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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

The twin glass spires are not decoration - they are light wells, funnelling daylight into the building's core, and one of them houses the world's largest Foucault pendulum. The Oregon Convention Center at 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard in Portland's Lloyd District opened in 1990 as the largest convention facility in Oregon. The design came from Portland's own Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects: an 85-million-dollar precast concrete and brick building whose bimodal plan answered an oblong, ...