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Progress and Possibility

The International Mass Timber Conference brought together architects, contractors, fabricators, and foresters

1941–2023

Thomas Hacker, one of Oregon’s most influential architects, died at 81

Read Up

Adjaye Associates and Holst Architecture design a new library in the Portland suburbs

exterior of a building with a cantilevered overhang and adjacent test track
A Palace Fit for King James

Scope out Olson Kundig’s completed LeBron James Innovation Center at Nike headquarters

The low boxy exterior of the corvallis museum, with triangular bay windows
Small Wonder

High design meets folksy tastes at Oregon’s Corvallis Museum, with surprising results

A lengthy timber building, outpost, against the sky
Touch The Skylab

Skylab brings a timber Outpost to Oregon’s waterfront

Inside an Oregon State University College of Forestry made from timber with multistory spaces
Green In Theme And Designer

The Oregon State University College of Forestry defers to the landscape

Orange skies from western wildfires have smothered construction sites
Stop The Blade Runner, I Want To Get Off

Western wildfires smother construction sites to a halt

blockbuster video in bend, oregon
There Are Probably Still Late Fees

The last Blockbuster video store is now a one-off Airbnb rental

Willamette Falls in Oregon City
Not Falling Short

MASS Design Group to lead tribal engagement process for Willamette Falls Riverwalk

Rendering of the Knight Campus, showing a tessellating glass curtain wall and a footbridge
Second Skin

Ennead and Bora Architects’s Knight Campus takes shape with a double-glass facade

A colorful market in Oregon
West by Northwest: Oregon Ways

The mythologies of Oregon’s utopian seekers still informs its design and architecture today

A low-slung, angular pavilion with a photo of a cow on it
Farm-to-Visitor center

Olson Kundig celebrates history and food at Oregon’s Tillamook Creamery

Exterior image of steel clad, timber frame building
Leveraging Context

LEVER Architecture elevates regional materials to new levels of innovation

a rendering of angular building in the daylight
A Building for LeBron

Nike to name Olson Kundig-designed Innovation Building after LeBron James

A view of a ceiling and interior wall made out of various lumber products
Critical Mass

World’s first mass plywood panel approved for 18-story buildings

San Francisco skyline
It’s a Mixed Bag

West Coast sees big wins (and losses) in architecture and urbanism ballot initiatives

Photo of a mass timber high rise under construction
Timberrrrrrrrrrr

Oregon becomes first state to legalize mass timber high rises

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