built with ingenuity

A 20-course meal run by a Michelin star chef, ōkta needed high finishes to match their premier restaurant experience. We created a custom ice box for the entrance to display the day’s menu, along with blackened stainless steel throughout the open kitchen – including shelves and a box for the wood fired oven. Other work included brass footrails and bar hooks, as well as a custom sign.

The City of Fairview was brainstorming ideas for an art piece at the main entrance of their food carts. Jokingly, the architect said “stick a fork in it” to revisit later… and the idea stuck. And not just any fork, but the world’s tallest: Solid Form designed, fabricated, and installed the new world record holder – delivering it in one piece, set onto a large concrete footing. Total, the fork is 40’ tall, with 3’ buried below ground and 37’ above ground. Made from 3/16” thick stainless-steel plate, the fork is engineered to withstand ice and high winds that are common from the Columbia Gorge.

This winery presented unique challenges for our team – with the design featuring an underground wine library with custom steel shelving, aluminum scalloped and straight-run catwalks, Cor-ten gates, structural steel components, railing and two pneumatic punch-down tools along with other miscellaneous winery equipment.

For Lingua Franca’s custom aluminum catwalks, we used a scalloped design to utilize all of the space between and around the stainless steel and concrete fermenters. This design eliminates the need for most of the guardrails and gives the winemaker optimal access to the fermentation process. Once the winery was complete, we designed and built the wineries main entry gate and sign.

This expansive aluminum catwalk project was combination of fermentation tank access and connecting pathways. The multipurpose design had to meet code requirements for winery employees and the general public. Other projects for A to Z include sanitary process piping, pneumatic punch down tools, fittings carts and press modifications.