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Architecture at World Forestry Center |
In themselves, the buildings at the World Forestry Center attractively showcase the breadth and variety of the forest resource. The Main Exhibit Hall alone contains enough wood to build 75 average-size houses.
Material was gathered worldwide and assembled by the Henry Mason Company of Portland. Species used in the building include western red cedar, redwood, birch, Douglas fir, white pine, ponderosa pine, sugar pine, black walnut, Damar Min Yak (a tropical conifer), hemlock, pecan, and teak.
Visitors enter through a three-story glass-enclosed entrance that is built in Cascadian style with heavy beams and timbers. They continue into a spacious rotunda that is dominated by 8 Douglas fir pillars stretching nearly 70 feet to the dome.
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