230 Ash Receives LEED Platinum Award
April 29, 2020
We are pleased to announce 230 Ash has received the highest LEED certification possible – Platinum. LEED analyzes a building’s impact on the environment and evaluates decisions made in site selection, energy and water use efficiency, the materials used for construction, indoor air quality, and sustainability. The award is a recognition of a building’s design ...
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US Customs House Wins Restore Oregon’s DeMuro Award
November 12, 2019
The DeMuro Award promotes historic preservation and reuse in Oregon by celebrating outstanding rehabilitation projects, and sharing the lessons learned from those case studies. It also honors the legacy of our community member, Art DeMuro, whose career embodied vision, persistence, creativity, excellence, and sound economics. GBD’s U.S. Custom House renovation was honored to be a ...
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Craig Norman wins IIDA Oregon’s Legacy Award
October 12, 2019
The Legacy Award recognizes a person, company or organization whose contributions have advanced the Interior Design profession and enriched Interior Design in Oregon. They show exemplified traits with values held by the IIDA Oregon Chapter, including advocacy, mentorship, design innovation and sustainable leadership. We are thrilled that the winner of this year’s Legacy Award is ...
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Hassalo on Eighth Becomes First Project in the World to Achieve LEED V4 Platinum Certification for Neighborhood Development
June 10, 2019
We are excited to announce that, among its many achievements, Hassalo on Eighth has become the world’s first recipient of the LEED v.4 for Neighborhood Development (LEED v4 ND) Platinum Certification. Located in the heart of Portland’s Lloyd neighborhood, Hassalo on Eighth transformed an existing asphalt parking lot into a thriving community, with three mixed-use ...
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Block 216 Receives Design Approval
December 14, 2018
Yesterday the Portland Design Commission unanimously approved Block 216. This milestone building will be Portland’s first project built on the Greenloop, and the largest development in the city since the US Bank Tower! The 35-story mixed-use tower will house condos, hotel, offices, retail, parking, event space, as well as a spa and restaurant on the 20th ...
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2018 Promotions
December 2, 2018
At GBD, we aim for something different. We make buildings that work hard, like we do. Buildings that are honest, wise, and give out more than they consume. We make thoughtfully and artfully crafted spaces that are quiet, majestic solutions to real human problems—not the source of new ones. We focus all of our talent and ...
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Broadway Tower Progressing in Downtown
July 20, 2018
Broadway Tower is nearly complete. The new mixed-use high-rise building located on a half block in Portland’s South Park Blocks will receive its certificate of occupancy in mid-October. The 309,000 square foot, 19-story building will combine the United States’ 2nd Radisson Red hotel, (including a world class bar and restaurant), with 175,000 square feet of Class A ...
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GBD Hosts WSU Graduate Design Studio
July 3, 2018
For seven weeks this summer, GBD has had the pleasure of hosting a Washington State University graduate architecture studio in our office. 15 students moved to Portland for the summer, relocating their homebase to GBD’s office while working to design eight blocks of a massive mixed-use project. The studio, led by Ashley Koger, Paul Soper and a team of ...
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GBD Celebrates LEED Milestones
March 14, 2018
With more than 11 million square feet of LEED-certified projects built over the last 14 years—including Portland’s Brewery Blocks, The Portland Armory, and the Lloyd EcoDistrict—the visionary firm takes sustainable design to a new scale. With the recent LEED® Gold certification of The Osprey Apartments in Portland’s South Waterfront, GBD reached a significant milestone: our 50th LEED-certified ...
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Helios opening: helping to transform downtown Seattle
March 8, 2018
After three years of construction, Helios (formerly 2nd & Pine), was completed and opened its doors in September of last year, and standing at 440 ft, the tower has begun to make an impact downtown. For years, the parcel was an open pit. Later, it was a surface parking lot. What was once a glaring ‘gap’ ...
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