The Rise of Wooden High-Rises

The first thing you notice when you walk into the office of Lever Architecture, in Portland, Oregon, is the smell: fresh, sweet, and vaguely Christmassy. That’s because Albina Yard, the year-old building that houses the office, was built out of fragrant Douglas fir. “It’s a space people immediately respond to on an emotional level,” says Thomas Robinson, Lever’s founder and the building’s architect.

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From “Timber Land” by Amanda Kolson Hurley for The Atlantic. Photo by Jeremy Bitterman for The Architect’s Newspaper 

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