Willamette Falls

Design options for the pipe chase

Wed 4 Jan 17

At the riverwalk design community event held on November 17, we shared design options for the pipe chase area of the site (reference Area 2, South Riverfront on the map below). A few discussion topics at the heart of these design options include:

Access. Re-use of the pipe chase structure can provide an easy connection to the southern portion of the site. Removal of the structure will require access to the falls through the interior of the site, away from the river or through constructing new access routes.

Views. Along its length, the pipe chase can provide views of the falls to the south, the river to the west, and views into the interior of the site to the east. IfHuman Rights, Justice and the World Church

When more than 400 Catholic moral theologians from around the world gathered in Padua, Italy, from July 8 to 11, the meeting evoked an awareness of God calling the church to deeper communion and generated among them a powerful desire to work for greater unity throughout the global human community. The theologians experienced the concrete meaning of the words from the Second Vatican Council that proclaimed that the church is a sign and instrument of “communion with God and of the unity of the entire human race” (“Dogmatic Constitution on the Church,” No. 1). They also vividly realized Karl Rahner’s claim that the Second Vatican Council launched a new epoch for Catholicism as a truly world church, rather than as a European