Portland International Airport Main Terminal
7000 NE Airport Way, Portland, OR 97218
PDX's nine-acre timber canopy retained the forest-inspired concept shown in ZGF's renderings. The August 14, 2024 opening covered phase one, not the entire expansion; the second and final phase opened later.
What got built
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What changed
- ZGF's design uses 3.5 million board feet of wood, including mass-plywood panels, glulam beams, and timbers arranged in a basketweave lattice and sourced from Pacific Northwest forests.
- The nine-acre roof is supported by 34 Y-shaped columns and includes 49 skylights.
- Phase one opened to travelers on August 14, 2024. A second and final phase opened later, completing the approximately $2.15 billion main-terminal expansion.
- The project's roughly 50 percent energy-use reduction is a modeled design comparison to the prior terminal unless and until post-occupancy performance data is cited.
- The completed roof retained the forest-canopy design concept shown before construction; no systematic source reviewed supports describing it as an exact rendering match.
Why there is nothing to explain
The completed terminal retained the mass-timber roof and forest-canopy concept shown in ZGF's renderings. The record is best described as continuity of the overall design concept, not an exact visual match claim.
Details
- Status
- Built, and it follows the rendering.
- Where
- Portland, OR
- Neighborhood
- Portland International Airport
- Developer
- Port of Portland
- Architect
- ZGF Architects
- Rendering credit
- ZGF Architects
- The built result
- Photographed by SounderBruce, 2024-08-28
Sources
- ArchDaily: 2021 rendering coverage archdaily.com
- Dezeen: ZGF Architects places mass-timber roof on Portland airport terminal dezeen.com
- ZGF: Portland International Airport Main Terminal Opens to Travelers zgf.com
- ZGF: PDX Airport Main Terminal Expansion zgf.com
- Woodworking Network: final phase of mass-timber airport expansion completed woodworkingnetwork.com
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