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Visit: Rosa Parks Elementary School

Rosa Parks Elementary School is one of Portland’s newest schools– by a long shot. Designed by DOWA for a quickly expanding, mostly minority area of the Portsmouth neighborhood, this school goes beyond its title of “school” to really fulfill the needs of the community. I recently had the opportunity to visit and interview the school’s […] […]

Who are the students?

As I explained previously, this project fills the gap left by the destruction of the Whitaker Middle School on the same site. Though a magnet program would draw students from all over the city, a large portion of the student body would be students who were once sent to Whitaker. What did that population look […] […]

A Site is in Sight

Drum roll please (or an eye roll will do)… Fernhill Park, Portland, Oregon http://www.panoramio.com/photo/13556521 Located in NE Portland, this park hosts a combination of disturbed land, open lawn, recreational hardscape, and mature trees. As the former site of the condemned Whitaker Middle School building, this park is located in a neighborhood that is sorely missing a middle school […] […]