Baller green
The world’s most valuable apparel brand 7th year running, Nike now flex their architectural muscle. As the business focuses on durability and circularity – this is green innovation to scale.
📍Location
🏢Building Details
1 million sq. ft. – equivalent of 140 tennis courts = largest Nike HQ office
Workplace uniting 1,000+ Nike designers for first time in nearly 3 decades
Comprised of main 10-storey tower + 3 wings – connected by series of sky bridges
Continues tradition of Nike namesake buildings (inc. Sebastian Coe, LeBron James)
👷🏾♀️Contractor
✍️Architects & Engineers
Jeffrey Kovel – Principal at Skylab Architecture
Susan Barnes – Senior Associate at Skylab Architecture
John Hoke III – Chief Design Officer at Nike; former Architect at Michael Graves Architecture & Design
Joshua Tripp – Principal Landscape Architect at PLACE Landscape Architecture
Jenny Sabin – Principal at Jenny Sabin Studio
🌱Sustainability
20% of materials used are recycled – including flooring made from recycled Nike shoe outsoles
Each wing is progressively taller (3 to 6 storeys) facilitating the flow + collection of rainwater: uses 69% less water than baseline buildings
648 roof solar panels = 41% energy cost saving
Salmon-safe verified: environmental protections on water quality, surrounding habitats + beaver-inhabited wetlands
🥦 Wellbeing
Tennis court + running trail meandering through surrounding wetlands – encouraging employees to stay active in nature
“Immersion rooms”: 180-degree wraparound visual projection + theatre-quality sound for creatives to vividly conceptualise new products
Forest floor rooftop garden – complete with nurse logs to support biodiversity and fungi culture, inspired by Oregon rain forest
Gardens filled with plants grown for dyes: encouraging bio-inspired designers to contemplate “soil to garment” journey
🎈Bonus feature
Serena Williams revealed in an Instagram post that she visited the Nike campus as a child: "After that visit, I knew I wanted two things: to be a Nike athlete and to have a building". In the titan athlete’s own words: “I have a BUILDING Y’ALL!!! This is CRAZY!!!” – kudos to setting goals.
🔗 Check it out https://skylabarchitecture.com/work/nikewhq/
