230 Ash
May 18, 2020
230 Ash is a mixed-use, mixed-income apartment building nestled into Portland’s Skidmore/Old Town Historic District – providing new light to an area of town that has only recently begun to see more ambitious residential developments. The 122,000 square foot building covers half a block and fits in amid the vibrant scene on Second Avenue where ...
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Museum Place Master Plan
February 26, 2020
Museum Place envisioned over 300 units of mixed-income rental housing, 200-250 market rate condominiums, a new and expanded Safeway grocery store, a completely renovated YWCA, neighborhood retail, public open space and parking accommodations. In addition to providing a variety of housing and employment opportunities, Museum Place offers an exciting environment in which to live, shop, ...
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Broadway Tower – Radisson Red
January 31, 2020
The new Radisson RED in Portland occupies the first eight floors of a 19-story mixed-use building, known as Broadway Tower. Radisson RED is driven and enhanced through local art, music and fashion and appeals to guests who have an ageless millennial mindset. The hotel’s design builds flow between spaces, breaking down walls traditional hotels use ...
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830 Oregon Square Building Redevelopment
January 31, 2020
Located at a convergence of Portland’s most interesting eastside neighborhoods, the 830 Oregon Square Building is part of the development that has fundamentally transformed this neighborhood into a vibrant place for people to live, work, and play. GBD took the opportunity to repair this urban fabric by introducing a mixed-use, dense development that creates a ...
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Markowitz Herbold
October 2, 2019
Markowitz Herbold is known as one of the premier litigation firms in the Pacific Northwest. Their 26 year history has been marked with top-floor suites in several of Portland’s most notable buildings. As a result, it came as no surprise the firm decided to lease the top two floors of Portland’s newest mixed-use high-rise. Conceptually, ...
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Block 216
April 1, 2019
Located on the last undeveloped full block in downtown Portland, Block 216 will soon house a 35-story mixed use tower. The milestone building will be Portland’s first project built on the Greenloop, and the largest development in the city since the US Bank Tower. At 1,029,780 square feet, the project will likely be the largest ...
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200 Mesnager
April 1, 2019
200 Mesnager is a mixed-use multi-family development in a currently industrial area of downtown Los Angeles called the Cornfield. The area is evolving from its industrial ancestry to a neighborhood of housing, office, and an eclectic collection of businesses. The existing pedestrian circumstance around the site lacks urbanity with occasional sidewalks and few active uses. ...
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ZRZ Headquarters
April 1, 2019
The new ZRZ Realty office needed to be forward-thinking, modern, and sophisticated, while balancing tradition and the company’s history – dating back to the 1920’s when Yeschie Zajdell (Sam Zidell) arrived in Portland from a small Russian village and founded the Zidell Yards. Our mission was to figure out how to do that. While touring ...
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The Carson
April 1, 2019
From asphalt surface parking lot to a vibrant pedestrian community, the transformation of the Conway freight company parking lot into The Carson is a remarkable story of urban rejuvenation. As the architect of the original Conway freight company headquarters buildings in the 1980’s, our design team had an opportunity to first create a master plan ...
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Vacasa
January 31, 2019
With a casual industrial vibe and an abundance of room to grow, Vacasa’s office design in the new Heartline building makes going to work feel like coming home. Tasked with designing a space that feels like a neighborhood coffee shop, our team utilized smaller scale residential materials and a versatile layout to create a welcoming ...
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