Lake View Taphouse

Renovation responds to restaurant’s vision

Lake View Taphouse overlooks Lake Oswego’s Millenium Plaza Park and Lakewood Bay in the city’s active hospitality district. Scott Edwards Architecture partnered with the space’s new tenant to design a bright and modern renovation representative of the restaurant’s lively brand. Our approach included opening up sight lines, stripping away layers of ornamentation, and incorporating or revealing natural materials and imagery characteristic of the Pacific Northwest locale. This project’s next chapter is particularly meaningful to our firm as we performed the original tenant improvement for the previous occupant over 20 years ago—we enjoyed the opportunity to revisit and refresh the space from a different perspective.

Location
Lake Oswego, OR

Size
6,650 sf

Year
2024

Brightening the existing space’s palette and loosening its formality guided SEA’s design direction, as did retaining and updating high-quality materials already in place. Our design team identified opportunities to raise soffits and replaced a solid interior wall with a transparent glass wall, allowing more natural light into the interior.

In many areas, the ceiling was removed to reveal solid wood trusses. We bead-blasted the trusses and left them exposed, opening up the space and making an existing element a new feature. We also painted darker-finished wall paneling to be lighter, reclad the bar, and sandblasted existing wood dining chairs, opting to repurpose what we could while still responding to the new design directive.