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Portland
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This Mass Timber Office Tower Was Assembled Like a Giant IKEA Set
Waechter Architecture’s mixed-use, mass-timber office in Portland, Oregon, was prefabricated in a factory in Austria, flat-packed, and set up on site.
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Portland’s Holst Architecture is a Firm About Its People
Over 30 years, the firm has changed its ownership, portfolio, and process—without losing its essence.
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Portland’s Beebe Skidmore Architects Serves up Housing with a Twist
Combining a new building and old house into one co-living development, The Outpost achieves affordability, preservation, and community through density.
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Hacker Architects Is Rethinking How Libraries Serve People
In a suburb of Portland, Oregon, the Ledding Library not only lends books, but also objects such as weed-whackers and air fryers.
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Path Architecture Builds a Modern, Mass Timber Answer to Assisted Living
A 70-unit apartment complex in Portland combines barrier-free design, eco-friendly construction, and a focus on human connections for active seniors.
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LEVER Architecture’s Meyer Memorial Trust HQ Balances Equity and Sustainability
A LEED Platinum-rated design was just the start. At the Meyer Memorial Trust headquarters, progress comes on many fronts.
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Rafters and Ribbon: A New Home for Blu Dot in Portland
Blu Dot’s Portland showroom by Waechter Architecture combines historic craft and contemporary curves—much like the furniture company’s aesthetic.
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A Renovation Saves Michael Graves’ Portland Building
DLR Group and contractor Howard S. Wright bring sweeping changes to the Postmodern landmark.
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A Colorful Portland Prototype Reinvents the SRO
Argyle Gardens, the nation’s first affordable housing project to open during the pandemic, was designed by Holst Architecture to also be replicable.
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Mahlum Architects’ New Office is the First Living Building–Certified Project in Portland
By following rigorous LBC guidelines, the group has turned the location into a model of its organizational values, including sustainable design.
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How Hacker Architects Put a Middle School on the Path to Net Zero
The Gilkey International Middle School in Portland, Oregon, makes the most of its forest site, harnessing natural light, fresh air, and biophilia.
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A Historic Portland Building Turns Over a New Leaf—as a Stylish Hostel
In addition to restoring its Art Deco details, KEX Portland's design team infused the space with a cool Icelandic vibe.
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“Origami” Artfully Reimagines an Overlooked Housing Type
With Origami, Portland, Oregon’s missing-middle housing stock takes shape.
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Sumptuous Textures and a Rich Material Palette Define Portland’s New Woodlark Hotel
R&A Architecture + Design transformed two historic buildings to create the new 150‐room boutique hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon.
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Super-Sustainable Addition to Business School Quickly Becomes Center of Portland State Campus
Even more than its newly renovated home and an expansion next door, the Karl Miller Center’s five-story atrium gives Portland State University a sense of place.
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In the Wake of Inclusionary Housing, What Needs to Happen Next in Portland
In the Portland offices of TVA Architects, Metropolis’s director of design innovation Susan S. Szenasy led a lively discussion on healthy solutions to affordable housing.
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Skylab Architecture Designs a Unique Tower/Podium Hybrid in Portland
The luxury mixed-use development, dubbed the Yard, is leading Portland’s east side into a taller future—and a citywide conversation.
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Pacific Northwest Design: How Abundant Natural Beauty And Rich Cultural Exchange Shaped a Region
An ambitious culture of craft and design lies amid the region's internationally successful creators of computer code and yoga pants.
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Portland’s ADX: A Makerspace with Urban Ambitions
The founder of Portland's ADX on sharing, hard work, and the next generation of makers
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Beyond DIY: How a Small Portland Factory Is Leading a New Makers Movement
Spooltown combines craft with factory scales of production.