3686This is a couple of views northward down Southwest 4th Avenue, one of the princpal north-south through routes through downtown Portland (the other being Southwest Broadway).
The vistas are thanks to Portland's advantageously-hilly geography, the white shadows due to the stuff'n'nonsense on our dashboard (I had to take the picture through the windscreen of the old battle-wagon Subaru):
We are looking north on Southwest 4th from about Southwest Hall Street. Two buildings of note here: the nearer tall one on the left is a triangular apartment complex with rounded corners called The Portland Plaza, and it comes from a day that such buildings weren't so common. Still a pretty posh place, and iconic in its way.
The vertically-striped one has been, since the early 1970s, and still is today, Portland's (and the State of Oregon's) tallest building, despite it having two fewer floors than the US Bancorp Tower fourteen blocks farther north and one block west. I adore the slender lines and the minimalist style of it.
The beauty of Portland cityscapes is that if you frame it just so, you wind up with something that looks much less urban than it really is. Southwest 4th Avenue is one of the most urban streets within the bounds of the State of Oregon, yet if you zoom and frame just so ...
It looks like you're driving into and through a park.
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