CASE STUDIES BLOCK 2: BREW HOUSE & CELLAR BUILDING
LA GRANDE ORANGE (LGO)
BELMAR
QUEEN ANNE HIGH SCHOOL
THE APTHORP
Former Blitz-Weinhard Brewery building preservation and redevelopment into LEED Gold office/retail within a fiveblock, urban mixed-use neighborhood in Portland’s “Brewery Blocks”.
LGO is a compilation of food services that include an organic coffee and breakfast bar, cafe, pizzeria and “funky” grocery with locations in Arizona and California.
ARCHITECT/DESIGNER: Gerding Edlen
ARCHITECTS/DESIGNER: Hayes inc - Architecture & Interiors
This project is a conversion of the former Villa Italia shopping mall into an entirely new downtown for the city of Lakewood, CO. It incorporates several sustainable retail, commercial and residential buildings who’s aesthetic focus is to highlight unique local works of art.
Queen Anne High School was built in 1909 and was converted into apartments after the school closed due to decreasing enrollment. The building has recently been converted into highend condominiums. Original chalkboards and other architectural elements were salvaged and reused as part of the new aesthetic.
The Apthorp was first completed as an apartment building in 1908 and was recently converted to condominiums in 2008. This conversion is considered to be one of the most expensive condo restoration projects ever. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
DESIGNER: Elkus-Manfredi, Civatas DEVELOPER: Continuum Partners
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Stephen Sills
ARCHITECT/DESIGNER: Lorig
“The food is simple and clean with no hidden ingredients - honest and organic when possible.”
“...we celebrate the gray. We think of these spaces between public and private as front porches or thresholds, and we’ve created a rich toolbox to help make great gray spaces.”
“With your head full of your brains and your shoes full of your feet you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street.” - Dr. Seuss
“...there was something ‘emotional’ for him about the Apthorp, he said. As in fashion, beauty in architecture is ‘an instinct, it’s a feeling,’ Mr. Elbaz said. ‘It’s not a formula. I just went there and there was something about the apartment, the ceilings, the moldings. The whole thing, it was almost majestic.” - An excerpt from “The New York Times”