Architecture Minnesota
The Magazine of AIA Minnesota
Architecture Minnesota
The Magazine of AIA Minnesota
The Honor Awards
March/April 2009
Vol. 36 No. 2
Mar/Apr 2009 Press Release - coming soon
Features
22 2008 AIA MINNESOTA HONOR AWARDS
Introduction by Thomas Fisher, Assoc. AIA
Variety is the spice of . . . architecture awards programs. The 2008 Honor Award winners range from an outdoor room in a Minnesota forest to a terraced university complex on the Mediterranean Sea, with a number of building types and contexts in between.
B’nai Israel Synagogue page 24
By Linda Mack
Hawks Boots Manufacturing Facility page 28
By Thomas Fisher, Assoc. AIA
Charles Hostler Student Center page 32
By Nancy A. Miller
Gladstone Community Center & Natatorium page 34
By Camille LeFevre
Blessed Sacrament Chapel, St. John’s Abbey page 38
By Nancy A. Miller
St. Cloud Technical College & Workforce Center page 40
By Camille LeFevre
St. John’s Abbey Guesthouse page 44
By Christopher Hudson
PINE/Cone page 45
By Phillip Glenn Koski, AIA
47 ON THE WATERFRONT
By Adam Regn Arvidson
Toronto’s ongoing revitalization of its Lake Ontario waterfront is made possible by land availability and financial resources that other North American cities can only dream of. But what really sets the endeavor apart is the fact that Waterfront Toronto, the private agency charged with administering the effort, has adhered to the vision of a world-class roster of landscape architects, architects, and urban designers. Might Toronto be a source of inspiration for additional waterfront projects in Duluth, Minneapolis, and St. Paul?
Departments & Directories
9 Culture Crawl by Camille LeFevre
Your neighborhood mini-golf course will never be the same after you’ve played the Skyway Open in Minneapolis.
11 Speed Reading by Carol Ahlgren
The name Harry Wild Jones may not ring a bell, but the Minnesota buildings he designed sure will. A new book chronicles the architect’s life and work.
13 Material Matters by Nancy A. Miller
X Games architecture, you might call it. David Salmela, FAIA, uses a skateboard-park material in his two latest Honor Award–winning projects.
15 Studio by Adam Regn Arvidson
If the office of Close Landscape Architecture+ were a character in The Odd Couple, it would most certainly be Oscar Madison.
17 Synthesis by Doug Pierce, AIA
A new column by one of Minnesota’s leading sustainable-design advocates explores a comprehensive approach to sustainability.
19 Wayfarer by Paul Crosby
On a break from shooting the Hostler Center at the American University of Beirut, a photographer ventures out to the City of the Sun.
72 Place
Photographer Chuck Avery discovers an otherworldly landscape at the construction site of a large-scale development in Maple Grove.
63 Directory of Landscape Architecture Firms
70 Credits
71 Advertising Index
On the Cover
B’nai Israel Synagogue
Rochester, Minnesota
“The late, great Ezra Stoller once said, ‘Architectural photography is 5 percent inspiration and 95 percent moving furniture,” says photographer Michael Moran. “With this synagogue, we spent time, as we typically do, moving furniture. But this particular shot involved much less labor and a higher percentage of inspiration.”
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.