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Jul 28, 2014

Sober treatment and living facility completed

O’Neill/Walsh Community Builders recently completed work on an $18 million substance abuse treatment center and affordable substance-free housing facility in Northeast Portland. The three-story building’s east wing, called the Center […]

Jul 23, 2014

Holst designer awarded AIA scholarship

  The American Institute of Architects has awarded a scholarship that will cover cost of the Architect Registration Examination to a Portland-based architectural designer. Holst Architecture staffer Rachel Brand was […]

Nov 18, 2013

Substance abuse treatment and housing facility rising in NE Portland

O’Neill/Walsh Community Builders is building a drug and alcohol treatment and living facility in Northeast Portland for Home Forward and LifeWorks Northwest. The three-story treatment wing of the facility will […]

Oct 17, 2013

Developers team up to fill commercial gap in North Portland

Kaiser Group – led by Portland architect Ben Kaiser – recently broke ground on an uber-efficient, speculative office building as part of a development along North Fremont Street, between Williams and Vancouver avenues. The Radiator Building and two other buildings will total approximately 115,000 square feet of office and retail at One North.

Jul 31, 2013

Renovation in the works for Lloyd District hotel

Grand Ventures Hotel LLC, the new owner of the Red Lion hotel near the Oregon Convention Center, is planning to spend $10 million renovating the building, despite talk of a 600-room hotel being built expressly for convention attendees.

Jan 28, 2013

Glisan Commons rising

Eric Chavez, left, and Troy Erkenbeck, both laborers with Whitaker/Ellis, pour footings for Glisan Commons in Northeast Portland. The mixed-use building is being built by general contractor R&H Colas Construction. […]

Jan 3, 2013

Diversification key to architects’ survival

In the wake of the recession, many local architectural firms have had to expand the scope of their services to find new avenues of business in a shrinking marketplace. As the economy begins to recover, those efforts appear to be paying off – 2012 produced the strongest growth in the architecture industry in five years.

Nov 27, 2012

Housing complex designed for Con-way site redevelopment

Con-way is still working through its plan to develop 16 acres in Northwest Portland, but one project for the area has already been designed by Holst Architecture.

Apr 3, 2012

Oregon home to meet trifecta of green rating systems

Holst Architecture and Hammer and Hand designed a house that will serve as a case study for sustainable design certifications.

Oct 31, 2011

Home building team shoots for 3 green standards

The Karuna House is designed to attain three green ratings - Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Homes platinum, Passive House and Minergie-P-ECO. The private home being built in Yamhill County is billed by the project team as a case study in green building science.

Aug 5, 2011

Affordable housing project finds funding, improves chances

A project by nonprofit Human Solutions to build a transit-oriented, affordable housing project in the Gateway area of Northeast Portland had fizzled in the past. But now it has financial backing from state and federal tax credits, private foundations and a helping of urban renewal dollars.

Jun 14, 2011

Designing for dignity in the Bud Clark Commons shelter

I recently took a tour of Bud Clark Commons – a center for the homeless – with a group of architects and contractors through American Institute of Architects Portland. Our […]



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