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The design for a 230-foot-tall hotel and an adjoining three-story building to replace the 110-year-old Hotel Albion will have to come back before the Portland Design Commission after a litany of problems was listed by city staffers. The next date for the project‘s review will be June 16.

The Hotel Albion, which currently houses the Lotus Cardroom & Caf茅 on its first floor, is targeted for demolition to accommodate new construction. The development also will be built upon a parking lot due east of the Hotel Albion.

Ankrom Moisan Architects is designing the 20-story hotel with 225 rooms and the three-story building with restaurants and retail space. The three-story building will have a green roof that slopes at an angle to become a green wall extending two floors down to the skylighted, all-glass primary entrance on Southwest Salmon Street. A secondary entrance on Southwest Second Avenue will lead to a rooftop bar with terraces and a shallow pool.

Problems cited by city planner Hillary Adam include: working out a fire egress for a proposed 10-story building next door to the site at 930 S.W. Third Ave., determining an appropriate location for a 25-foot-by-40-foot transformer vault, increasing glazing at the northeast corner, increasing cohesion of the tower volume, and adding details on how laser-cut metal screening will connect to the curtain wall.

Also, the new building should 鈥渂e more deferential鈥� to the adjacent historic Auditorium Building, Adam said, such as by simplifying patterns.

Planned exterior materials include iron spot brick, dark and light gray metal panels, dark gray spandrel glass, glass curtain wall and laser cut metal screen, which some commissioners said was too complicated. They also balked at vertical bands of light proposed for the building’s sides, and asked that renderings be clearer.

鈥淲hen you come back make it really clear what is glass and what is metal,鈥� Commissioner Tad Savinar said.

Savinar also read comments from Commission Chairman David Wark, who could not attend the meeting.

Although the proposed massing is acceptable, Wark stated, materials selection is overly complicated with 鈥渕uch work to do on lower floors and how they relate to the historic building.鈥� He also expressed disappointment with the overall composition and said the angled roof green wall 鈥渇eels forced.鈥�

Southwest Market Street apartments

The commission also held an advice hearing for a proposed 14-story residential building at 1133 S.W. Market St. SERA Architects has designed the stucco building to hold 146 mid-priced units geared toward workers and Portland State University students and staffers.

Kurt Schultz of SERA said parking had been added since the previous advice hearing. Plans call for 21 mechanical vehicle parking spaces and 17 bike parking spaces.

Approximately 12 apartment units are planned per floor, Schultz said, and anticipated amenities include a penthouse clubroom and fitness room, a full eco-roof and a 1,500-square-foot communal roof terrace with tables and seating.

The design team has met with the Regional Arts and Culture Council to discuss a possible mural or other artwork being installed in the lobby, he added.

The proposal for retail space on the ground floor was a concern for some neighborhood groups, Schultz said, so the design team is looking at possible live-work arrangements.

But Commissioner Julie Livingston said that apartment units at grade level would not work in that neighborhood, which she said is at the low end of the economic scale.

鈥淭here are a lot of reasons not to have this type of apartment at grade,鈥� she said. 鈥淚t is not something I could support because of safety issues.鈥�

After making other suggestions, including Juliette windows, the commission set June 2 for the project’s next hearing.