EVENTS Archives - Mayer Reed

City of Possibility

Join us in exploring the past, present and future of Portland. City of Possibility explores the ongoing legacy of Portland’s built environment as seen through architectural models. The model exhibition and related events are happening citywide January 31–March 27, 2025.

We are a proud sponsor and participant of City of Possibility. Look for a Mayer/Reed project on display at the model exhibition at the J.K. Gill Building. Principal Emeritus Carol Mayer-Reed, FASLA, is presenting at Portland’s Next Horizon on February 2, and Associate Principal Shannon Simms, ASLA, is speaking at Streets of Possibility on February 24.

Check out the many opportunities to get involved.

Chasing Rainbows

The Portland Winter Light Festival (PDXWLF) returns for its 10th anniversary, lighting up the cold winter nights February 7 – 15, 2025. This year, Mayer/Reed is shedding a light on the World’s Smallest Park with our installation, Chasing Rainbows.

Chasing Rainbows is a celebration of the history of Mill Ends Park and an exploration of its future. In 1946, journalist Dick Fagan gazed out his office window and envisioned a leprechaun colony inhabiting a hole meant for a utility pole – sparking a newspaper column, a Guinness World Record and decades of lore.

We see a future where the end of the rainbow is found, right here at Mill Ends Park. Housed within a technicolor beacon glowing softly in the night, a kaleidoscopic portal reveals an infinite treasure hidden in plain sight. Peer inside for a glimmer of what lies within. Can you see the unseeable?

You’ll find Chasing Rainbows illuminated nightly during PDXWLF 2025 from 6pm-10pm.

Open House Afterglow

Oh, what a night! Thank you to our colleagues and friends who joined us in celebrating our new downtown studio in the Power + Light Building. We are still buzzing from the energy of the open house. Filling our studio with conversation, laughter and music was the perfect start to 2025. To those that couldn’t attend: we hope to see you in our new space soon.

Shannon Simms Presents “Community-Led Urban Design” at Mpact Transit + Community Conference in Philadelphia

Mayer/Reed Associate Principal and landscape architect, Shannon Simms, ASLA, will present at the Mpact Transit & Community Conference on Tuesday October 22, 2024. The session, Community-Led Urban Design: Implementing in Sync with Transit Projects, features a panel of leaders from around the US and Canada who will demonstrate how creative approaches in urban design and landscape architecture can bring community identity into transit projects. Join Shannon and co-presenters—Krista Nightengale, Better Block Foundation; Klaudia Biala, SvN Architects + Planners; John Potter, Metrolinx; and Jeffrey A Fahs, HDR, Inc.—as they share techniques for engagement, design and placemaking that “shift perceptions about transit, limit adverse impacts and heal communities.”

Formerly known as Rail~Volution, the annual Mpact Conference focuses on building great places to live through transit, connected mobility, and land use and development.

We hope to see you in Philadelphia!