Inside Nike’s homage to Serena Williams: A 1-million-square-foot temple of design

The road to Nike’s gargantuan campus from downtown Portland has some familiar features. Heading west to bucolic Beaverton, you pass tents lining the streets to the freeway, but after about a half-hour, you turn up at a place like none other on Earth.

In the average year, Portland gets around 164 rain days. That day, on Nike’s sprawling suburban campus, the weather was no different: cold and wet. Read More