether Graves' heavy...