Oregon

An event pavilion and aerial tree walk are among the enhancements to Portland’s Leach Botanical Garden, which is being upgraded by a team that includes US studios Land Morphology and Olson Kundig Architects. Located in southeast Portland, the city-owned park encompasses 16 acres (6.5 hectares) and is open to the public. In 2015, Land Morphology

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Waechter Architecture has completed an “all-wood” commercial building in Portland, which it says is the first commercial building in Oregon to “use mass timber construction for all components of the building”. The building, called Mississippi has structural elements made from cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels and glued-laminated timber (glulam) beams. Apart from the exterior weathering steel

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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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