Oregon

Hacker overhauls “fortress-like” brutalist library in Oregon

January 18, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Colourful furnishings and large stretches of glass feature in a 1970s library building that has been updated by US studio Hacker Architects. The three-storey, concrete library is located next to City Hall in downtown Salem, the capital of Oregon. Encompassing 96,000 square feet (8,919 square metres), the building was originally designed by American architect George

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Mork-Ulnes completes eight-sided Octothorpe House in Oregon desert

December 6, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Mork-Ulnes Architects has completed a single-family residence in Oregon with a dark exterior and interconnected spaces without corridors that was built using American-made cross-laminated timber. The 3,340-square-foot (310-square metre) Octothorpe House is located in Bend, Oregon, a small city 160 miles (257 kilometres) southeast of Portland. “[It’s] a hybrid between a cabin and a house,

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Mass-timber office in Portland is world’s largest commercial living building

August 22, 2022 Jenna McKnight 0

Mass timber framing, compostable toilets and a rooftop photovoltaic array are among the sustainable features in PAE Living Building, an Oregon office building that was designed and partly funded by US studio ZGF Architects. Named after one of its key tenants – the engineering firm PAE – the building is located in Portland’s Skidmore/Old Town Historic District.

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Skylab Architecture clads Nike’s Serena Williams Building in armour-like plates

April 27, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Portland studio Skylab Architecture has revealed images of its Serena Williams Building, designed for sportswear brand Nike’s campus in Beaverton, Oregon. The building was completed in Beaverton, where Nike has its campus in the Oregon hills, and features a central tower from which five wings stretch out. The one-million-square-foot (92,903-square-metre) building was designed as a

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SRG raises canopy with glue-laminated timber beams above Hayward Field

April 26, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Seattle-based architecture firm SRG Partnership has reimagined the Hayward Field stadium in Eugene, Oregon, with glulam beams supporting an ETFE canopy. Hayward Field, home to the track and field facility for the University of Oregon, was recently renovated in order to include a new grandstand and canopy. The redesigned stadium has 12,650 seats with 84,085

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Lever Architecture uses mass timber in Portland’s Meyer Memorial Trust building

March 15, 2022 Jenna McKnight 0

Structural plywood was used to help reduce the carbon footprint of an Oregon office building designed by Lever Architecture for a nonprofit organisation. Located in Portland’s Albina neighbourhood, the building serves as the headquarters for Meyer Memorial Trust, a charitable foundation focused on racial, social and economic justice. Local studio Lever Architecture designed the facility

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Hacker Architects overhauls Oregon residence with colourful interiors and natural pine finishes

January 2, 2022 James Brillon 0

Hacker Architects has renovated a 1970s house in central Oregon, removing walls to create a more spacious layout and preserving original design features that lend the home a “retro spirit”. The Bailey Residence is located in Black Butte Ranch, a small and isolated community located within the state’s Willamette National Forest. Portland-based Hacker Architects’ renovation

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Steel mesh wraps Nike’s LeBron James Innovation Center by Olson Kundig

October 8, 2021 Jenna McKnight 0

A full-size basketball court and a 200-metre track are among the spaces found inside a large, metal-clad building designed by US firm Olson Kundig on the Nike campus in Oregon. The LeBron James Innovation Center is part of the 300-acre (121-hectare) Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. The new facility is named after the basketball

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Palisociety and North 45 Projects return grand Portland hotel to its original use

September 2, 2021 James Brillon 0

Palisociety and North 45 Projects have preserved original details at this early 20th-century hotel in Portland, Oregon, which reopened this year as the Hotel Grand Stark. Originally built in 1908, the building sits across the Willamette River from the city’s Downtown area and was formerly known as the Chamberlain Hotel. Hotel Grand Stark takes its

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MGA creates mass timber buildings for forestry college in Oregon

June 23, 2021 Jenna McKnight 0

Canadian firm Michael Green Architecture used materials such as mass plywood panels and cross-laminated timber to construct two buildings at an Oregon university. The buildings are part of the College of Forestry at Oregon State University, a public institution in the city of Corvallis. Both structures were designed by MGA, or Michael Green Architecture, which

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