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{{Short description|Historic building in Portland, Oregon, U.S.}}
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{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox building
| name               = The Portland Building
| image              = Portland Building 1982.jpg
| image_size         = 250px
| caption            = Viewed from the southwest in 1982
| alternate_names    = Portland Municipal Services Building
| location           = 1120 SW 5th Avenue<br>[[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], [[Oregon]]
| coordinates        = {{coord|45.515635|-122.678675|region:US-OR|display=inline,title}}
| map_type           = USA Portland downtown
| map_caption        = Location within downtown Portland
| completion_date    = 1982
| opening            = October 2, 1982 
| status             = 
| building_type      = Government offices
| architectural_style = [[Postmodern architecture|Postmodern]]
| roof               = {{convert|70.41|m|abbr=on}}
| floor_count        = 15
| elevator_count     = 
| cost               = US$41.2 million<ref name=Emporis/>
| floor_area         = <!-- {{convert||sqft|abbr=on}} -->
| architect          = [[Michael Graves]]<br>[[Emery Roth & Sons]] 
| structural_engineer= Desimone Consulting Engineers
| main_contractor    = [[Hoffman Construction Company|Hoffman Construction]]<br>Pavarini Mcgovern Construction
| developer          = 
| ren_architect      = [[DLR Group]]
| ren_contractor     = [[Howard S. Wright Companies|Howard S. Wright Construction]]
| owner              = [[Government of Portland, Oregon|City of Portland]]
| management         = 
| references         = <ref name=Emporis>{{Cite web |url=https://www.emporis.com/buildings/122646 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306025521/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/122646 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |title=Emporis building ID 122646 |work=[[Emporis]]}}</ref><ref>{{SkyscraperPage|1869}}</ref><ref>{{Structurae|20019049}}</ref><ref name="Cities Journal">{{cite web |title=Top 21 Absolutely Ugliest Cities In The World |url=http://www.citiesjournal.com/top-14-absolutely-ugliest-cities-in-the-world/4/ |website=Cities Journal |accessdate=17 March 2019 |language=en |date=5 June 2014 |archive-date=16 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190316122921/http://www.citiesjournal.com/top-14-absolutely-ugliest-cities-in-the-world/4/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
{{Infobox NRHP
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  | name = Portland Public Service Building
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  | architecture = [[Postmodern architecture|Postmodern]]<ref name="Cities Journal"/>
  | added = October 25, 2011<ref name=trib-nov2011/>
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  | refnum = 11000770<ref name=NRHP>{{cite web |url=http://www.nps.gov/history/NR/listings/20111118.htm |title=Weekly list of actions taken on properties: 11/07/11 through 11/10/11 |date=November 18, 2011 |publisher=[[National Park Service]] |accessdate=November 23, 2011 |archive-date=November 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123095435/https://www.nps.gov/nr/listings/20111118.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
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The '''Portland Building''', alternatively referenced as the '''Portland Municipal Services Building''', is a 15-story municipal office building located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue in [[downtown Portland]], [[Oregon]]. Built at a cost of US$29 million, it opened in 1982 and was considered architecturally groundbreaking at the time.<ref>"Designs as varied as uses of city's newer buildings". ''The Oregonian''. Portland. February 19, 1990.</ref><ref name="times1981">Weiner, Ed (October 18, 1981). "The most famous building in Seattle is in Portland: Michael Graves' new building is an architectural milestone and is anything but boring". ''[[The Seattle Times]]'', p. E1/E4.</ref>

The building houses offices of the [[Government of Portland, Oregon|City of Portland]] and is located adjacent to [[Portland City Hall (Oregon)|Portland City Hall]].  It was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 2011.<ref name=trib-nov2011>{{cite news| title=Portland Building gets a place on national history list| date=November 17, 2011| newspaper=[[Portland Tribune]]| url=http://portlandtribune.com/component/content/article?id=15793| access-date=September 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190916104010/https://pamplinmedia.com/component/content/article?id=15793| archive-date=September 16, 2019| url-status=dead}}</ref> An extensive reconstruction of the building began in December 2017<ref name="bizjournal-2017nov29"/> and was completed in 2020.<ref name="metropolis-2020"/> The building was temporarily closed for that work, and the closure was extended by the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Oregon|COVID-19 pandemic]].