July-August 2004
Vol. 30, No. 4
Departments
Editor’s Note Something To Talk About
Overview Gruen Effect, AIA Minnesota’s residential ventures with other print media
Book Review The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture & Consciousness by Virginia Postrel Reviewed by Nancy A. Miller
Newsmakers Baker Associates’s auto dealership, MSR and HGA join forces in the adaptive reuse of a jail, BTR’s lively urban infill, Cuningham Group’s divine mixed-used By Bette Hammel
Endangered The Ford Building in St. Paul, once an auto assembly plant, offers an opportunity for sustainable-design architects and historic preservationists to combine their talents By Robert Roscoe
Interview Michael Graves, FAIA, discusses his role in the design democracy and a cross-disciplinary practice that combines architecture and product design By Camille LeFevre
Citizen Architect Of Victor Gruen’s comprehensive Edina master plan, only Southdale was built, but architects continue combining retail with mixed-used in an effort to create community By Phillip Glenn Koski, AIA
Talking Point Finding the value of things and our connection to nature by attending to the peripheral during a visit to the mall By James Boyd-Brent
Project Credits
Advertising Index
Fast Forward Terminal 4 Renovation, Sky Harbor International Airport, Architectural Alliance, Minneapolis
Projects
Gravel Mine to Gold Mine KKE carves The Shoppes at Arbor Lakes out of a desolate area to creates Minnesota’s first lifestyle center By Linda Shapiro
Kitchen Wizards Jeff Agnes, AIA, gives Cooks of Crocus Hill its first mall location by blending traditional values with contemporary branding By Dorothy Rand
Rasta Retail 3 studios merges beach lifestyle and urban jungle in a Nicollet Mall store selling Bob Marley products By Barbara Knox
Imagination Destination Cuningham Group reinforces LEGO’s “Play Well” philosophy in two new stores for the Danish company By Barbara Knox
Start Your Engines Paulsen Architects transforms an abandoned Menards store into an indoor auto showroom By Barbara Knox
Features
Shop Talk Big boxes and branding, prototypes and property sites are all apart of the discussion when the topic is retail trends in architecture By Barbara Knox
Arboreal Architecture Architect-design tree houses at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Photography by Don F. Wong
Cover
The Shoppes at Arbor Lakes
Architect: KKE Architects
Photographer: Joel Koyama