Thirty years on an Holladay Investors still do not have a hotel on the site shown.
Do the twin spires have a symbolic meaning, or are they just an architect’s idea of a “signature feature”? Mt Hood and Mt St Helens?
Good question Tom K. You’d have to ask the PA at ZGF. Most likely get some philosophical answer with multiple meanings. But really just like you said some
” architect’s idea of a “signature feature”
There’s a MAX train you won’t see anymore (at least not in revenue service) – two Type I cars running together.
Tom and Craig – I always understood that they were meant to invoke the two tower design of the Hawthorne and Steel bridges.
Does anyone remember the “oops” moment when, after it was completed, they realized they didn’t design in a way to clean the glass on the spires?
Those towers always reminded me of the eye stalks on a slug.
And only one car sitting at the red light on MLK…or was it still Union at that time?
A few weeks before the construction fire what trapped a couple workers in a tower.
They weren’t hurt, Just crap scared.
I believe two metal spires would be more attractive, more visible and would eliminate interior cleaning.
Man, I’d love to time travel to 1989 in Portland. I wasn’t here yet, and there was some really cool stuff going on in Portland during that time..
I had always heard the spires were supposed t represent sails along the river.
Vintage Portland 
Thirty years on an Holladay Investors still do not have a hotel on the site shown.
Do the twin spires have a symbolic meaning, or are they just an architect’s idea of a “signature feature”? Mt Hood and Mt St Helens?
Good question Tom K. You’d have to ask the PA at ZGF. Most likely get some philosophical answer with multiple meanings. But really just like you said some
” architect’s idea of a “signature feature”
There’s a MAX train you won’t see anymore (at least not in revenue service) – two Type I cars running together.
Tom and Craig – I always understood that they were meant to invoke the two tower design of the Hawthorne and Steel bridges.
Does anyone remember the “oops” moment when, after it was completed, they realized they didn’t design in a way to clean the glass on the spires?
Those towers always reminded me of the eye stalks on a slug.
And only one car sitting at the red light on MLK…or was it still Union at that time?
A few weeks before the construction fire what trapped a couple workers in a tower.
They weren’t hurt, Just crap scared.
I believe two metal spires would be more attractive, more visible and would eliminate interior cleaning.
Man, I’d love to time travel to 1989 in Portland. I wasn’t here yet, and there was some really cool stuff going on in Portland during that time..
I had always heard the spires were supposed t represent sails along the river.