The Wayne Lyman Morse United States Courthouse stands at 405 East 8th Avenue in Eugene, Oregon, overlooking the Willamette River. Morphosis, led by Thom Mayne, was the design architect, and DLR Group was the architect of record. A competition was held in 1999, groundbreaking was on April 7, 2004, and it was dedicated on December 1, 2006. The article calls the style Deconstructivist Modern.
The six-floor building has 266,742 square feet on a 4.5-acre site, and an atrium 85 feet tall. Materials include concrete, steel, glass, stainless steel and cherry wood. Total project cost was $96 million. It has six courtrooms and houses federal courts, the U.S. Attorney and the U.S. Marshals.
It was the first new federal courthouse to earn LEED Gold. It won an AIA/COTE Top Ten Award in 2007. The site was formerly an Agripac cannery.
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