Workplace · 2025
Anchor Street Offices
A 1968 print works converted into offices that keep the industrial character and add the light the machines never needed.
- Location
- Portland, OR
- Year
- 2025
- Area
- 6,200 m²
- Status
- In progress
- Scope
- Adaptive reuse · former print works
The client bought a printing works the size of a football pitch and asked us to make it feel like a small town rather than a single building. The answer was to cut three light courts into the roof, plant a real street down the middle, and give every floor a front door.
The structure is spectacular and untouched — concrete frames, wide bays, a sawtooth roof we saved and reglazed. New work is deliberately quiet: timber linings, glass partitions, and services organised in corridors you can stand up in.
Targeting LEED Gold, the project reuses the entire envelope and 70% of the structure. The first tenants move in next spring, when the street of offices gets its first plants.
In progress / on site
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