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• New Celebrity on the East Side

  25Aug
  Categories: Apartments, Architecture, Hawthorne neighborhood, Living Green, Portland Comments Off
  

  The bigger celebrity is definitely The 20

  With his distinct voice and repertoire of real estate catch phrases, its easy to see why the Portland media simply loves Damin Tarlow. However, the real celebrity over the last few days has not been Damin, but the building he has spoken so much about, The 20 on Hawthorne and its unique parking garage.

  Major media outlets including The Oregonian, KGW Channel 8, The Daily Journal of Commerce, and KOIN Local 6, have flocked to The 20 recently to view the innovative ideas only the likes of Gerding Edlen and GBD Architects can provide.

  While the puzzle lift parking system, installed and built by Harding Steel, receives the majority of the attention, we can’t overlook the smart design of the apartments which are certainly why The 20 is over 50% occupied and 70% leased in only a couple months of being open.

  Take a look at the links below and maybe you’ll see why the media has created a new celebrity on the East Side.

  http://blog.oregonlive.com/commuting/2009/08/portlands_new_commuting_toy_ro.html

  http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/08/21/parking-robot-stacks-the-deck/

  http://www.kgw.com/video/video-index.html?nvid=392036&shu=1

  http://www.koinlocal6.com/content/mediacenter/default.aspx?videoId=11891@koin.dayport.com&navCatId=345

• Oregon Sustainability Center

  24Aug
  Categories: Architecture, Living Building Challenge, Living Green, OR, Portland Comments Off

  It’s hard to find a more emblematic project for the contemporary sustainability movement than the Oregon Sustainability Center. Now in the final stages of a feasibility study, this highly sustainable high rise in Portland, Ore., combines the efforts of the nonprofit, education, business, and public sectors to create a building that adheres to the most stringent sustainability certification standard that exists, and uses several distinct design languages and systems to get there. It takes the sustainability conversation out of the design lab and into classrooms, civil servant offices, business board rooms, and nonprofit outreach centers. The center will serve many functions: offices for nonprofits and businesses, university classrooms, a place for building performance research. Its designers and tenants hope it will emerge as a literal icon of sustainable urbanism for one of the nation’s most progressively green states and cities.

  Developed by Gerding Edlen and Designed by both GBD Architects (Designers of The 20 on Hawthorne) and SERA Architects, this building will be entered into the Living Building Challenge. Any building that wins the Living Building title must perform at net-zero energy, water, and waste. Essentially, the challenge requires buildings to be nearly as environmentally unobtrusive as a tree. No one has yet succeeded in meeting the Living Building Challenge.

  http://info.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek09/0619/0619d_oregon.cfm