Oregon Home | 37 CUSTOM FIT: SORA design SORA design creates a gallery of vistas in a custom Northwest home. BY JON BELL NATURE, FRAMED ONE VIEW IS a perfectly framed green forest out over a grassy slope. Another captures a serene Japanese garden with feathery bamboo and gray, rugged boulders. And yet another showcases one of the signature features that all but defines the Pacific Northwest: 12,276-foot Mt. Adams, in all of its soaring, snowy glory. These are the views out the windows of a stunning home designed by Portland’s SORA design — vistas so masterfully seized in the glass that they appear as landscape paintings on the wall of a gallery. “The idea of the house began with the clients’ primary objective — to take advantage of the breathtaking view to the northeast,” says Akiko Arai, who founded SORA with her husband, Katsuya. “While the active views toward the mountains are dramatic, the long passive views through the house are soothing to the eye.”
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