Current Projects

Portland, Oregon

Soren Rasmussen Architects has taken the role as design architect and primary consultant on this 500,000 square feet, $200 million USD project. The project consists of four 10-storey residential towers located on a prime riverfront site in Portland’s Pearl District.

The design concept embraces water as a theme that links the development with the river. Each tower is set into the project’s 3 acre, landscape-designed water feature that interacts with Portland City’s riverfront greenway pedestrian path system.

The office has worked closely with the City of Portland to create a design concept that is site responsive as well as addressing broader urban issues of the sites context. Each building uses a concept of tapering collective forms to maximize pedestrian level view corridors whilst also affording optimal sightlines for the buildings occupants.

More information about Waterfront Pearl can be found on the website www.waterfrontpearl.com

Rendering above by Eugene Radvenis

Emily Carr Institute

Renovations and Expansion

Vancouver, BC

The recipient of a federal $1.5 million grant, with matching provincial funds, a new 6300 square feet Intersections Digital Studio has been added to Emily Carr Institute.

Finished for occupancy September 2006, the state-of-the-art facility will provide advanced research facilities for mixed media, visualization tools, digital imaging, and interactive, mediated physical and virtual spaces.