Architecture MinnesotaThe Magazine of AIA Minnesota
Design Excellence
March|April 2010
Vol. 36 No. 2
Features
20 AIA Minnesota Honor Awards
Introduction by Lyndel King
Our annual coverage of Minnesota’s top architecture awards takes you to an historic navy yard in Philadelphia, a mountain-view college campus in southwest Wyoming, and a hilly forest preserve in Seoul, Korea. You’ll enjoy the Minnesota stops, too.
Urban Outfitters Corporate Campus
page 22
By Linda Mack
South View Middle School
page 24
By Camille LeFevre
Biomass Research & Demonstration Facility
page 28
By Phillip Glenn Koski, AIA
Christ Church Lutheran - Exhibition Design
page 30
By Thomas Fisher, Assoc. AIA
Great River Energy Headquarters
page 32
By Linda Mack
Wind River Hall
page 34
By Phillip Glenn Koski, AIA
Samsung Cancer Center
page 36
By Amy Goetzman
Syngenta Seeds
page 38
By Amy Goetzman
Weekend House
page 41
By Thomas Fisher, Assoc. AIA
42 WATERMARK PARKS
By Adam Regn Arvidson
Landscape architects, planners, and engineers have helped Grand Forks, North Dakota, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, turn flood-protection measures and floodplain into a civic treasure. “The Red River Greenway,” writes Adam Regn Arvidson, “boasts more than 17 miles of trails and 2,200 acres of parkland that wind along the Red and Red Lake rivers. Its high floodwalls have removable sections that link the cities to the river. There are natural areas, stormwater-management ponds, and even a golf course, all within the floodway. And it works. Last spring, as the Red River rose, Grand Forks simply closed up its floodgates and waited for the water to recede.”
Departments & Directories
11 Post It
A Threshold blogger descends a multilevel, architect-designed back deck above Minnehaha Creek in Minneapolis.
13 Culture Crawl by Camille LeFevre
The best medicine for a Minnesota winter is a trip to the lush and humid Como Park Visitor Center and Conservatory in St. Paul.
15 Material Matters by Adam Regn Arvidson
Tree huggers rejoice! A new landscape product installed in downtown Minneapolis allows street trees to flourish.
17 Conundra by Camille LeFevre
Many newspapers and magazines have scaled back or eliminated their architecture coverage. Can architectural criticism survive?
19 Wayfarer by Wynne Yelland, AIA
A local architect renews an old family tradition: touring the California missions. The only thing missing is his parents’ dust-covered Pinto wagon.
64 Place by Paul Crosby
The long-awaited Target Field is finally pulling into the station.
55 Directory of Landscape Architecture Firms
61 Credits
63 Advertising Index
On the Cover
Urban Outfitters Corporate Campus
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“It was a thrill to photograph Urban Outfitters’new Philadelphia Naval Shipyard home,” says architectural photographer Lara Swimmer. “The opportunities to collaborate with MS&R and to document the life of fashion-in-the-making inside these gorgeously retrofitted buildings were highlights, given my background as apprentice at Elle Studios in Paris and my career documenting civic-building reconstruction.”
Mission Statement
Architecture Minnesota, the primary public outreach tool of the American Institute of Architects Minnesota, is published to inform the public about architecture designed by AIA Minnesota members and to communicate the spirit and value of quality architecture to both the public and the membership.