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Slide Show: 2015 Portland Modern Home Tour

April 8, 2015

The lobby at Burnside 26, the tour's only apartment complex (Cortney Kerr Photography)

This Northeast Portland home designed by Winn Architecture and built by Homes By Brent Keys incorporates elements of modern living within an architectural form that allows infill integration in existing, long-established neighborhoods.(Steve Haning)

A floating home that lies on the Willamette River in the Sellwood area of Portland, designed by Integrate Architecture & Planning, p.c. Photograph by Jeff Amram.

This two-story modern floating home is designed to capture the stunning views in both directions on the river, and also contains several sustainable features, including a geo-thermal heat pump heating & cooling system as well as a 10 KV photo-voltaic roo

The LeGendre residence located in the Southwest Hills, designed by Christopher Gelber showcases classic styles of modern architecture and features floor to ceiling windows and French doors on the sides and rear of the home that open onto a series of deck

Inside the LeGendre residence

A set of twins in the Humboldt neighborhood, from Homes by Brent Keys (Steve Haning)

The “ideahousePDX,” located just off SW riverside Drive and just a stone’s throw from the Willamette River, is the vision of David Horning (a partner at MOA architecture) and Holly Freres (owner of JHL design inc). (Ty Milford)

Completed in 2014, the home was built with the idea that simple materials, beautifully designed, could make an affordable dwelling, while weaving in green building practices where they could.

A home in Southeast's Sunnyside built as a collaboration between builder Cellar Ridge Construction and designer m.o.daby design. (Doreen Wynja -Eye of the Lady Photography)

A home near Forrest Park, originally built in 1960 and recently renovated extensively by the current owners (with help from Innovative Spaces Epic Construction and Remodeling) in an effort to return the house to its original 1960's roots. (Andrew Pece Ph

Launched in 2011 as a spin-off from an Austin event, the Portland Modern Home Tour opens eight residences—typically flooded with natural light, full of clean lines and progressive building materials, and glazed to a fare–thee–well—each year. "These tend to be the houses people drive by and say, man, I wish I could see the inside," says Ken Shallcross of the tour's national parent company. "Unless you're a friend or family member, this is your chance." Longtime local architecture writer Brian Libby curates the Portland tour. This year, his selections range from a sparkling East Burnside apartment building to an imposing black cube in the West Hills to a fab modernist house boat. The houses open for the self-guided, self-paced tour from 11 am to 5 pm, April 25; use the code "pdxmonthly" for a $5 discount on each $30 advance ticket.

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