NW Natural
March 10, 2021
For more than 160 years, NW Natural has served the Pacific NW. When they sought to create a new HQ that balanced the refinement of an office with the grittiness of pipeline construction, the GBD team created an interior build-out design that met the energy goals and functionality of a critical, 24/7 operation; including efficient ...
Read More +230 Ash
May 18, 2020
230 Ash is a mixed-use, mixed-income apartment building nestled into Portland’s Skidmore/Old Town Historic District – providing new light to an area of town that has only recently begun to see more ambitious residential developments. The 122,000 square foot building covers half a block and fits in amid the vibrant scene on Second Avenue where ...
Read More +Museum Place Master Plan
February 26, 2020
Museum Place envisioned over 300 units of mixed-income rental housing, 200-250 market rate condominiums, a new and expanded Safeway grocery store, a completely renovated YWCA, neighborhood retail, public open space and parking accommodations. In addition to providing a variety of housing and employment opportunities, Museum Place offers an exciting environment in which to live, shop, ...
Read More +Broadway Tower – Hotel Vance
January 31, 2020
Formerly Radisson RED Hotel Vance is driven and enhanced through local art, music, and fashion and appeals to guests with an ageless millennial mindset. The hotel’s design builds flow between spaces, breaking down walls traditional hotels use to separate areas such as the lobby, restaurants, bars, and meeting spaces. The hotel’s design marries these traditional ...
Read More +830 Oregon Square Building Redevelopment
January 31, 2020
Located at a convergence of Portland’s most interesting eastside neighborhoods, the 830 Oregon Square Building is part of the development that has fundamentally transformed this neighborhood into a vibrant place for people to live, work, and play. GBD took the opportunity to repair this urban fabric by introducing a mixed-use, dense development that creates a ...
Read More +Markowitz Herbold
October 2, 2019
Markowitz Herbold is known as one of the premier litigation firms in the Pacific Northwest. Their 26 year history has been marked with top-floor suites in several of Portland’s most notable buildings. As a result, it came as no surprise the firm decided to lease the top two floors of Portland’s newest mixed-use high-rise. Conceptually, ...
Read More +Block 216 – Ritz-Carlton
April 1, 2019
Located on the last undeveloped full block in downtown Portland, Block 216 will soon house a 35-story mixed use tower. The milestone building will be Portland’s first project built on the Greenloop, and the largest development in the city since the US Bank Tower. At 1,029,780 square feet, the project will likely be the largest ...
Read More +200 Mesnager
April 1, 2019
200 Mesnager is a mixed-use multi-family development in a currently industrial area of downtown Los Angeles called the Cornfield. The area is evolving from its industrial ancestry to a neighborhood of housing, office, and an eclectic collection of businesses. The existing pedestrian circumstance around the site lacks urbanity with occasional sidewalks and few active uses. ...
Read More +ZRZ Headquarters
April 1, 2019
The new ZRZ Realty office needed to be forward-thinking, modern, and sophisticated, while balancing tradition and the company’s history – dating back to the 1920’s when Yeschie Zajdell (Sam Zidell) arrived in Portland from a small Russian village and founded the Zidell Yards. Our mission was to figure out how to do that. While touring ...
Read More +The Carson
April 1, 2019
From asphalt surface parking lot to a vibrant pedestrian community, the transformation of the Conway freight company parking lot into The Carson is a remarkable story of urban rejuvenation. As the architect of the original Conway freight company headquarters buildings in the 1980’s, our design team had an opportunity to first create a master plan ...
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