Armory Is Amazing
Posted by: kmikeym | From: January 21, 2007
Have you guys been to the Armory yet? It's amazing. Tim DuRoche gave me a tour and I took some pictures, but next time you are walking by you need to stop in and check out the lobby and the interactive history installations. The history of the Armory is something I've heard about mostly through people that grew up in Portland and involves both roller derby and professional wrestling before it was part of the Weinhardt brewery.
From the lobby you can see that they hollowed the old building out and then it seems they just built a new modern structure inside the fortress. There is this modern glass and concrete structure living like a hermit crab inside the shell of the Portland history.
Deep underground there is the smaller blackbox theater. It feels like you're entering the lair for some portland super villain.
Adding to the feel of some secret hideout is the hallways with neat lights.
And my favorite place is the Green Room located in the turret.
Lots more photos on Flickr. And of course more photos on the PCS site.
molly and i went during the opening weekend tour thing. it was great they had perfomers in every bit of the tour. really fun.
Posted by: curt at January 21, 2007 12:44 PM
Wow, that looks really neat. I especially like the room in the bottom photo. Too often do I find myself unable to locate a comfy couch after a hard day of crossbowing intruders who're trying to breach my moat.
Posted by: RyanG at January 21, 2007 10:58 PM
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I keep meaning to go check it out! Thanks for posting about it; it looks amazing.
Posted by: Emily at January 21, 2007 12:28 PM