Nike unveiled the design for expansion of its World Headquarter complex, an ambitious building program that will add approximately 3.2 million square feet of office, mixed-use and parking spaces to the site in Beaverton, Ore.
This “latest chapter in campus development” is scheduled for completion in 2018. A trio of firms is collaborating on the expansion—ZGF Architects, SRG Partnership and Skylab Architecture will lead design, while PLACE will provide landscape architecture services. All are located in the Pacific Northwest.
Nike World Headquarters opened in 1990 at One Bowerman Drive on land purchased in 1984. Two years later, the completion of the Nolan Ryan Building marked the company’s first site extension, while a third wave of construction, completed in 2001, doubled the footprint. Incremental development of both buildings and land has remained constant over much of the last decade, Nike said.
The new structures “reinforce the original campus master plan” and will link to pre-existing areas through open green spaces, paths, sports courts, and fields, and are positioned for “fluid future growth,” the company said in a statement announcing the plans.
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“The architecture itself takes inspiration from human movement, speed and the strength and energy of competition, all central to Nike’s core mission. A beacon serves as a campus center while spanning structures radiating from the tower pay homage to Nike’s namesake, the winged goddess of victory.”
Nike said the buildings’ “organic extensions into the landscape and connected interiors represent the collective power of teamwork and creativity.” Sustainable-design features include natural daylighting, passive chilled beams—a radiant convection system designed to heat or cool large buildings—and a closed-looped gray-water treatment center.
Nike said the expansion’s design motifs are intended to “fuel the collaborative spirit inherent and essential to sport, innovation and, thus, the company’s growth, while simultaneously respecting its surroundings. The company said these themes are apparent in other recent builds, including Converse’s offices in Boston, Nike’s Greater China Headquarters in Shanghai, and the company’s workspace in Milan. The designs promote “movement” and encourage “fluid teamwork through inventive, flexible spaces.”
