At six stories high, Lincoln High School is the first mid-rise high school in the state of Oregon. Situated on a constrained urban site in downtown Portland, this mid-rise design is the perfect build.

The high school is envisioned as a modern learning environment bringing together a varied program into a cohesive and compact singular form. The new build presents a creative model of restraint and economy of space while also maximizing design.

Prominent exterior glass-wrapped stairs emphasize the school’s vertical nature. This projects a sense of movement and energy outward from the school. Flexible learning spaces on every floor cultivate social hubs and intersections for collaboration. Floor-to-ceiling windows and east/west views strengthen students’ connections to the active urban edge and also to the mountains and hills beyond. The building design features a shared commons space and new media center that doubles the size of the original school, providing generous gathering venues for the greater community. Throughout the facility, experiential graphic design creates a visual language celebrating the power of community and place paired with global thinking.

With the groundbreaking for the new build, Lincoln High School released a land acknowledgment statement recognizing the indigenous land on which the new school is built. It also acknowledges the specific Indigenous Tribes that once lived on the land.