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The new Public Service Building in Portland, Ore., is nearly completed-on schedule and within budget. Yet the storm of controversy the building has raised is likely to rage long after its official dedication on Oct. 2. The issue is style. With this one brazen gesture, the architect, Michael Graves...
The trouble is that Graves' zeal to overcome glass-box monotony has led him into the increasingly popular, mystic fantasy world that is populated by Tolkien's hobbits, Dungeons & Dragons, sundry comic-strip characters, and the likes of the rubbery movie star E.T. It is a world that...
The tile-covered base of the temple is a muddy blue-green that looks gloomier on the street than it did in Graves' delicate pastel drawings. It contains arcades on three sides, which lead to a restaurant, bookstore and several shops. It also contains a rectangular entrance portal that...
The concrete bulk of the building is painted pale yellow and dotted with even rows of square windows. It is decorated with seven-story-high terra cotta pilasters, set against mirror glass and capped by what looks like the metal spout of a sugar box. Above the pilasters, on the...
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.