We are excited to announce that the Wynne Watts Common has won a Portland Business Journal Landmark Award. With accessibility and sustainability at its core design values, Wynne Watts Common perfectly deserves this award, which honors the importance of the project and what it brings to the community.

@langohansen  We are excited to announce that the De La Salle North Catholic High School Renovation/Addition project was honored with a DeMuro Award. Lango Hansen partnered with Bora Architects to design the new campus for De La Salle North Catholic High School, a private college preparatory school for underserved students in Northeast Portland. The project is composed of a renovated K-8 school building attached to St. Charles Parish and a new addition that houses a gymnasium and learning commons, are centered around an enclosed courtyard space that serves as the heart of the campus.

We are pleased to welcome Minh Nguyen to Lango Hansen. A recent University of Oregon graduate, Minh joins us as a Summer Intern. In addition to growing up in Portland, Oregon, Minh has lived in Vietnam and Singapore. Her multi-national background has fostered unique experiences and perspectives that continues to shape her as a designer. Outside of the office, Minh enjoys spending time with friends, exploring new hobbies, expanding her cassette collection, watching movies and cat videos.

We are thrilled to be featured for our Slabtown work with Kurt Schultz of SERA Architects and Tom diChiarra with Cairn Pacific in the latest issue of the Portland Business Journal. Lango Hansen’s work within the district has spanned over a decade with the design of twelve contiguous blocks filled with courtyards, plazas, pedestrian ways, and roof gardens. Congratulations to all in creating a thoughtfully designed and truly vibrant district.

@langohansen  We are excited to share that Saltwood has been named Multifamily Community of the Year in the 2023 Gold Nugget Awards building design competition. This award speaks to the quality of the exterior space and the interface between architecture and landscape architecture.  Congratulations to SERA Architects and the Lango Hansen design team.

Welcome to The Cannery! Over 8 acres of Salem’s historic riverfront will be transformed into a new mixed-use entertainment district. The story of the site’s history is told actively through interpretive placemaking elements and passively through reused historic metal archways, fruit tree groves, and overhead stormwater channels. The project provides direct public access to the Willamette River, Mill Creek, and a city park at the confluence of the two.

@langohansen  Lango Hansen has been teaming with Sandy Parks and Recreation on the design of the new Community Campus Park. Site amenities include a skate park, a pump track, a fully-inclusive playground, a direct connection to the Sandy River Trail and much more!

We are pleased to welcome Matt Jackman to Lango Hansen. Matt grew up in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania and later received his Landscape Architecture degree from West Virginia University. He then practiced landscape architecture for 17 years in West Palm Beach, Florida working on a variety of projects including residential, commercial, retail, and mixed-use developments. He’s grown accustomed to our rainy winters over the last two years and brings both technical expertise and design talent to our firm.

@langohansen  We are pleased to announce that The Carson & Saltwood Apartments in Slabtown received an Oregon ASLA Honor Award! The collaborative effort of a talented team of developers and architects has truly made this a vibrant and unique place to live, work and play.

We are pleased to welcome Carly Boise to Lango Hansen. Carly brings a number of years of office experience and design-build expertise to our firm with an affinity for planting design and detailing. She has previously worked on wineries, estate gardens and community-oriented projects throughout Oregon. When she is not in the office, she loves to spend time with family and friends, attend concerts, ski the Pacific Northwest, and explore the many restaurants and breweries the greater Portland area has to offer.

Celebrating the grand opening of the Block 10 courtyard where a sculptural bench is the centerpiece in this residential garden and office plaza space

We invited Weina Dinata from Poppy & Finch to lead a moss ball workshop at our office.  Moss balls, or the art of Kokedama is a Japanese term that translates as “ball of moss.” We were all able to take our works of art home and also add to our moss ball collection here at the office.

Lango Hansen Landscape Architects currently has an open position for a Landscape Architect/Project Manager with 7 to 10 years of experience. If you are interested in joining our firm, please send a letter, resume, and work samples to: employment@langohansen.com

We look forward to hearing from you!

Associate Brooks Ostendorf is participating in the 2022 ACE Program, a volunteer mentor program for high school students with an interest in architecture, engineering, or construction. This year students are exploring projects that are part of the Green Loop concept in Portland. Stay tuned for more updates as the projects progress!

We are pleased to welcome Brett Hoornaert to Lango Hansen. As a Landscape Architect, Brett brings over 13 years of experience working in Toronto, Calgary and Amsterdam on a wide variety of urban design and planning projects. He is passionate about human-centered design of cities to create places that inspire delight, nurture the soul, and amplify the human spirit. His interests include exploring cities and landscapes with his dog Sadie, finding the perfect park bench for people watching, illustration, and, when the mood calls for it, salsa dancing.

@langohansen  The fern cone at Saltwood South is a slice of the Columbia Gorge and serves as the centerpiece of an urban NW Portland courtyard. Wisps of fog trail out of the steel cone periodically throughout the day.

We’re thrilled to announce that our Oregon State University Gladys Valley Marine Studies, led by YGH Architects, won Project of the Year from the DJC Oregon.

@langohansen  Our work on the Hallova Residence with @leverarchitecture will be featured in the PDX Landscape Architecture Design Tour 2021 this weekend! Buy tickets at: https://mads.media/2021-portland-landscape-architecture-design-tour/

@langohansen  Our fern cone is up and ready for plants, followed by fog emitters at Saltwood South in Slabtown. We’re very excited to see this become a reality.

@langohansen  LHLA is honored to have collaborated with Oregon City on the design of Tyrone S. Woods Memorial Park.

We’re excited to announce that our Carson Apartments project was honored with a Gold Nugget Award!

We’re excited to announce that our Flaneur Wines Tasting Room project was honored with a DeMuro Award!

@langohansen  Shared common space is at the core of a new full-block development in downtown Vancouver. Both office tenants and apartment residents will come together in a welcoming, park-like atmosphere.

@langohansen  Inspired by the County Fair, we’ve brought together all the cities that make up Washington County via these engraved granite pavers. The pavers will be located throughout the plaza of our Wingspan Event and Conference Center project with LRS Architects and Swinerton.

We’re excited to see Origami Townhomes featured in Azure Magazine’s 2020 housing issue.

@langohansen  Field Office received an Oregon ASLA Honor Award Friday evening, and we couldn’t be more proud to have been a part of this team with Hacker Architects and Project^.

@langohansen  We are excited to announce that The Slabtown Marketplace and LL Hawkins Apartments received an Honor Award at the annual Oregon ASLA soiree. Thanks to all of our collaborators including Holst Architecture, GBD Architects, Cairn Pacific and Capstone Partners!

Design Museum Portland held their annual gala at Field Office this October, good times!

Our Black Butte Residence was recently featured in Dwell Magazine

Recently featured in a Washington Post article, Flaneur Wines’ new tasting room and courtyard are now open at Carlton’s historic grain elevator

Lango Hansen Landscape Architects currently has an open position for a landscape designer/landscape architect with 2 to 5 years of experience.  Please send a letter, resume and work samples to employment@langohansen.com

@langohansen  Three generations of plowing on display at Chemeketa Community College’s groundbreaking for the new Agriculture and Horticulture Complex. We are excited to be a part of this project with the College, FFA design team and the many stakeholders throughout the valley.

@langohansen  A new pocket park at the corner of NW 15th Avenue and NW Glisan Street in Portland’s Pearl District is at the nexus of a number of transportation corridors and new development.

Momentum is building to construct the Steelbridge Skatepark, a collaboration with DAO Architecture and Grindline.

@langohansen  Flâneur Wines Tasting Room at Carlton’s Grain Elevator. We can’t wait!

As part of Shadow Mentor Day, a University of Oregon student experienced the working world of landscape architecture for a day.

Steel tension cables support a flowering vine, adding shade, color and visual interest to a Los Angeles courtyard. Image courtesy of GBD Architects.

Kurt Lango was a jury member for a remote wilderness lodge design competition that focused on innovative wood construction technologies.

@langohansen  A pioneering green wall and green roof will wrap a new 20-story hotel in downtown Portland.

@langohansen  The Blazers capped off our 2018 office holiday party with a win last night.

Kyle Trulen partnered up with his wife Alyssa to design a bench for the Street Seats Competition. They were awarded the grand prize and featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine and the Architect’s Newspaper!

@langohansen  Just opened in April, the Field Office Plaza is growing in.

We’re so honored to have been a part of these award winning projects this year: Flex, PSU Peter Stott Center Renovation and Carbon 12.

@langohansen  Annual gathering at the Lango Hansen backyard for grilled pizza and drinks!

@langohansen  Come PARK IT on Park(ing) Day with Lango Hansen’s latest temporary installation. Sit on an “A”, curl up on a “K” or add an “!” to your day.