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East County Library

The two-story East-facing side of PRAx is strongly silhouetted against a bold, blue sky.

Fixed audience seating upholstered in blues, greys, and orange .

A double-height main lobby features continuous, tall glazing that looks to the outside, daylighting a geometric wood feature seating beneath a colorful organic light sculpture.

Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx)

Highlights of 2025, Welcoming 2026

The exterior of Fora Health at dusk, viewed from the edge of the parking lot.

From the courtyard, the two sides of the building come together in the warmly lit, fully glazed lobby.

A view of Fora Health from the back part of the lush, green courtyard, looking down at a winding path that leads to the active area of the courtyard, which features a basketball court, various seating options, and a garden.

A patient walks through the healing garden surrounded by grasses, trees, and flowers.

A view of Fora Health’s bright and airy lobby toward the front door.

A bright art room features two long wooden worktables, easels, a drying rack, and metal studio stools.

Fora Health

Kim Wilson & Renée Strand Receive DJC Oregon Icons Awards

Julia West House

A view of the exterior of the renovated the space between PRAx, the heating plant, and McAlexander Fieldhouse, shows a planted landscape in front of the restored historic Rehearsal Classroom Building, which features white-painted brick and wooden doors.

A view of the exterior of the renovated the space between PRAx, the heating plant, and McAlexander Fieldhouse, shows a planted landscape in front of the restored historic Rehearsal Classroom Building, which features white-painted brick and wooden doors.

Rehearsal Classroom Building Wins 2025 DeMuro Award

The west-facing front entrance to Francis + Clare Place features a warmly lit brick ground floor with three residential floors above.

The sage-and-white building complements a lavender evening sky.

The ground floor community room offers a variety of furniture and a shared kitchen.

A person exits an earthy, orange stairwell into a corridor with windowed offices and a small, carpeted seating area.

Francis + Clare Place

Mass Timber Innovation at East County Library

2025 AIA Oregon Architecture Awards

Kim Krippaehne Named a Woman of Vision

Lake Sylvia Retreat

The Hazel Ying Lee Apartment exterior at sunset.

From across Powell Boulevard, you can see the Northwest corner of the Hazel Ying Lee Apartments on the southern side of the street at dusk.

Residents plant flowers in raised metal garden beds lined up in a central courtyard.

Residents walk through the lobby, which features a wood-clad, curved ceiling.

A colorful children's room hosts a variety of play surfaces.

Hazel Ying Lee Apartments

Oregon’s Tallest Mass Timber Building Opens to Residents

View of the front of Street Roots headquarters from the Burnside and 3rd intersection.

Staff and vendors meet over a reflective, bronze-wrapped counter.

Soft daylight reflects off the wood flooring and white paint in the staff lounge and writing room.

A narrow walkway, framed by tall vines and glass doors, is situated at the edge of the roof deck and classroom.

Street Roots

Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law Library Featured on Detailed Podcast

Holst Announces Six Promotions

Glisan Landing | Aldea

Glisan Landing | Beacon

Holst’s New Website

IRCO Early Beginnings Preschool

Community-Driven Design at East County Library

Holst’s Commitment to Volunteering

Design Philosophy

CATT | Beaverton Recovery Center

CATT | Hillsboro Recovery Center

Holst Announces Brittany Shreiner as New Creative Director

Highlights of 2024, Welcoming 2025

Hannah Rusnac Receives DJC Oregon Phenoms & Icons Award

One North's central courtyard is enjoyed by people on a sunny day.

A curved overhang from the upper floors frames the view of One North's central courtyard.

View of One North's exterior shows how the western face of the building features angular apertures emerging from the building in a shifting stack.

An exterior view of the buildings reveals the courtyard entrance, framed by stacks of white, trapezoidal openings that swoop from the form, with ruddy, cedar-clad curves.

One North

The entrance of Instrument's office space is created with mass timber.

Front view of the atrium's bleacher stair is utilized as an informal meeting space.

A light-filled atrium features a large bleacher stair, polished concrete floors, and Large windows on a white-painted exterior wall.

From the second level, two employees on laptops stand at a wooden bar-height tabletop among industrial barstools looking toward the open atrium.

Instrument

Designing with Mass Timber

The Nick Fish

2024 AIA Oregon Design Awards

PHB Awards Over $40M to Affordable Housing Development

Center for Tribal Nations to Transform Portland Waterfront

Sarah Vaz has Been Appointed to the Portland Design Commission

Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law Library

Sustainable Design in Bhutan

Holst Celebrates Four Promotions

Approaching Sustainability from Every Angle

Holst’s Commitment to Street Roots

View of The Aurora at dusk taken from across the street while a car drives by.

View of The Aurora from the corner.

A woman in a sage green tank top walks down the front steps of a cream-colored brick apartment building, The Aurora, holding the railing.

Three kids play in a fenced-in outdoor play space at The Aurora while a person sits at one of the outdoor tables to supervise them.

A person sits reading a paper while another person is walking into a hallway at The Aurora.

A person in a red jacket walks through the light-filled lobby/mail room of The Aurora.

The Aurora

hollywoodHUB Receives Portland Design Commission’s 2024 Design Excellence Award

Mariposa Village

Hillsboro Year-Round Shelter

Argyle Gardens

Modular Construction in Affordable Housing

hollywoodHUB

Shannon Horton Receives Building Diversity Award

Highlights of 2023, Welcoming 2024

Bud Clark Commons

2023 AIA Oregon Design Awards

A man walks in front of 72Foster’s ground-floor community room’s Nana Walls while two women sit on a bench.

72Foster’s ground-floor community room’s Nana Walls are open, revealing the vibrant floral mural on the room's back wall.

View of the elevators in the lobby, which are surrounded by the blue floral mural.

72Foster

An exterior rendering of 73Foster, viewed from the crosswalk.

An exterior rendering showing the width of 73Foster, an apartment building viewed from across the street.

An interior rendering of 73Foster’s lobby, showing a glimpse of the entrance, the mailboxes, built-in bench seating, and bright yellow chairs.

An interior rendering of an accessible unit in 73Foster.

73Foster

Hannah Rusnac Presents Net Zero Fellowship Research

Lemelson Foundation Office

Portland City Hall Renovation

Carlton Civic Center

Our Values

Brittany Shreiner Named a Woman of Vision

Asian Health & Service Center

From the courtyard, the two sides of the building come together in the warmly lit, fully glazed lobby.

From the courtyard, the two sides of the building come together in the warmly lit, fully glazed lobby.

Fora Health Wins AIA National Healthcare Award

The Peer Company Recovery Campus

Sensory Sensitive Spaces

Multnomah County Library Breaks Ground on Library in East County

Holst Announces Four Promotions

OneTwentyUp

Hearth

A sectional perspective diagram of the Street Roots' new headquarters shows the program spaces on each floor.

A sectional perspective diagram of the Street Roots' new headquarters shows the program spaces on each floor.

Historic Landmarks Commission Recognizes Street Roots as a Project of the Year

The Clara

Ninebark

Argyle Gardens Wins AIA National Housing Award

Highlights of 2022, Welcoming 2023

Holst Headquarters

Sustainability at Holst Headquarters

Seaside Civic & Convention Center

Ecotrust

2022 AIA Oregon Design Awards

Design for Disabled Joy

Beech Street Apartments

Energy Trust of Oregon Awards Research Grant to Holst

The Nick Fish Receives an AIA Northwest & Pacific Region Design Merit Award

Introducing Hannah Silver, Inclusive Design Facilitator

Housing is Healthcare

The Strong Family Apartments

Inclusive Design

Grace Peck Terrace

Sellwood Center

Trauma-Informed Design

Holst Announces Four New Principals

Hazel Ying Lee Apartments Receives Portland Design Commission’s 2021 Design Excellence Award

Gallagher Plaza

Medallion Apartments

Creating a New Blended Model for Visual and Performing Arts at OSU

Weaver Creek Commons

Rockwood Boys & Girls Club

Open School East

Portland Winter Light Festival | Mycelium Lumina

Holst Celebrates 30 Years of Creating Meaningful Architecture that People Love

Champinefu Library

What A Year

Glisan Commons

Affordable Housing is a Public Good

Kalabash Academy

Quality and Craft

The Vanguard

The Fowler

Firm of the Year

Olympia Place

Commissioner Nick Fish intently listening at a Portland City Council meeting.

Commissioner Nick Fish intently listening at a Portland City Council meeting.

Honoring Commissioner Nick Fish

Kendrick Place

Boltwood Place

Ziba Design Headquarters

Holst Promotes Cory Hawbecker to Principal

Giving Back in 2019

Creative Homies

Lewis & Clark College | Fields Dining Hall

Portland Winter Light Festival | Technicolor Dreamboat

Decolonizing Pacific NW Architecture

INTO OSU

Holst is a JUST Organization

Portland Winter Light Festival | Electric Boogaloo

Innovation Through Research

Hotel Modera

Hotel Eastlund

Visiting Bhutan

Slabtown Marketplace

LL Hawkins

Northpointe

Karuna House

Work for Art

Partnering for Change

Asian Health & Service Center Grand Opening

Reconsidering Restaurants

David Machado Restaurants

BridgePort Brew Pub

Waypoint Hotel

Courtyard Marriott South lake Union Renovation

AIA Portland | Center for Architecture

Future Vision: Voices in the Workplace

Design Week Portland 2018

Nike Dan Fouts Building

Maletis Beverage

Walsh Construction

Rockwood Youth Campus is Complete

Sustainability Action Plan

Portland Winter Light Festival | The Cloud

Ride Connection Headquarters

Fat-Friendly Design

Boys & Girls Club Grand Opening

Women’s Shelter Mural

Salt Lake City Houseless Resource Centers

The Landing

Sawyer’s Row

Holst’s New Certification

Holst’s 25th Anniversary

Revere

Portland Architecture Awards 2016

937 Condominiums

The Avens

Renée Strand Honored as a Woman of Vision

Clinton Condominiums

Belmont Street Lofts

Our Commitment to 1+

Daily Journal of Commerce’s 2016 TopProjects

The Byline

310 Oak Street Condos

12.5 Townhomes

Thurman Street Lofts

Sunrose Condominiums

One North: A New Standard for Building

New Our Just Future Shelter Opens

Capitol Hill Passive House

Courtyard Marriott

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