Payson Building News Today

I would encourage the city of Portland to approve the Portland Museum of Art’s proposal for its addition, including the demolition of the former Chamber of Commerce building. I love historic architecture. I spent childhood summers in a John Calvin Stevens cottage. But I also worked for architects for 40 years and I understand that […]

The suggestion that a large expansion will lift the PMA out of a pattern of financial underperformance is not to be trusted.

Our architectural heritage should certainly be protected. But this is not the battle to fight.

Without the Payson Building, Planning and Zoning Department, the town would look like a chaotic mess.

Portland’s unique historic fabric need not be sacrificed in order to facilitate the museum's expansion.

The analysis of the flaws in the Portland Museum of Art’s expansion plan provided by David Chase (“PMA plan shows contempt for history, context, local ordinances,” Jan. 18) is excellent, but a broader context for the plan’s problems requires looking further back in time to the construction of the existing Payson Building, the first expansion […]

None of the benefits ascribed to the museum's redesign proposal are particular to it.

The PMA's chosen renovation design would require demolishing the building, which is considered a 'contributing structure' to a historic district.

The PMA's chosen renovation design would require demolishing the building, which is considered a 'contributing structure' to a historic district.

In-process, completed, and on-the-boards projects featuring wood, including housing, office towers, museums, and academic buildings from Europe and North America.