News: Michael Graves' seminal Portland Public Services Building will be spared from demolition, despite being described as a "white elephant" and requiring an estimated $95 million for renovation.
Also known as the Portland Building, the 15-storey office block in Portland, Oregon, will continue to provide facilities for 1,300 of the city's employees with a redesign that will include input from the original architect.
"It's going to be saved," Graves told the Architect's Newspaper Blog . "They told me… They said they are saving the building and not only that but we want you to sit on a committee for the redesign." Graves suggested that work could begin on the building in 2015.