Portland Union Station, from Sixth. The upper floors are leased offices, but the first floor is still an Amtrak station.
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At the bus stop near Union Station, looking south down Fifth. |
On the Broadway Bridge, looking west to the Northwest Portland hills. The Union Station tower is just visible on the left. The green sign has the phone number of a suicide-counseling hotline; all the Portland bridges have these signs. |
East side of the Sellwood Bridge.
Looking south down the Willamette from the Sellwood Bridge.
PCAT, the infamous home of the Portland State University
Department of Computer Science.
It was once the Blue Cross/Blue Shield building (before they
moved to a boring skyscraper a few blocks away), which
explains the "Smurf Hut" ambience and the cross motif.
Above: Another shot of PCAT, this time looking east from the skybridge that
connects the University Services Building (itself a shining example of
Concrete Brutalism) and the School of BizAdmin building. The Portland
Center apartments, which block the view of Southeast Portland, were
part of "urban renewal".
Below: The rather silly little plaza between the
new Urban Center building (off the picture to the left) and PCAT.
The only real use for this pseudo-space is as a skateboard
park, but of course skateboarding on the numerous and variously
sized steps is strictly prohibited. On the other hand, it used to be
a minor two-way street, which is probably even more useless.
The Steel Bridge. Below: note the MAX train.