Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children’s Hospital began construction earlier this year on a 28,000-square-foot emergency department addition and renovation that will incorporate a bold new 24-hour entry for both the pediatric and adjacent adult emergency departments. More »

The new child-scaled Early Childhood Center at Mt. Hood Community College has received two regional awards for its design. The center won an honor award from the Portland chapter of the American Institute of Architects, as well as an education merit award from the Oregon chapter of the International Interior Design Association. More »

Hope. It's back. Change. It's gonna come. Architectural Daily is endorsing Barack Obama for president. With all the Republican challengers jockying for position and arguing for "smaller government," laissez-fair, lower taxes on the rich and an emboldened military infrastructure, America needs Obama more than ever. More »

A few years ago in Seattle, the city sponsored a design competition for a homeless persons' memorial. Many entrants tried and fell short, with statues and abstract concepts that didn't convey dignity. The winning entry, "Footprints" by Callison Architecture, though highly abstract, was a simple and profound solution: a cement courtyard with the footprints of the homeless embedded in the cement. More »

The newly completed School of Medicine Research Building at the University of California, Riverside, designed by SRG Partnership, Inc., has received top honors for Overall Sustainable Design from the Energy Efficiency Partnership Program Best Practice Awards Competition. More »

Pietro Belluschi's Commonwealth Building and the newly designed suites of the Northwest EnergyEfficiency Alliance, Green Building Services and Element Power were on display recently at an open house. The LEED-CI Gold space is a first of its kind and demonstrates how sustainability is integrated into the build-out and operations. More »

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District has chosen to break new ground, in sustainable terms, for its new operations center. To develop what is slated to become the nation’s largest, most sustainable fleet operations campus, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District – the country’s sixth largest public utility – has awarded a comprehensive contract to the Turner Construction-Stantec design build team to develop their new 51-acre East Campus-Operations Center. More »

Mt. Hood Community College begins construction this fall on an Early Childhood Center whose design was driven by the scale of the children and a desire to create transparent indoor and outdoor learning environments. Site preparation and foundation work are scheduled to begin this month. More »

The John E. Jaqua Center for Student Athletes at the University of Oregon is a new 40,000-square-foot academic learning center accommodates the NCAA-mandated academic services for the tutoring of 520 student athletes. The center, designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects, recently won the 2011 Institute Honor Awards for Interior Architecture. More »

An ecologically sustainable Riverdale K-8 Grade School has opened more than 90 years after the first Riverdale building began educating students in the southwest suburbs of Portland. Targeted for a LEED for Schools Gold certification, the 46,363-square-foot building welcomed its first students in September 14 months after construction began. More »