Why aren't people protesting the PDX carpet change? (Portland: transplants, 2013)

[muffincake]

The current carpet at the airport is so popular, and so quirky. People buy t-shirts and phone cases with the design. They use it as their computer wallpaper. The Portland Timbers are making a scarf of that design. So why are people okay with the carpet being replaced? I would've thought there would be a public outcry. The new design keeps the color palate, but not the interesting retro-looking design that feels so Portlandy to me.

Who is going to organize the petition? Anyone?

[urbanlife78]

The current carpet is really old....not the design, but the actual carpet. I have the PDX pattern on my key chain and I am sure there is a petition out there for you to sign, but for me, I like the fact that ZGF Architects designed the new pattern and they did so with the pattern everyone loves in mind, and I think their new design is a good change.

But the old pattern will be missed and always remembered.

[muffincake]

^ They could just put down a new carpet with the same design though!

[urbanlife78]

Originally Posted by muffincake

^ They could just put down a new carpet with the same design though!

They could, but I think they want to update the look.

[take57]

Originally Posted by muffincake

^ They could just put down a new carpet with the same design though!

Gotta keep the our graphic design workforce employed...

[Nell Plotts]

Or all those designers, graduates from a school of architecture, who can't pass the exam.

Actually ZGF is a fine firm.

[take57]

Originally Posted by Nell Plotts

Actually ZGF is a fine firm.

Yeah. I guess we can be thankful they didn't put a bird in the new design.

[Nell Plotts]

Maybe they hid a bird in some corner just for fun.

[AndyAMG]

The PDX carpet thing was never really a thing until a few years ago, I believe it started by transplants honestly. It's not a long-held tradition. I was born and raised here I could not care less what kind of carpet they install in the airport. I don't know anyone from the older generation who can readily identify it. To me its an old carpet from the late 80's early 90's and nothing more. Now, it has somesort of odd hipster draw in circles on the internet.

Most the older generations remeber that carpet before that looked somewhat similar in color but the design was the port of portland logo stylized. Actually, the new stuff is the same thing but more stylized and minimalist.

..Actually, the carpet isn't even the same all throughtout the terminal. I seem to recall 3 different styles the PoP, a P in a circle, and PDX's in lines, in the carpet.

That carpet was installed between 88-91 ish the airport was completed in 1996ish. I still remember the old black glass terminals with cement floors, and there was nothing special about that either. The airport you see today was 100% different just 25 years ago. 20 years from now they will probably go back to cement floors.

The only thing I remember as a kid that people were enthusiastic about were the (at that time) engineering marvel that is the canopy between the terminal and parking garage (before, you just got soaked everytime you went to the airport) and the new moving walkways in terminal E around 1996.

[urbanlife78]

Originally Posted by AndyAMG

The PDX carpet thing was never really a thing until a few years ago, I believe it started by transplants honestly. It's not a long-held tradition. I was born and raised here I could not care less what kind of carpet they install in the airport. I don't know anyone from the older generation who can readily identify it. To me its an old carpet from the late 80's early 90's and nothing more. Now, it has somesort of odd hipster draw in circles on the internet.

Most the older generations remeber that carpet before that looked somewhat similar in color but the design was the port of portland logo stylized. Actually the new stuff is the same thing but more stylized and minimalist.

That carpet was installed between 88-91 ish the airport was completed in 1996ish. I still remember the old black glass terminals with cement floors, and there was nothing special about that either. The airport you see today was 100% different just 25 years ago. 20 years from now they will probably go back to cement floors.

The only thing I remember as a kid that people were enthusiastic about were the (at that time) engineering marvel that is the canopy between the terminal and parking garage (before, you just got soaked everytime you went to the airport) and the new moving walkways in terminal E around 1996.

My wife was born and raised here, as well as a number of other friends and family here that all love the PDX carpet. Not sure it is a generational thing unless you are talking about a few generations old or something.