Overall, Phase 1 construction is going well.
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…in the Higher Education category, Tykeson Hall at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Tykeson Hall houses student resources for the College of Arts and Sciences and much-needed classroom and faculty office space within the heart of the university.
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Month two of Working-From-Home (WFH) is well underway… I asked around for reflections on how it’s going so far – here are some of our answers.
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Sometimes the keys to the future can be found in the past. That’s one of the core principles (pun intended) of Oregon State University’s Marine and Geology Repository, which holds one of the nation’s largest collections of oceanic sediment cores.
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Swing by the UO Tykeson Hall west lawn and roof terrace to enjoy daffodils blooming in this cold, sunny weather.
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North Eugene High School. Where will it be? The new high school will be built on the west end of the property, where the high school baseball field and former Silver Lea Elementary building are located. When will it finish? This will be the second school completed, in 2023. Construction starts this year.
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U.S. WoodWorks announced its 2020 Wood Design Awards. The Arts and Technology Academy won the Wood in Schools award.
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“Since 1975, the Oregon Arts Commission has managed the state’s Percent for Art Program, which stipulates that one percent of the construction budget for a public building shall be set aside for art… The art acquired for Tykeson Hall ranges from nature photographs to oil paintings to a five-story interactive sculpture in the main stairwell—all of which amplify the natural environment thematics and color schemes in the building.”
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The UO requested approval to move forward with the first of three phases in its Housing Transformation project. The board unanimously approved the cost for the first phase, which is not to exceed $101 million. The total cost for the project is approximately $218 million to $225 million.
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SquareOne Villages and the Cottage Village Coalition are currently in the process of developing Cottage Village, a community of 13 tiny homes that will provide permanent, affordable housing in Cottage Grove, OR. Rowell Brokaw is proud to be one of three local design firms that have partnered with SquareOne Villages to support the project…
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Slated to open 2019 Fall term, Tykeson will soon serve thousands of students and faculty. Each of Tykeson’s floors was designed to evoke a unique Oregon landscape, and is linked to the other floors by a 3-story interactive art installation that hangs in the central stair.
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In November 2018, Eugene voters approved Bond Measure 20-279 to fund capital improvements benefiting all of Eugene’s 4J public schools. North Eugene High School is one of three schools with aging facilities that will be completely redesigned and replaced, thanks to the 4J bond measure.
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Opened last November, Amazon Corner is a five-story, mixed-use, bicycle-friendly development on Hilyard Street in Eugene. It won the award for achievement designing or building complete neighborhoods where many basic services are within walking distance.
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The Oregon State House and Senate recently passed HB 2682, a bill that clarifies a bicyclist’s right-of-way when riding in a continuous bike lane through an intersection. The very concise bill states, “Where the markings of a bicycle lane are interrupted by an intersection, the bicycle lane continues in and through the intersection.” This is true of any lane of travel that passes through an intersection, but two cases in which traffic court judges excused drivers for hitting bicyclists while in intersections prompted the clarifying bill.
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The University of Oregon plans to demolish and rebuild two of its dorms starting this fall costing more than $200 million, making it the largest transformation to its on-campus housing ever. This comes just after a record-breaking number of prospective students attending a campus tour day this month.
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Oregon Pacific Bank recently moved their Eugene branch to 11th and Oak in downtown Eugene. The new branch encompasses roughly 8,200 square feet on two floors, enabling OPB to expand their local presence. Rowell Brokaw was hired to design the renovated space to reflect OPB’s lighthearted culture and company identity.
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A follow-up project to the first Rethinking Streets (2013), Rethinking Streets for Bikes presents 25 case studies of bicycle-friendly infrastructure improvements in the United States and Canada. “There are lessons to be learned from individual projects and from the collection as a whole, which shows a diverse set of communities all successfully implementing a wide range of high quality bicycle transportation infrastructure.” (Marc Schlossberg, co-author)
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UO Campus Housing selected Rowell Brokaw, partnered with Mithun, to design new residence halls that will replace the Hamilton and Walton Complexes on the University of Oregon’s Eugene campus. The two-phase project will include two new residence hall complexes, a visitor’s center, landscaped outdoor spaces, and amenities for students, staff, and visitors.
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