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Arc’teryx, a global design company specializing in technical high-performance outerwear and equipment, was in need of a new home for their footwear design studio. Previously renting generic space, the new Arc’teryx Portland Creation Center places footwear design performance center stage, supporting administrative and creative review processes. “We...
Project name
Skylab designs the new Arc’teryx Portland Creation Center in Portland, Oregon
Architecture firm
Skylab Architecture
Location
Portland, Oregon, USA
Photography
Jeremy Bittermann
Located across the Willamette River from downtown Portland, the YARD is a 21-story, 343,100-square-foot mixed-use apartment building that rises above the famous Burnside Bridge. The roof of the podium elevates a native planted landscape to the level of the bridge to create a shared community landscape environment, while its folded roof shape abstra...
Project name
YARD
Architecture firm
Skylab Architecture
Location
Portland, Oregon, USA
Photography
Maria Lamb, Stephen Miller, Brian Walker Lee
The Taft is a 3,930-square-foot, two-story, open plan house designed and built using HOMB, a prefabricated modular system developed by Skylab in collaboration with MethodHomes. The system provides an alternative to the typical time-consuming process of conventional site construction while also minimizing waste through precision prefabrication.
Project name
Taft
Architecture firm
Skylab Architecture
Location
Portland, Oregon, USA
Photography
Michael Cogliantry, Jeff Van Bergen (construction photos by Skylab)
From highly crafted residences to impactful cultural projects, this uniquely designed book— conceived as a double vinyl album—offers a detailed look at Skylab's innovative work. Skylab: The Nature of Buildings is the first monograph of the Portland, Oregon-based architecture and design studio.
Title
Skylab The Nature of Buildings
Author
Jeff Kovel, Introduction by Mimi Zeiger With contributions by John Hoke, Mauricio Villarreal, and Randy Gragg
Category
Architecture, Interior Design
Designed to serve as catalyst for a sustainable, densely planned residential mountaintop village, Skylodge is a 5,500-square-foot event center built on a 10,000-acre ski mountain in Utah. Set at 8,900 feet, the short construction window necessitated an innovative approach. Employing modular and prefabricated construction, enabled the construction t...
Project name
Skylodge
Architecture firm
Skylab Architecture
Location
Powder Mountain, Utah, USA
Photography
Boone Speed
Once complete, the complex will provide over 10,000 square feet of interior space for experimentation, design, and fabrication that Skylab will share with PDX Contemporary Art. The project is expected to be completed by summer 2023.
Project name
Skylab HQ
Architecture firm
Skylab Architecture
Location
Portland, Oregon, USA
Civic Park, a sports complex designed to reinvigorate the community and initiate the next era of physical education, recreation, and civic connection in Eugene, Oregon. Rising from the ashes of the fire that destroyed the iconic Eugene Civic Stadium.
Project name
Civic Park
Architecture firm
Skylab Architecture
Location
Eugene, Oregon, USA
Photography
Stephen A. Miller
Flavor Paper is a bold, adaptive-reuse project transforming a four-story concrete parking garage in Brooklyn, New York into a 13,500 sf hybridized commercial and residential space.
Project name
Flavor Paper Headquarters
Architecture firm
Skylab Architecture
Location
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Photography
Boone Speed