The Janey
November 13, 2012
The Janey mixed-use development is located on a quarter-block in Portland’s world-famous Pearl District. It is a 44,500 sq. foot building with five stories of market-rate apartments over ground-level retail and parking. The first level contains approximately 2,600 sq. feet of retail and an innovative, mechanized parking system. Housing levels two through six include 50 ...
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TBA: 13
January 14, 2014
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s (PICA) Time Based Art (TBA) festival occurs each September, establishing an internationally recognized venue for contemporary performance art. GBD supported the ten-day festival in 2013 by designing the built environment at the event’s primary venue space, titled “The Works.” The location of “The Works” changes each year, and for this ...
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Oxbow 49
March 2, 2017
Oxbow 49 contains 166 market rate apartments in southwest Portland’s John’s Landing Neighborhood. In a neighborhood of predominantly surface parking suburban design solutions, the design team crafted an urban place to live outside Portland’s Central City with an exterior skin comprised predominantly of a custom brick blend, with stucco and metal panel accents. The building ...
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PCC Sylvania Campus
March 8, 2017
As PCC Sylvania’s bond architect from 2008 – 2016, GBD spent eight years working on a number of building renovation projects. Our work included 160,000 square feet of renovation, two new buildings, as well as site improvements. The work scope included upgrades to existing buildings, as well as architectural and interior improvements to classrooms, laboratories ...
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Oregon Sustainability Center
December 10, 2012
The Oregon Sustainability Center (OSC) is the collaborative vision of a unique public/private partnership between city and state government, higher education, non-proft organizations and the business community. The project’s mission is to create a world-classcenter of excellence in sustainability that celebrates and nurtures the values and strengths of Oregon’s leadership in climate change, land use ...
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Columbia Sportswear Campus
May 20, 2016
In 2001, GBD renovated and connected three existing buildings, totaling 188,000 square feet, to create Columbia Sportswear’s new World Headquarters. Since then, we have been working with Columbia Sportswear to implement the phased renovations of each of their four campus headquarters buildings—Lillehammer, Islamorada, Big Horn, and the Employee Store. We have transformed more than 130,000 ...
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Atwater Place
December 8, 2012
Located in Portland’s South Waterfront District, Atwater Place is a 23-story, 547,000 sq. foot building that features 214 luxury condominium units, street-level retail (approximately 10,000 sq. feet), and two levels of below-grade parking. Atwater Place is an innovative glass tower—with unprecedented views of the Cascade Mountains and city skyline—right on the Willamette River. Stepped façades ...
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First & Main
November 13, 2011
Located on a constrained site in downtown Portland, First & Main is a Class-A, 19-story, 360,000 sq. foot office building completed in May 2010. Its gateway location, between the Hawthorne Bridge and SW First Avenue, defines the edge of the city and provides spectacular views of the Willamette River and Cascade Mountains. A highly visible, ...
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Trail Blazers Practice Facility
December 10, 2012
The Portland Trailblazers Basketball Practice Facility serves as a world class training and front office operations facility for Portland’s NBA franchise. The renovation provided much needed updates to the original 1998 building, remaking it as one of the best team headquarters in the league. The project consisted of two phases. Phase I updated Player Facilities: ...
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Mozilla
July 14, 2015
GBD completed a new corporate office for the software company, Mozilla. Located on the third floor of the Blitz-Weinhard Brewhouse Tower in Portland’s Brewery Blocks, the office is approximately 7,400 sq feet. One of the main goals in Mozilla’s new space was to facilitate a more open, collaborative environment. Designers achieved this using the following ...
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