Hennebery Eddy is honored to be among the recipients of the 2026 DJC Top Projects Awards. Our four award-winning projects include the Portland Art Museum Rothko Pavilion & Campus Renovation, City of Bend Public Works Campus, Astoria Public Library Renovation, and Fort Stevens Guardhouse Rehabilitation.
DJC Top Projects is the premier recognition program for the region’s built environment, honoring outstanding building and construction projects across the Pacific Northwest. Each recognized project reflects Hennebery Eddy’s commitment to design excellence and adaptive reuse. A full list of 2026 Top Projects honorees can be found here.
Portland Art Museum Rothko Pavilion & Campus Renovation
The Portland Art Museum campus renovation and expansion, delivered together with Mortenson Construction, transforms the Museum, increasing access to PAM’s collection and exhibitions, creating a more streamlined and holistic visitor experience, updating amenities to meet audience needs. The project encompasses the addition of 100,000 square feet of new or upgraded public and gallery space, and the addition of the new 24,000-square-foot Mark Rothko Pavilion, which connects PAM’s two historic buildings and establishes a dramatic new main entry to the Museum. Hennebery Eddy collaborated with Chicago-based Vinci Hamp Architects to evolve the original 2015 concept, advancing the museum’s goals of expanded art and program space, improved accessibility, and a stronger connection to the city’s urban landscape. The pavilion concept incorporates an existing Madison Street passageway between 10th and Park Avenues into a sheltered, public passageway with views into the commons and museum gallery — providing a welcoming and beautiful space to experience art for everyone who passes.
City of Bend Public Works Campus
The City of Bend Public Works Campus is a $130 million, 35.5-acre campus with multiple high-performance facilities supporting essential operations and long-term community needs. Kirby Nagelhout Construction Company and Hennebery Eddy Architects partnered together as the Progressive Design-Build (PDB) team on the City of Bend Public Works Campus, one of Oregon’s largest PDB projects, and one of the first in Central Oregon. Aligned with Bend’s Strategic Energy Management and Climate Action Plans, the highly resilient campus meets the Energy Trust of Oregon’s Path to Net Zero standards and is designed to be fully electric, net-zero energy, and LEED Gold certified. Thoughtful site analysis and planning limited intensive site grading and preserves healthy juniper trees and other sensitive site features, maintaining open space to reduce heat stress. These strategies mitigate against climate change and future-proof the campus.
Astoria Public Library Renovation
The Astoria Public Library Renovation revitalized the historically significant library building, originally built in 1967, into a modern and fully accessible community center while preserving its distinctive mid-century Brutalist architectural character. The project included a comprehensive renovation, effectively doubling the usable interior space to a total of approximately 18,000 square feet, to meet 21st-century library requirements, including additional meeting spaces, a media room, expanded programming spaces, a larger children’s area, and improved accessibility. It was delivered under a CM/GC model with O’Brien & Company for the City of Astoria. The work involved extensive building system upgrades, structural modifications, and the transformation of a previously underutilized basement level. The basement, which historically served primarily as storage and mechanical space, was converted into functional library public space including meeting rooms, a gallery, and program areas.
Fort Stevens Guardhouse Rehabilitation
The Fort Stevens Guardhouse preserves and revitalizes an important historic landmark within Fort Stevens State Park on the Oregon coast. Originally constructed in 1911, the Fort Stevens Guardhouse is one of the nation’s most intact historic military structures, managed by Oregon Parks & Recreation. Preserving this level of historic integrity while addressing critical structural and environmental deterioration required an exceptionally careful, collaborative, and preservation-focused approach, which we accomplished with Bremik Construction. Phase 1 of the rehabilitation focused on stabilizing and preserving its historic structure while extending the life of the building for future generations.
Congratulations to all this year’s winners — we are proud to be in outstanding company.