PLACE

Imagine a place where visitors roll up their sleeves, engage in artistic process, draw, make models, exchange provocative ideas and experience a taste of what drives this collective towards design excellence. An industrial warehouse transformed into a collaborative and creative design studio in Portland, Oregon, PLACE practices a philosophy of people inspired placemaking. Founded in […]

A Passage of Motion and Memory To cross Shoe Dog Bridge is to step into a space between worlds – where motion is embraced and celebrated. Sunlight filters through its timber structure, etching shifting patterns of light and shadow marking time as travelers pass by. The grain of the wood murmurs of time, its scent […]

Rockwood Village is a promise fulfilled – a community nexus where every individual is seen, valued, and empowered. Developed in collaboration with Community Development Partners (CDP) and Hacienda CDC, this neighborhood redefines a sense of belonging. Inspired by historic town squares, the design cultivates access to nature, spontaneous discoveries, and daily rituals. Communal spaces – […]

A canopy of 70 majestic trees stands as a sentinel of calm, their branches reaching skyward beneath a breathtaking, latticed mass-timber roof. Over 5,000 cascading plants – amidst black walnut, olive, and ficus – weave throughout the terminal, softening edges, purifying air, and blurring the boundary between indoors and Oregon’s great outdoors. Here, light dances […]

With a commitment to creating a hub of innovation and collaboration, the Knight Center for Accelerated Scientific Impact (KCASI) launches the University of Oregon into a bold new direction of scientific discovery. Set along the south bank of the restored Millrace corridor, the site supports the alliance of science education, research, and entrepreneurship. A series […]

With a commitment of creating a hub of innovation and collaboration, the Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact (KCASI), launches the University of Oregon into a bold new direction of scientific discovery. Set along the south bank of the restored Millrace corridor, the site and landscape play a pivotal role in supporting the cooperative alliance […]

Five decades ago, New York Times architecture critic Ada L. Huxtable witnessed the opening of “one of the most important urban spaces since the Renaissance,” – Forecourt Fountain – a 13,000- gallon-per-minute cascade of water of which no city had seen before. As the final in a sequence of four plazas designed for Portland, Forecourt […]

‘A campus in the woods,’ with a series of building complexes nestled in a verdant vernacular, was the original vision for the 500-acre Redmond Microsoft headquarters. As the company and campus grew, woods gave way to buildings and cars while numerous corporate headquarters have flourished throughout the Seattle metropolitan area competing for specialized workforce. The […]

A LEED ND Platinum community, Hassalo on Eighth transformed Portland’s underdeveloped urban commercial zone into a vibrant, eco-friendly, 24-hour neighborhood. Redefining the superblock as the “ultimate revenge of the pedestrian,” Phase 1, Hassalo on Eighth, is 1.1 million SF, the city’s largest residential development with more than 650 sustainable housing units in the Lloyd Eco-district […]

Long before a shopping center thrived and perished, and more recent immigrants enlivened the Gateway community; Cowlitz, Cascades, and Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde have been stewards of this land. In 1954, the Gateway district became Portland’s first car-centric, suburban-style shopping center oasis – a place where people could leave the urban decay but still […]