A new article titled “Designing for Small Spaces: Curated Life” appears in this month’s Portland Monthly Magazine featuring the Janey Apartments designed by GBD Architects. As lead designer Agustin Enriquez mentions in the article, “We wanted to see how small we could make the units and not…

New Seasons Market has officially signed on to join developer C.E. John Company to revive the 16-acre, mixed-use Con-way site in Northwest Portland. The locally owned and operated grocer will convert an old 28,000-square-foot freight warehouse, located at 2170 NW Raleigh St., into a full-service market,…

Maryhill Museum was featured on architecture blog ArchDaily on January 2, 2013.  With close to 50,000 visitors per month, ArchDaily is widely considered one of the Web’s premier architecture blogs.

The Maryhill Museum of Art has won Engineering News-Record Northwest Region’s “Best Cultural Project” award.  The article reads: A tight budget, a rural location on the cliffs above the Columbia River Gorge and a jobsite attached to a 100-year-old museum listed on the National Register…

The Oregonian reported that the Maryhill Museum of Art has seen a 30% rise in attendance since the completion of their expansion, which was completed by GBD in 2012.  The article reads: Maryhill Museum of Art announced Wednesday that attendance this year increased by nearly 30 percent over…

November 27, 2012

GBD Presents: Tyler Nishitani

GBD is hosting mixed-media artist, Tyler Nishitani, for a First Thursday opening. Thursday, November 1st at 5 pm, at GBD’s offices. See invitation for details…we hope you can join us.

GBD Principal, Katherine Schultz, was appointed to the City of Portland Planning & Sustainability Commission on September 26th. Appointed to a four-year term, she recently served as a member of Portland’s Design Commission. We are excited for Katherine and look forward to helping her grow…

Jody Pene, a retired Principal-in-Charge of Interior Design at GBD, is this year’s Gunnilla Finrow Distinguished Lectureship in Interior Architecture at the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts. On Monday, November 12th, Jody presents highlights of her 40-plus-year career in interior architecture.…

October 27, 2012

2012 Employee Promotions

GBD is pleased to announce the following employee promotions. Congrats to all! Aubrey L. Trueb – Accounting & Human Resources Manager Bryon E. Nichols – Information Technology Manager Markus O. Brown, IIDA – Associate Matthew R. Fitzgerald, IIDA, LEED AP BD+C – Associate Jesse B.…

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