2017 Best of Design Awards for Office & Retail

By Daisy Alioto
The Architect’s Newspaper
December 7, 2017
Category: Wood, Paper & Green Building
Region: United States, US West

Albina Yard—Architect: LEVER Architecture, Location: Portland, OregonAlbina Yard is the first building in the United States made from domestically fabricated cross-laminated timber (CLT). This new 16,000-square-foot speculative office building utilizes mass timber construction, with a glue-laminated timber frame and CLT panels manufactured and prefabricated in Riddle, Oregon. The project’s primary goal was to utilize domestic CLT in a market-rate office building that would pave the way for broader adoption of renewable mass timber construction technologies in Oregon and the United States.

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