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Our collaborative, socially-oriented designs form places that anchor, that bring people together, that transform many missions into one. Through regional collaboration, each project becomes a spark for positive economic and social change. Whether creating an urban plaza or community arts center, we design public cornerstones that welcome, enhance, and beautify beyond what’s expected. From the tiniest, most specific detail to our widest hopes for the future, we design equitable ideas that work.

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Young Life’s Washington Family Ranch, nestled in a high desert valley in Central Oregon, seeks to give youth campers the best week of their lives. Combining exposed heavy timber with concealed modern building systems, the ranch's two camps, Creekside and Canyon, express a traditional aesthetic with surprising modern advantages. Designing a 100,000 sq. ft. ensemble of multi-use buildings in Oregon’s remote high desert means designing for sustainability. Campers start their days in the cabins before moving to the grand dining hall. At the activity center, kids play basketball, volleyball and soccer, challenge friends to miniature golf, or pull on a harness for the adventure ropes course. In the afternoon, they hit the towering water park, where five slides drop them into outdoor pools from the head of an active mine shaft. Since we first began work here over a decade ago, the two camps—Creekside for teens and Canyon for middle schoolers—have hosted up to 800 campers per week, every summer. And the sunsets still take our breath away.

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