The First Tech Federal Credit Union office—at five stories and 156,000 square feet—became America’s largest CLT-framed building by area when it opened this past summer.
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.
The luxury mixed-use development, dubbed the Yard, is leading Portland’s east side into a taller future—and a citywide conversation.
Ziba’s JumpSeat elegantly bridges a design gap between folding chairs and theater seats.
Holst Architecture shapes new offices to reflect Ziba’s unique culture of design.
Portland’s Gerding Edlen Development continues to break new ground in green design.
Uniqlo hires Japan’s hottest retail designer to apply his distinctive brand of showmanship to the company’s new Soho flagship store.
A LEED Platinum rehab in Portland finds a balance between preservation and sustainability.
An international conference focuses on practical designs for aging societies.
The challenge was a relatively simple one: take the bus near my home in southeast Portland, Oregon, across the Willamette River to a laboratory just north of downtown on Naito Parkway, about five miles away. I was to plan the…
Artist Patrick Dougherty builds a nest where Portland creatives can hatch new ideas.
With a new block-size park by Herbert Dreiseitl, Portland restores a piece of its natural environment.
Of the hundreds of building projects that have earned the U.S. Green Building Council’s coveted Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating since the program’s inception in 2000, not one has been a hotel. But the new Hilton Vancouver…
Architect Randy Higgins makes over a Portland art school with a fresh coat of paint.
Over the next two decades, China’s urban population is projected to increase by 250 million people; these city dwellers use up to 3.5 times more energy than rural denizens. Yet China has relatively few fuel resources, and burning coal—its most…
Although the Leadership in Energy and Design (LEED) rating system was created by the U.S. Green Building Council, it no longer is restricted to the States. In July, the Canadian province of British Columbia became the first non-American licensee of…
As the ideas put forth by the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system slowly gain mainstream acceptance, the organization is expanding its program to apply to other facets of architecture, including commercial interiors,…
For all the U.S. Green Building Council has done to advance sustainable building with its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design [LEED] program, reality is that since new buildings comprise less than five percent of the total construction market, the…
As it prepares to add a new Commercial Interiors (CI) program to its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) ratings system, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has become, in a sense, its own client. In November 2003, the…
Long before big-box retailers were common, Safeway was paving the way with its own cavernous, super-sized grocery stores, complete with sprawling parking lots. Recently, though, the international chain has taken its first steps toward a more progressive urban future by…
