{"id":658164,"date":"2026-05-22T09:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/658164\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:07:17","slug":"in-portland-a-brand-new-timber-clad-town-house-seeks-1-6m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/658164\/","title":{"rendered":"In Portland, a Brand-New Timber-Clad Town House Seeks $1.6M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footprint: 2,134 Square Feet (3 Bedrooms, 2.5 Baths)<\/p>\n<p>Lot Size: 0.06 Acres<\/p>\n<p>From the Agent: &#8220;Oblique stretches the creative bounds of what\u2019s possible on a 5,000-square-foot vacant lot in Portland\u2019s Alberta Arts District and is a triumph of Portland\u2019s recent zoning reforms. The project was designed by architect Mark Holmquist, a Harvard-trained, former associate partner at world-renowned Foster + Partners. The project appears as if it was carved from a single block of cedar. Through the use of an unorthodox offset between the units, with one slipping past the other, the architect broke up the monotony of the row house and created two private and distinct homes, each with unique identities, experiences, and maximized southern light exposure.\u00a0A gossamer stair threads all three levels in a continuous volume washed in light. The living, dining, and kitchen occupy the main split-level, with two bedrooms and baths on the second. A vaulted, open third floor offers the flexibility of ample additional living space, including a third bedroom.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Footprint: 2,134 Square Feet (3 Bedrooms, 2.5 Baths) Lot Size: 0.06 Acres From the Agent: &#8220;Oblique stretches the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-658164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}