Mass Timber Office Building in North Portland

Antonio Pacheco, Essay, High Density, Technology and fabrication, The Architect’s Newspaper

City Plan, Collaborative work, Energy consciousness, Energy consumption, Essay, Future development, Office building, Production, Structural Plywood, Technology, Timber, Wood

In Portland, Oregon, even the buildings are bespoke and locally-sourced. At least, that’s the case with Lever Architecture’s Albina Yard project, where the developer—Portland-based Reworks—tasked the architects with creating a marquee structure that could be used as a testing site and showroom for emerging mass timber systems built from locally-sourced lumber.