Portland City Storage
Well, my ninjas, the designers [David Soderstrom Architects - who have no webpage - enter the millennium, my ninja] pulled no punches when working on the new Portland City Storage building. First off, yes – I said storage building, as in a place for you to rent space and store all that crap you have no room for but won’t throw/give away. Surprisingly enough, not only did the designers give the building an interesting aesthetic quality, but they’re also making it super sustainable [or trying to, anyways]. Striving for LEED Platinum status, the building will have over 100,000 square feet of photovoltaic panels on its roof and south side [it is in Portland tho, so I wonder how much that matters] – making it the largest solar farm in the North West. MyNinjaPlease!

Sustainable/green features include:
-view corridor between the towers, to preserve existing views of the surrounding area
-connection to bike and walking trails, with riverfront access
-removal of an existing concrete sea wall and restoration of a 75′ greenway habitat along the riverbank
-those solar panels, 100,000 SF, along the roof and south side – surplus power will be sold to the local utility
-’eco-roofs’ for stormwater management
-storage for 100 bikes
-and a community center, because social sustainability is important too, my ninjas!
::images & info via Portland City Storage – project found at www.metaefficient.com::
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Posted: August 14th, 2007
at 6:01am by orangemenace
Categories: architecture, green arch, my ninja, please, towering pagodas
Comments: 4 comments
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architects website:
http://www.sdra.com/index.htm
lloyd alter
15 Aug 07 at 8:06 am
I can see the piles of songbirds at the base of this reflective so-called biobuilding… they for sure will smack right into it and break their little necks. Why does no one realize that the greenest response of all is to avoid new development? Why are there no IBC or LEED standards for protecting migratory birds?
No one cares about the birds. I guess there is just too much else to care about.
Bird fan
15 Aug 07 at 1:28 pm
the buildings sure look very modern..
modern architecture gives us new designs and all but nothing beats the traditional japanese architecture or european, to mention a few..
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17 Jul 08 at 5:04 am
Thanks Lloyd.
ab
21 Nov 08 at 10:45 am