AECCafe: ArchShowcase

ArchShowcase

Posts Tagged ‘Minneapolis’

Water Works (Minneapolis Parks Foundation) in collaboration with SCAPE Landscape Architecture and Rogers Partners Architects+Urban Designers

Saturday, November 1st, 2014

Article source: Rogers Partners Architects+Urban Designers

SCAPE / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE and ROGERS PARTNERS Architects+Urban Designers create schematic vision for a new public gateway to the Mississippi River’s only true waterfall.

Developed for the Minneapolis Parks Foundation, “Water Works” will be a destination park and neighborhood amenity with nationally significant historic features and year-round appeal.

Image Courtesy © ROGERS PARTNERS architects+urban designers

Architects: Rogers Partners Architects+Urban Designer
Project: Water Works (Minneapolis Parks Foundation) in collaboration with SCAPE Landscape Architecture
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

(more…)

Tags: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Comments Off on Water Works (Minneapolis Parks Foundation) in collaboration with SCAPE Landscape Architecture and Rogers Partners Architects+Urban Designers

Lakewood Cemetery Garden Mausoleum in Minneapolis by HGA Architects and Engineers

Sunday, January 19th, 2014

Article source: HGA Architects and Engineers

The Garden Mausoleum at Lakewood Cemetery required careful consideration of the intimacy of personal grieving and the shared rituals of commemoration. The 24,500-square-foot building is anchored by a two-level structure housing a committal chapel and a reception space.

Image Courtesy © Paul Crosby

Architects: HGA Architects and Engineers
Project: Lakewood Cemetery Garden Mausoleum
Location: Minneapolis, U.S.A
Photography: Paul Crosby
Owner: Lakewood Cemetery
General Contractor: Mortenson Construction
Landscape Architect/ Masterplan Consultant: Halvorson Design Partnership
Mausoleum Consultant: Carrier Mausoleum Construction
Owner Representative: Nelson Tietz & Hoye

(more…)

Tags: Minneapolis, U.S.A.
Comments Off on Lakewood Cemetery Garden Mausoleum in Minneapolis by HGA Architects and Engineers

Mill City Museum in Minneapolis, MN by MS&R Architecture

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

Article source: MS&R Architecture

The Mississippi River is an unbroken thread running through the history of the City of Minneapolisand the Northern Plains region. Saint Anthony Falls—the only waterfall on the Mississippi—has attracted people to the region for thousands of years. By 1880, the falls’ massive power was harnessed to drive the turbines in Minneapolis’ monster flour mills, grinding wheat from the vast western plains into flour.

Mill City Museum

Architects: MS&R Architecture
Project: Mill City Museum
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Software used: AutoCAD

(more…)

Tags: Minneapolis, MN
Comments Off on Mill City Museum in Minneapolis, MN by MS&R Architecture

B+W House in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA by Julie Snow Architects

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

The design of this small residence on a corner lot in the City of Minneapolis was conceived as a progression of defined volumes: beginning with the public front yard, continuing with the two-story portion of the home, following with the tall volume of the living area, the enclosed garden and the garage.

Side Elevation

Architect: Julie Snow Architects
Project Name: B+W House
Project Location: Minneapolis MN
Project Size: 2400 GSF
Project Completion Date: July 2007
Photography Credit: Dean Kaufman

(more…)

Tags: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Comments Off on B+W House in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA by Julie Snow Architects

KNOCK Inc. in Minneapolis, Minnesota by Julie Snow Architects

Sunday, February 27th, 2011

The renovation of a neglected 1960’s food distribution center on the edge of downtown Minneapolis into a gleaming new headquarters for the creative innovators at KNOCK Inc. is both a fresh and welcomed presence on the underrated stretch of Glenwood Avenue.