This project was renovated in 2013 and replaced by Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building (Renovation)
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Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building
EGWW Federal Building
Building
Completed
1974
Office
All-Steel
95 m / 312 ft
18
2
184
7
48,774 m² / 524,999 ft²
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26 October 2015 | Portland
Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building (EGWW) is an 18-story federal office designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and constructed in downtown Portland, Oregon, in 1975....
The Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt (EGWW) Federal Building was an existing 18-story, 512,474 square-foot (47,610 square-meter) office tower, completed in 1974. The building no longer met the functional or the energy and conservation requirements of the contemporary US government, so a major renovation project was undertaken. A mechanical upgrade was paired with a full replacement of the building envelope with a distinctive shading facade, affording better energy performance and a new lease on life.
This project achieves operational sustainability that would be admirable in a brand-new building, let alone a retrofit of a 1970s "energy hog." The building has been transformed from a bunker-like, concrete-encased mass into a trellised volume that seems more lightweight by an order of magnitude, yet affords more floor space than the previous version. See Project Case Study
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