This controversial 15-story building (1982) was designed by Michael Graves and catapulted the postmodern architect to celebrity status. The people working inside the blocky, pastel-colored edifice, however, have had to deal with tiny windows, cramped spaces and general user-unfriendliness. The building suffered from major design flaws that later proved very costly to fix – not a great start for what was considered to be the world's first major postmodern structure. At least it's been made somewhat green: an eco-roof was installed in 2006.
Towering above the main doors of the Portland Building is Portlandia , an immense statue of the Goddess of Commerce, Portland's supposed patroness. This crouching figure is, at 36ft, the second-largest hammered-copper statue in the US (after the Statue of Liberty).
