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GLASS IS IN

...and wood, and stainless steel, at PSU's new biz school, as architects focus on performance.



In six weeks Portland State University will open its School of Business Administration after an ambitious remodel and addition.

Another cursory cube along Southwest Sixth has been retrofit with a silver skin, and now an angular glass atrium joins it to a wood-coated addition. The latter might look like a billionaire's home in wine country, but it is actually a series of staggered classrooms, stepped back to make Montgomery Street pedestrian-friendly.

It's a complicated structure where no two volumes are alike. In a site tour two architects showed the Business Tribune what's in store for students, faculty and yes, the general public, this September.

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