The annual Student Design Exhibition and Fashion Show will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 5, at Oregon State University’s CH2M-Hill Alumni Center. Doors open at 6 p.m.
The event, called “Glamour Confidential,†is organized by students in the Department of Design and Human Environment in the College of Health and Human Sciences. This [...]
The annual Student Design Exhibition and Fashion Show will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 5, at Oregon State University’s CH2M-Hill Alumni Center. Doors open at 6 p.m.
The event, called “Glamour Confidential,†is organized by students in the Department of Design and Human Environment in the College of Health and Human Sciences. This [...]
Granite Construction Incorporated (NYSE:GVA) announced that Granite Construction Company, a wholly owned subsidiary, has formally requested that the Oregon Department of Transportation (”ODOT”) terminate its contract to build the US 20 Pioneer Mountain to Eddyville Design-Build project. The $130 million contract was awarded in July 2005 to Yaquina River Constructors (”YRC”), a joint venture of [...]
Granite Construction Incorporated announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets of The Superior Group of Companies, a Pacific Northwest-based construction materials producer and asphalt paving company for an estimated purchase price at closing of between $56.8 million and $59.8 million in cash.
Under the signed agreement, Granite will purchase certain assets of [...]
Pacific Ethanol, Inc., the largest West Coast-based marketer and producer of ethanol, today announced that it has received all the discretionary permits necessary to begin construction of a 50 million gallon per year ethanol facility located adjacent to the city of Calipatria, California. The Company further stated that it expects to begin construction, which should [...]
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle has awarded over $300,000 in Affordable Housing Program grants for two projects being developed by the YWCA of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County and Habitat for Humanity of Seattle/South King County. The winning grant applications were sponsored by Seattle-based HomeStreet Bank, one of the largest privately owned banks in the [...]
Artist and architect Maya Lin for a two-day Visiting Artist residency in the Hot Shop on March 16 and 17, 2007. During her residency, Lin will direct with the Hot Shop Team as they experiment with creating hot-sculpted clear glass “water drop†forms. These forms will be incorporated into an installation that will be included [...]
Traveling the United States has, among other things, gently tutored me that the residents of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., pronounce their town’s name WILKS-bree, not Wilks-BAR; that the good citizens of Vermont call their capital MontPEELyer, not MontepeLEER, and that that lovely town in southern California is called LaHOYA even though it’s spelled La Jolla. These are [...]
This may be the year when environmentally focused architecture gets serious, driven by global climate change. Even smog-swaddled China is jumping on the eco-bandwagon.
Several U.S. cities — including San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Austin — now require use of guidelines developed by the U.S. Green Building Council for public projects. (Called LEED, the guidelines encourage [...]
SERA Architects, based in Portland, Oregon, is an established, employee-owned architecture, interiors and urban planning firm. Creating great design with commitment to sustainability is our culture. Our diverse portfolio of award winning work includes institutional, commercial, adaptive urban re-use and historic preservation projects. We offer a full complement of benefits to our staff of 85, [...]
After studying landscape architecture at Cornell University in the 1930s, Ruth Shellhorn traveled home to South Pasadena on a mail boat through the Panama Canal. On her journey, she kept a meticulous diary of the exotic plants she encountered in Central and South America: bougainvillea, palm trees, birds of paradise.
With her rigorous training and new [...]
Firm: Yost Grube Hall, principal Mentors and guides: Bauhaus master Marcel Breuer; world-renowned architect Louis Kahn, under whom Vaivoda studied at the University of Pennsylvania. What a client says: For Bob Borghorst, Vaivoda brought dialogue and vision to a job that had flummoxed Borghorst.
“He asked me my likes and dislikes, and it turned out [...]