On Saturday 12 February 2011, the City of Damascus (Oregon) hosted the first of its two Civic Ecology Workshops at Damascus City Hall. The workshop was facilitated by staff from SERA Architects and CH2M HILL as part of on-going sustainability planning efforts for the City. The premise behind Civic Ecology is that attaining sustainability requires […]
Project Architect and SERA Associate Gary Golla led a team of SERA employees that developed and submitted a concept for the 2011 Radical Innovation in Hospitality Award competition. The objective of this annual competition is “to discover, identify, and explore radically innovative hospitality concepts: open, in development, and/or in conceptual form.” Past winning designs have included […]
Founded in 1856, Western Oregon University is Oregon’s oldest public university. Located in Monmouth, WOU offers a variety of academic and athletic programs; it has experienced a steady increase in both undergraduate and graduate student populations over the past five years. SERA’s Gregg Sanders, Eric Ridenour, and Anneliese Sitterly teamed up to provide the University with […]
Matt Arnold and I recently returned from a three-day trip to Sisters, Oregon, where we presented five different streetscape design concepts for Cascade Avenue at the core of the city’s downtown. Cascade Avenue is also US 20, an ODOT-owned roadway that links Central Oregon to the Willamette Valley via Santiam Pass. The roadway itself needs to […]