Architecture Minnesota
The Magazine of AIA Minnesota
September–October 2005
Vol. 31 No. 5
Interiors Projects
26 A Welcome Change Hammel, Green and Abrahamson puts the finishing touch on its expansion and renovation of General Mills headquarters with a crisply redesigned visitor’s lobby By Camille LeFevre
30 Divine Intervention Rafferty Rafferty Tollefson Architects oversees the restoration, renovation, and reconfiguration of San Antonio’s historic San Fernando Cathedral By Mason Riddle
34 Amazing Grace The Museum of Russian Art finds a new home in a Spanish Colonial Revival church. In the hands of Julie Snow Architects, it’s a match made in heaven. By Mason Riddle
37 Prison Reform BWBR Architects’ secure and energy-efficient new housing unit at Lino Lakes Correctional Facility establishes a normative environment for inmates nearing release By Nancy A. Miller
Features
40 Midtown Makeover A three-block redevelopment in south Minneapolis, anchored by the adaptive reuse of the Lake Street Sears building, is one of the most ambitious urban revitalization projects in Minnesota history. Will it work? By Camille LeFevre
46 Big Blue The Eero Saarinen–designed IBM Manufacturing Facility in Rochester remains “a notable and all-too-rare example of a company’s commitment to an original, modern design aesthetic” By Nancy A. Miller
Departments
5 Editor’s Note A Sense of History
7 Overview AIA Minnesota 2005 Annual Convention & Exposition; 2005 Young Architects Awards; 2005 Rave Awards
13 Newsmakers Local artist Nancy Ann Coyne and architectural firm Conway + Schulte honor Jewish survivors of the Holocaust in Vienna with a unique installation at the University of Minnesota’s Andersen Library By Thomas Fisher, Assoc. AIA
15 Interview Local pediatrician and sustainable-design advocate Christine Ziebold talks about the built environment and its effect on human health and well-being By Mary Guzowski
19 Endangered With a major impediment to reuse now removed, it’s time to repair and find new lives for deteriorating Officers’ Row buildings on Fort Snelling’s Upper Bluff By Robert Roscoe
21 Practice The Adopt a Room foundation, with help from a local architecture firm, aims to make children’s hospital rooms a little more like home By Barbara Knox
23 Technology Raised access floors offer architects and building occupants a variety of benefits, including design flexibility, energy efficiency, and improved indoor air quality By William Weber
25 Talking Point Architecture that is molded by the sun’s path, that breathes in fresh air and gathers water and energy from its surroundings, achieves a new kind of beauty By Greg Maxam, AIA
64 Directory of Interior Architecture Firms
70 Directory of Interior Design Firms
74 Project Credits
75 Advertising Index
76 Fast Forward University of Cincinnati Gatehouse; VJAA, Minneapolis, architect; Van Sickle, Allen & Associates, Plymouth, structural engineer; Hargreaves Associates, Cambridge, Massachusetts, landscape architect
Cover
The Museum of Russian Art
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Architect: Julie Snow Architects
Photographer: Don F. Wong
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.
Architecture Minnesota Committee
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