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90% of the building’s power comes from the solar panels on the roof. The building also uses a geothermal heat pump (GHP). GHPs use the ground as a heat reservoir for high efficiency heating and cooling. The temperature of the earth is the exchange medium instead of the outside temperature.

It’s easy being green

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We like green. We’re Irish. But, now we’re a whole new shade of green – building green.

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90% of the building’s power comes from the solar panels on the roof. The building also uses a geothermal heat pump (GHP). GHPs use the ground as a heat reservoir for high efficiency heating and cooling. The temperature of the earth is the exchange medium instead of the outside temperature.

Passionate about sustainability, our landlords built the Cyrk to be the greenest of green buildings – LEED Platinum.

 

Ipe wood siding

The Ipe wood siding and sunscreens aren’t just reclaimed, they have history. They originally existed as decking in a Northern Californian steam driven sawmill. Before there was a movement to protect the old growth forests and establishing Redwoods State & National Parks, gold miners and lumberjacks walked across the boards in the largest and oldest redwood log mill in the world. This same wood will be used inside AM:PM PR and 7/Apps offices as barn doors to our conference room.

 

 

Green patio

The patio features native plants and reclaims storm-water runoff.

 

 

All of the materials and paint used are non-toxic

All of the materials and paint used are non-toxic and 21% of the construction materials came from recycled sources. During the construction phase 95% of the waste was diverted from landfills.

 

Erin is our own in-house Green Police and we will be trained to respect this building by being good stewards ourselves. Our next project – making our own paper out of our shreds. Not really. That’s too hard. I think we’ll just communicate electronically. Look for your invite to our office warming party on March 15th in your email soon and come check this all out for yourself.

Come one, come all! AM:PM PR arrives at The Cyrk

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This week we finally get to move into our new office at 2006 SE Clinton St. in Portland. We have been stalking this place (not so conspicuously) for the last month, hanging out at the Press Club, St. Jack’s, New Seasons and the Clinton Street Coffeehouse – neighborhood haunts with great treats and free wi-fi. We’re planning to stick around this one for a while.

A year ago when we set out on our search for new office space, we were looking for a special place that would continue the kind of iconic presence we enjoyed in historic Firehouse 7. We wanted to be in a neighborhood on the Eastside where we’d found such great welcome and a strong presence of other creative influences.

We identified this building early in our process, but it didn’t seem realistic that we could use that large of space at the time. Our business grew in 2012 and a remarkable coincidence presented itself. One of our new clients happened to be the owners of the building we coveted.

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We were captured by the building’s looks. We were even more impressed when we learned it is LEED Platinum rated by the Green Building Council. Ninety percent of the building is powered by the rooftop solar array (more on that this week).

cyrk-poster-lionWhat we didn’t foresee was how much we’d fall in love with our neighbors (clients and landlords) and how their name for the building would shape our branding.

The building was named after the Polish word for circus (Cyrk). Bonnie Serkin’s Father was nicknamed “Serk.” She came upon the infamous Cyrk posters in college and had to have them. When Bonnie and Will Emery built this building, Will let her name it. Not only was the name familial, she felt it represented her life as a three-ring circus.

At the firehouse we were naturally inclined to take job titles that referenced that theme or, were just fun. Moving to the Cyrk we needed new titles and decided to acknowledge the creative inspiration Bonnie had in naming it. Let’s just say circus-related job titles were remarkably easy to come up with.

We’re going to have fun with this.