Arc’teryx, a global leader in high-performance outerwear and equipment, needed a new home for their footwear design studio. Previously renting generic space, the new Arc’teryx Portland Creation Center, designed by Skylab, places footwear design performance center stage.
The Carl’s Way Residence is an undulating, zero energy home nestled into a gently sloping grassy site on Martha’s Vineyard. The volumes are attached by a large deck and dynamically sloping standing seam metal roofs.
This showroom in Portland’s Pearl District highlights the character and quality of the furniture company Blu Dot. Built within a historic warehouse, the 7,300-square-foot project was designed to preserve the spirit of the original industrial building
The Divine House is located along the McKenzie River outside of Eugene, Oregon. The spaces of the Divine house are defined using of a series of ‘solid’ volumes …
At the end of a long, sinuous road elevated high above the city in Portland’s beloved Forest Park, the Royal residence is perched elegantly at the coveted ecotone of forest and city along Royal Boulevard.
Tucked on a steeply sloping site with expansive views of the city and mountains, Myrtle View House is a complete reimagining of an existing 1950’s residence.
The Trout Lake retreat contains four distinct buildings arranged in two groupings. The first grouping contains the main house, a woodworking shop, and a carport all contained under a single roof in a T-shape. A covered courtyard connects the three spaces in the middle of the “T”.
Designed by Ibsen Nelsen in 1961, the layout of this mid-century home was very well considered but the character and flow between spaces wasn’t a good fit for the daily patterns of the new owners.
