Courtesy of Portland State University, Department of Architecture

Portland State University’s Department of Architecture recently announced that architect and professor Gilles Saucier will deliver the third presentation in their inaugural lecture series, titled “Firsts,” given by the department. Saucier is currently a design partner of Saucier + Perrotte Architects in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and an invited professor and critic at a number of Canadian and American universities, most recently at MIT in 2011.Saucier will speak on Thursday, February 23, at 7pm, at Shattuck Hall Annex on the Portland State University campus. These lecture series, which are free to the public, explore the concepts of origins and beginnings, long a subject of interest among architects. More information on the event after the break. read more »

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Architects: Holst Architecture
Location: Portland, Oregon
Project Team: John T. Holmes, Jeffery Stuhr, Dave Otte, Kim Wilson, Cory Hawbecker, Katie Decker
Developer: Home Forward
Contractor: Walsh Construction
Project Year: 2011
Budget: $29 million
Project Area: 106,000 sqm
Photographs: Sally Schoolmaster, Christian Columbres

   
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Harpoon House, a simple efficient home in Portland that’s expected to achieve LEED Platinum certification. The 28-foot tall home has one bedroom, one bathroom, a root cellar, and a roof garden. Photo by Matt Kirkpatrick at www.idwellingdeisgn.com.

PORTLAND–A recent study by Portland-based Earth Advantage Institute reveals that Energy Star and LEED certification for new and existing homes not only saves money but might also raise resale value. The study, conducted over four years in the six-county Portland metropolitan area, found that newly constructed homes with third-party certifications for sustainability and energy efficiency sold for 8% more on average than non-certified homes, and existing homes with certifications sold for 30% more. A similar study was also conducted Seattle, showing 9.6% price premium with certification. While the results are inconclusive, they are compelling.

From the Washington Post Writers Group VIA Los Angeles Times:

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/28/business/la-fi-harney-20110828

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Landscape Architect: OLIN
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
Architect: ZGF
Project Team: Laurie Olin, FASLA
Consultants: Mayer/Reed, KPFF Consulting Engineers, SOLARC Architecture and Engineering, Interface Engineering, Benya Lighting Design, Tad Savinar, CMS Collaborative, Corson Studios, Karen Whitman Projects
Project Area: 22,000 sqf
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: ZGF, Eckert & Eckert

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ZGF Architects and PoSI teamed up to provide a concept submission for the International Living Future Institute’s 2011 Living City Design Competition which has been recently awarded a People’s Choice Award voted by the attendees of the Living Future 2011 conference.

Their submission entitled Symbiotic Districts: Towards a Balanced City explores the symbiosis between five EcoDistricts in Portland, Oregon as well as regional systems and examines how strategies in a single district contribute to the city’s overall performance.

Competition Team: ZGF Architects, Portland Sustainability Institute, CH2M Hill, David Evans and Associates, Greenworks PC, Newlands and Company, Inc., Portland State University, Institute for Sustainable Solutions, and Sparling

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The International Symposium on Projected Light will be hosted by the Department of Architecture at Portland State University on April 9th. The second annual symposium, ‘Illuminated City: A Light with Content Symposium’, will explore the experiential, spatial, technical, political and interactive qualities of projected light media.

Speakers include Leni Schwendinger, Thomas Schielke, Ali Momeni, Urban Screen, and Spitball Media. The symposium, chaired by Assistant Professor Jeff Schnabel, will include light installations on campus and in Portland galleries featuring the work of designers, artists and students.

Courtesy of Allied Works Architecture

The site for this project was within an abandoned warehouse that fills a city block. This allowed the Wieden+Kennedy advertising agency to occupy a single building for the first time in many years. The original 1908 building formed a solid, five-story masonry mass with little light – a perforated box filled with a gridwork of heavy timber and quartered by cruciform masonry walls.

Project description, images, and drawings after the break.

Architect: Allied Works Architecture
Location: 224 NW 13th Avenue, Portland, Oregon, USA
Project Team: Brad Cloepfil, Kyle Lommen, John Weil, Chris Bixby, Paul Kinley, Jeff Lee, Jake Freauff, Lorraine Guthrie, Brian Malady
Client: Wieden+Kennedy
Photographs: Courtesy of Allied Works Architecture

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Architects: Works Partnership Architecture
Location: 524 East Burnside Street, Portland, Oregon, USA
Structural engineer: DCI Engineers
Project area: 26,737 sq. ft.
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Stephen A. Miller

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Architects: Works Partnership Architecture (W.PA)
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
Client/Project: tandemDUO
Project area: 5,382 sq. ft.
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Bruce Wolf, Works Partnership Architecture

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This residential renovation by Atelier Waechter transformed an existing 1947 single story Cape Cod style house into a compact and functional 1,400 sqf modern dwelling.  Simple clean lines, each level of the new house has a distinct character to meet the needs of the new inhabitants.  Cape Cod received a 2010 AIA Portland Built Merit Award.

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Architects: Atelier Waechter
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
Builder: Prutting and Co.
Structural Engineer: Munzing Structural Engineering
Owner: Lola Oyibo & Eric Boardman
Project Area: 1,400 sqf
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Sally Schoolmaster

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With a design strategy to maximize outdoor living space and minimize building footprint, the Z-Haus, winner of 2010 AIA Portland Design Award – Built Citation, consists of two attached row houses constructed on a 50’ x 100’ urban infill lot.  Atelier Waechter thoughtfully designed each house, made up of 6 rooms that are offset at every half story and smoothly joined by a series of half flight stairs.  More photographs and drawings of this award winning project following the break.

Designer: Ben Waechter

Location: Portland, Oregon

Structural Engineer: Froelich Consulting Engineers

Builder: Owner Builder

Owner: Ben Waechter & Daria Crymes

Project Area: 2,800 sqf (each unit)

Project Year: 2008

Photographs: Stephen Miller

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We’ve featured lots of sustainability driven projects on AD that implement passive systems, eco-friendly materials, and green roofs.  But this government building in Portland, Oregon has completely overshadowed any green wall we’ve seen thus far.  Tim Newcomb for Architectural Record reported that a 200-foot-high living wall may be tacked onto the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building.

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Portland Fire and Rescue in partnership with Portland State University’s School of Architecture today announced the winner of a competition to design the Portland Firefighters Memorial. After an eight month, two-stage competition with input from firefighters and the general public, the selection committee members unanimously selected the design by Aaron Whelton / Whelton Architecture as the competition winner.

The Portland Firefighters Memorial will be located on the east bank of the Willamette River adjacent to Fire Station no. 21 and directly across from downtown Portland. Whelton Architecture’s design establishes two discernable experiential zones: at the ground level, low horizontal stone benches and walls are rooted into the earth; and in the sky, tall vertical lanterns gently sway overhead. These elements are organized across the memorial field in a series of parallel lines whose overall figure is greater than any one individual mark.

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