AIA Minnesota Announces 2003 Honor Awards
The 69th AIA Minnesota Annual Convention and Exhibition was held Tuesday, November 19 through Friday,
November 21, 2003. Each year, months before the convention, a Call for Entries is sent out to the AIA
Minnesota architectural community. Firms then gather their best work and decide which projects they
will submit to be considered for either Honor or Divine Detail Awards.
During the convention, AIA Minnesota invited three nationally recognized architects from out-of-state
firms to serve as jurors and review the 119 Honor Award and 16 Divine Detail submissions from Minnesota
architectural firms. They spent an afternoon and morning reviewing projects. The Honor Awards were
reviewed in the five categories of Architecture, Housing, Interiors, Restoration & Renovation, and
Urban Design and Master Planning.
The jurors were Julie Eizenberg, Principal, Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Santa Monica, California;
Ted Flato, FAIA, Partner, Lake/Flato Architects, San Antonio, Texas; Scott Simpson, AIA, President and
CEO, The Stubbins Associates, Cambridge, Massachusetts. They selected thirteen Honor Awards and one
Divine Detail Award.
The Honor Awards program serves as a tribute to architectural excellence. Its purpose is to encourage
a high level of architecture and to recognize the clients and architects who have distinguished
themselves and to inform the public of these fine architectural contributions. The following thirteen
projects won a 2003 Honor Award:
Project: Mill City Museum
Firm: Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle, Ltd.
Client: Minnesota Historical Society
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Project: Emerson Sauna
Firm: Salmela Architect
Client: Peter & Cynthia Emerson
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Project: Target Plaza South
Firm: Ellerbe Becket, Inc.
Client: Ryan Companies US, Inc.
and Target Corporation
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Project: General Mills, World Headquarters
Firm: Hammel Green and Abrahamson, Inc.
Client: General Mills, Inc.
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Project: Art of Chiropractic
Firm: LEAD, Inc.
Client: Dr. Kari Boudreau and Dr. Lori Pottebaum
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Project: Ramsey Town Center
Firm: Elness Swenson Graham Architects, Inc.
in collaboration with Close Landscape Architects Inc.
Client: Ramsey Town Center L.L.C.
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Project: Performing Arts Center
Firm: Hammel Green and Abrahamson, Inc.
Client: Illinois State University
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Project: Mills District Lofts
Firm: Paul Madson + Associates, Ltd./LHB, Inc.
Client: Brighton Development Corporation
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Project: 301 Kenwood
Firm: Elness Swenson Graham Architects, Inc.
in collaboration with The Lander Group, Inc.
Client: The Lander Group, Inc.
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Project: Pantages Theatre
Firm: Hammel Green and Abrahamson, Inc.
Client: City of Minneapolis
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Project: Dakota County Inver Glen Library
Firm: The Leonard Parker Associates, Inc.
Client: Dakota County
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Project: 701 Washington Avenue Building
Firm: Hammel Green and Abrahamson, Inc.
Client: 701 Investments, LLC and Hammel Green and Abrahamson, Inc.
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Project: Koehler Residence
Firm: Julie Snow Architects, Inc.
Client: David and Mary Beth Koehler
The Divine Detail Award was established to recognize elements of building design where the expression
of materials, technologies and craft bond with the process of invention and construction. Projects in
this category illustrate the governing design concept of the building, recognizing the importance of
the detail to the realization of the whole. The following project won a 2003 Divine Detail Award:
Project: Architecture & the Psyche Installation/ Pavilion
Architect: Locus Architecture, Ltd.
The awards were officially presented to the recipients at the Friday, December 5, 2003 Awards Celebration
at the University Club, Downtown Clubhouse. Three hundred seventy people were in attendance. Other AIA
Minnesota awards given included: Young Architect Award, Special Award, Louis Lundgren Award, 25-Year
Award and the Firm Award, given to The Weidt Group, Inc.
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