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When we say commercial aggregate we're not Crushed Granite and many more. So when we trying to be fancy, just accurate. There are say commercial aggregate, we're not trying people who produce just sand and gravel. But to dazzle you . . . just let you know that we at Shiely we try to have everything you need. have more to offer than just sand and gravel. Products like Rip Rap and Keystone Chips and We try to have a broader range of commercial aggregates than anybody else in the business. Macadam Stone and Mineral Filler and J. L. SHIELY CO. QUALITY COMMERCIAL AGGREGATES/READY MIXED CONCRETE 1101 Snelling Avenue N. St. Paul. Minnesota 55108 Phone 646-8601
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sand Rip Rap Concrete (MHDType A,B,C) Fine Sand Filter Blanket (Masonry) Macadam Base Block Sand (3-1/2"-1") Asphalt Sand mineral filler Crushed Stone Base (3/4"-1f200. l-l/2-#200) Roofing Filler Aglime Bituminous Mixture Filler Concrete Aggregate granite Concrete Filler (3/4" & 1-1/2") Keystone Chips Rip Rap (Seal Coat) Derrick Stone Bituminous Aggregate Ballast Concrete Aggregate (3/4" & 1-1/2") Bituminous Aggregate Seal Coat Chips Crushed Stone Base Granite Sand gravel Roofing Concrete Aggregate (3/4" & 1-1/2") Seal Coat NORTHWEST M SUCIETY OF ARCHITECTS ARCHITECT President Bruce Abrahamson, AIA 2675 University Ave., St. Paul, Minn. 55114 "• e-President Saul Smiley, AIA AREA NOTES 5 21 LaSalle, Mpls., Minn. 55403 ecretary John Weaver, AIA 1971 MERIT AWARDS 9 ,30 Oak Grove, Mpls., Minn. 55403 CLEVELAND TERRACE 24 Treasurer 0. Reuben Johnson, AIA 1925 W. County Rd. B-2, St. Paul, Minn. 55113 OFFICIAL FACES 27 Commissioner of Public Affairs Tom Van Housen SIDEWALKS IN THE SKY 333 Sibley, St. Paul, Minn. 55101 28 THE GIDEON POND HOUSE 32 BOARD OF DIRECTORS REVIEW 35 Frederick Bentz, FAIA, Minneapolis John Damberg, AIA, Virginia NEW PRODUCTS 43 Gene Green, AIA, Minneapolis Arthur Haglund, AIA, Samt Paul ADVERTISERS' INDEX 44 Robert Nelson, AIA, Saint Paul Thomas Shefchik, AIA, Duluth James Stageberg, AIA, Minneapolis Arthur Thoma, Duluth Tom Van Housen, AIA, Saint Paul Imm. Past Pres. Richard Whiteman, AIA, Hibbing COVER: Moving Man Series of lithographs. A Executive Director Daniel J. Sheridan group of large scale black and white litho• Suite 100, Northwestern Nat'l. Bank BIdg. graphs, each image 4IV2" x 29V2" in size, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101 drawn on stone by Jerry Rudquist and hand printed by the Martin Graphic Studio, Minne• apolis, in 1970 and 1971. NORTHWEST ARCHITECT EDITORIAL and MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Moving Man is an exploration of the variety of qualities with the theme of a human-like Ed A. Sovik, FAIA, Chairman figure leaping, cruising, stomping, zipping, John C. Anderson, AIA sashaying, hurdling or otherwise moving Elizabeth Close, FAIA through space. The names of the images re• Dave Hall produced are (from left to right, row by row) Bernard Jacob, AIA Loupa, Smole, Wosher, Hummer, Osp, Xoxy, James Lammers Zoog, Taano and Krish. Tom Martinson Gene Peterson, AIA The artist, Jerry Rudquist, has been working Greg Johnson, Advertising Manager and exhibiting in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area for a number of years and is Professor 1821 University Ave., St. Paul, of Art at Macalester College in St. Paul. The Minn. 55104 (646-2641) entire series of lithographs was shown in a West Coast Representative one-man exhibition at the Suzanne Kohn Jay Elsenberg, J. E. Publishers' Representative Gallery in St. Paul last October. Co., 8380 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. 90069 Published by Bruce Publishing Company J. R. Bruce, President
Publication Office: 1821 University Ave., St Paul, Mn. 55104. Northv\/est Architect is pub• lished bi-monthly, with one additional issue in the month of March. Second class postage paid at St. Paul, Minnesota, and at additional mailing offices. Subscription: one year, $3.00, two years $5.00. Foreign rate $4.50. Advertising in Northwest Architect is subject to the approval of the Minnesota Society of Archi• tects' Editorial Committee. Northwest Architect and its publishers disclaim any and all liability for statements made by authors in contributed articles and by suppliers and others in advertisements. Official Publication of the Minnesota Society of Architects VOLUME XXXVI NUMBER 1 Jan.-Feb. 1972
JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1972 Cost efficiency is one of the most important reasons for letting separate contracts
It's been proved over and over again. Both in privately financied construction and in public construction where funds come from taxes. In fact, many states and cities require separate bids. The mechanical portions must be separated from the general constmc- tion bids. The result is that competitive bidding for mechanical work reduces costs, increases efficiency. That's reason enough to let all mechanical contracts separately.
ST. PAUL PIPING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION
PIPING INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
OF MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL
NORTHWEST ARCHITECT MOLIN CONCRETE
ANNOUNCES
ITS NEW LOCATION
Molln Concrete Products Co. has moved to its new manufacturing facility at Lino Lakes, Minn, after producing Flexicore for the past 19 years at our old loca• tion in St. Paul. Our new plant contains all fully automated equipment and new 24" wide by 60'0" long forms. Flexicore plank will be produced in 6", 8", and 10" thicknesses.
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The new firm of MELANDEK AND MELANDER has opened offices in the Lonsdale-Alworth Building in ONLY VINCENT HANDLES Duluth. President of the firm is Donald Knox Melander and Reinhold Melander is Chairman of the Board of ALL OF THESE the new organization. HALVUKSON, MOORE, SPRAGUE AND MOORE is a new Architect-Engineer office in N.D. Principals are Harold A. Halvorson, ARCHITECTORAL METALS Clifford R. Moore, Lee Sprague and Marshall W. Moore. Office address is 112 N. University Drive, Fargo and Call us for engineering assistance, 219 West Main, West Fargo. samples, spec data sheets, descriptive ELLERBE ARCHITECTS has literature, or histories of any of these moved one of its architectural divi• sions from St. Paul to Mpls. The metals —ask for Marv Hork. division, specializing in Medical Clinics and Outpatient Facilities, is We specialize in . . . no maintenance, headed by William R. Shannon, Jr., a Vice-President. H. William Nara will no painting, no replacement metals . . . continue as manager of the Oak Grove office in Mpls.
DE VEL OPER A ND SOLE NA HON A L The Residence Halls at Southwest DISTRIBUTOR OF Minnesota Sate College, Marshall, designed by PARKER, KLEIN AR• If CHITECTS, Mpls. and the Minnesota Federal Savings and Loan Branch, Burnsville, designed by VOIGT FOURRE ARCHITECTS, St. Paul were 1971 winners of the Tennant VINCENT HG T-1 Awards for barrier free architecture. America's finest extruded aluminum The awards were presented at the MSA Convention by the Minnesota fascia and gravelstop system. Available Society for Crippled Children and in mill finish or duronodic bronzes. Adults, Inc. COST EQUAL TO OR LESS THAN SHOP TRUMAN E. HOWELL was named i^rmed^gai^;amzed^oj^l^^ Administrative Associate for Archi• tectural Programming for Horty- One piece construction — one man in• (Continued on page 35) stallation — no maintenance, repair or replacement. Finest in face brick & tile BUILDING PRODUCTS DIVISION V h HEBRON BRICK COMPANY
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NORTHWEST ARCHITECT PROJECT: TARNHILL. APARTMENTS • PHASE 1 • BLOOMIIMGTOIM • MINNESOTA
ARCHITECT: LUNDCaUIST ARCHITECTS. INC. • MINNEAPOLIS • MINNESOTA
GENERAL CONTRACTOR: PEMBLE OEVELOPMENT COMPANY • EOIN A • MIN NESOTA
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: CARL WALKER ASSOCIATES INC.
KALAMAZOO • MICHIGAN • MINNEAPOLIS • MINNESOTA
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INLANO CONSTRUCTION COMPANY • EDINA • MINNESOTA
PRECAST SUPPLIER • SPANCRETE MIOWEST COMPANY • OSSEO • MINNESOTA
SPANCRETE MIOWEST COMPANY FURNISHEO AND INSTALLED ABOUT 100,000
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ARCHITECT • CARL NOROQUIST • MINNEAPOLIS • MINNESOTA
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CO°NTRACTOR-OWNER • ELMO GINK^L • HOPKINS • MINNESOTA
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PRECAST STAIRS, ANO SOME PRECAST BEAMS AND COLUMNS ON THIS PROJECT.
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The 1971 Honor Awards competition recognized architectural excellence in projects by Minnesota Architects. The foUowing pages pay tribute to the six Merit Award Winners as selected from a field of 83 entrants. The 1971 Honor Awards (Oct/Nov issue Northwest Architect) and the Merit Awards exempli• fy the quality of architecture being practiced by the profession in Minnesota
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Hodne Residence Minneapolis, Minnesota The Hodne/Stageberg Partners, Inc.
NORTHWEST ARCHITECT 10 ITAWARDSM ERITAWARDSM ERITA WARDS M ERITA WARDS
NEED: Major living/activity space for a large, vibrant family. GOAL: Preservation of the street and neighborhood environment. SOLUTION: A 3-level volume of living/activity linked to existing structure of sleeping/eating with an entry bridge.
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Brooklyn Center Fire Station Brooklyn Park, Minnesota Cerny Associates, Inc.
SITE PLAN - FLOOR PL*
NORTHWEST ARCHITECT 12 RDSMERITAWARDSMERITAWARDSMERITA WARDS MERITi
NEED: A small building to serve the requirements of a volunteer Fire Department for a community of 35.000.
GOAL: Building to relate well to surrounding neighborhood but at the same time retain its distinct character as a public service building.
SOLUTION: A simple rectangular building mass, unpretentious and restrained.
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Church of Saint Rita Cottage Grove, Minnesota Hammel, Green, and Abrahamson
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NEED: A parish center for a SOLUTION: A concrete block, simple suburban bedroom community of low form with two distinctively different income families. worship spaces — Liturgy of the Word Place and the Hall of GOAL: Inexpensive, honest Celebration. architecture with special attention to the distant views to the north.
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Performing Arts Center, Santa Cruz University of California Santa Cruz Ralph Rapson and Associates
16 NORTHWEST ARCHITECT RITAWARDSMERITAWARDS MERITA WARDS MERITA WARDS
NEED: A center for the arts, related facilities for theater, music, dance and the visual arts.
GOAL: To make the center one of the main foci for campus and community life.
SOLUTION: A theater and drama department as the central focus with flanking art and music departments. A large lid covers the theater and unifies the various related building groups.
JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1972 17 KWARDSMERITAWARDSMERITAWARDSMERITAWARDSME
Minnetonka Municipal Building Minnetonka, Minnesota Thorsen and Thorshov
18 NORTHWEST ARCHITECT I^ARDSMERITAWARDSMERITAWARDSMERITAWARDSMERI
NEED: A new city hall on a large site for a suburban community.
GOAL: A total development plan for an active civic center with the city hall as the focus.
SOLUTION: Two levels under a copper clad simple rooCform. Future expansion by the addition of a floating mezzanine over the first floor loft area.
JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1972 19 ^WARDSMERITAWARDSMERITAWARDSMERITAWARDSMEI
Neil A. Armstrong Senior High School Plymouth Village, Minnesota Bissel, Belair & Green
NORTHWEST ARCHITECT 20 ARDSMERITAWARDSMERITAWARDSMERITAWARDSMERI
NEED: A Senior High School for 2,400 students on a wooded 54 acre site
GOAL. An inviting flexible building that accommodates the natural amenities of the site
SOLUTION: A campus plan with building units connected by a major concourse which follows an irregular ridge & bridges the natural ravine that bisects the site.
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METAL WALL PANELS charles Regency Hyatt House, Atlanta CURTAINWALLS nasby Architect: John Portman, Atlanta EXPOSED AGGREGATE PANELS associates, A ROMANY-SPARTAN® FLOOR for the nations ALUMINUM WINDOWS "most talked about" hotel GREENHOUSES The $18-mi!Iion, 800-room Regency Hyatt House in At• 612-927-6212 lanta's growing Peachtree Center is unique. ... to say EDEN 100 BUILDING the least. And Romany-Spartan ceramic tile played an STEEL WINDOWS 5100 EDEN AVE important part in the decor of the 22-story-high lobb>- MPLS .MINN. 55436 which is overlooked by balconied corridors. The lobb>- WALL SYSTEMS floor had to be tough enough to withstand the traffic of millions of feet. But it also had to have old-world charm and graciousness. So Romany-Sparlan Or- san® 11 Cork Tan heavy duty ceramic floor tiles were chosen . . . some 648,000 STRUCTURAL STONE WARE of them, covering 36,000 square feet. The 2"x4"x3/8" Orsan tiles were hand-set in WENCZEL TILE fan-shaped patterns to create an old European cohblestone effect. INTRESTADO TILE CERAMIC TILE call or write: KATELO CERAMICS TEC ADHESIVES Rollin B. Child, Inc. DISTRIBUTOR 420 Excelsior Ave. West Hopkins, Minn. 55344 PHONE: 612-938-2785 J J Minnesota Tile Supply ii Over 20 years of service to the construction •JJ*:^ iKWCf \CR1H \MNM AIVI/S VlWNt"«0(A industry for ceramic tile, carpets and related lEllPHONE 612 ^ii 2461 products.
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Cleveland Terrace — Twin Cities First Archi• tecturally-Designed Condominium
For years, dutifully, I mowed our Then came a flash of insight. To an lawn as the sun and rain demanded, architect! Perhaps the most over• shoveled our walks and driveway looked role an architect plays is that when the snow came, and struggled of problem-solver for exactly such through the usual change-overs from problems. The stereotype of an archi• by screens to storms and back to tect as a designer of buildings had James I. Brown screens, as the seasons dictated. And blinded me to his role as designer of for years I noticed that these de• life style and quality. mands on my time seldom coincided Sure enough — consultation with with the leisure that would make our architects uncovered a new con• them, if not exactly pleasurable cept — condominiums — entirely highlights, at least much less annoy• new to the Twin Cities area. It ing or frustrating. seemed to provide the best of all My talk of these problems with a possible worlds. It combined the friend got me this advice: "Move into pleasures and advantages of home- an apartment. You'll solve all those ownership with the freedom and problems." I pointed out that such a advantages of apartment living, move would just mean changing one eliminating most of the disadvan• set of unwanted problems for an• tages of both. Since it was possible to other. With our own home, we had acquire the three and a half lots sizable tax and interest deductions immediately south of our present which would be lost completely if we home in the residential area known moved into an apartment. Further• as St. Anthony Park, we did acquire more, increases in rent might well those lots and set the architects to force us into frequent traumas of work. decision making, necessitating sub• The architects met a difficult three• Cleveland Terrace Apartments sequent moves into other apartments. fold challenge with amazing percep- 1261-69 No. Cleveland Avenue St. Paul. Minnesota What do you do about problems of tiveness. this kind? Where do you go for help? In the first place, they had to Completed March 1970 Architects: Close Associates, Inc. Where, indeed? Nowhere I could design one large building with four• Builder: Paul Larson Construction Com• think of They're hardly problems to teen apartment units, covering al• pany take to a psychiatrist! most 3 city lots, in such a way as to 24 NORTHWEST ARCHITECT 1
fit attractively and appropriately This meant extra sound-proofing to freedom. into a quiet residential area. Since give each owner a feeling of being in Certainly the architects had met the project required re-zoning to his own home, not being aware of head-on the many problems of de• permit any apartment to be con• others below, above, or next to him. signing living space for the best of all structed, the design was crucial. If Suspending the ceilings helped to possible worlds. the neighbors in the block did not minimize noise and vibration from Now came the bids and the settling want such a large building, they had one floor to the one below. In addi• on a contractor for what appeared to' only to refuse to sign the petition and tion, the building was designed so be about a $400,000 project, including the whole project would fall through. that no door opened unto a hall op• the cost of the 3^ lots, the architec• The architects solved this problem by posite another's door. Each entrance tural and legal services, plus the ser• using color and variations in setback was a half flight above or below, vices of a mortgage broker to provide and contour, to give the appearance again adding to a feeling of privacy. the financing and administration of of three almost separate buildings Finally, the third problem to be construction. The mortgage broker rather than one large one. This pleas• solved was that of designing the en• stipulated that seven of the fourteen ing design made it possible to get the tire building as well as each individu• units would have to have buyers in required signatures without too al unit so as to take an absolute advance of construction. They would much effort. minimum of maintenance, upkeep, then arrange individual mortgages The second problem, architec• and repair. For example, Anderson requiring 30% cash, the remaining turally speaking, was to design each Perma-Shield windows provided 70% to be paid over a 20-year period, separate apartment unit to seem like ideal insulation and eliminated the with interest at 8%. a home, not an apartment. Room need to re-putty, re-paint the trim, or The project was shaping up nicely. proportions and window placement store storms or screens. The garages We lined up four definite buyers. If were quite important. How often in were cement block construction, with we and the architects agreed to take an ordinary apartment do you have fiberglass doors which never need three apartments, that would give us more than two exposures? In the painting. The white siding had a the seven units needed to begin con• Cleveland Terrace design, even a special baked-on plastic finish which struction. one-bedroom apartment had three was guaranteed not to crack, blister, Then, just days before the final exposures — north, south, and west! check, or peel for a period of ten papers were signed with the mort• All three-bedroom apartments had years, and guaranteed against hail gage broker, the prime interest rate four exposures, just as in a single damage for 25. Such things mini• moved up a notch and all those home. Privacy was another quality to mized demands on time, effort, and carefully made arrangements col- be designed into each apartment. money, giving us a real feeling of (Contimied on page 38) JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1972 25 Enduring MAMKATO STONE
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Four distinguished architects were elected to leadership positions by the Minnesota Society of Architects at its annual convention in November. These gentlemen have accepted the challenge of their office as President Bruce Abrahamson, of January 1st and will be AIA, Hammel, Green and directing Society business in Abrahamson, Architects-En• 1972. gineers, St. Paul, is easily identified by his mild mannered bow ties. Mr. Abrahamson is president of his firm and is past Vice President of the Minnesota Society of Architects. After receiving a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Minnesota and his Masters degree from Harvard, a Rotch Traveling Scholarship provided a year of study in Europe.
Saul Smiley, AIA, is the new wire-rimmed Vice President of MSA. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Minnesota and in 1946 founded his own firm of S. C. Smiley and Associates. In recent years he has served as president of the Minneapolis Chapter of the AIA and as a Secretary, John Weaver, director of MSA from the associate with Haarstick Minneapolis Chapter. Lundgren and Associates, is a distinguished bearded gentleman. Mr. Weaver has been a director of the MSA from the St. Paul Chapter of the AIA for the past three years. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree O. Rueben Johnson is often seen from the University of Nebraska peering over his glasses when and did graduate work at the financial questions are raised. Massachusetts Institute of This is Mr. Johnson's second Technology. term as treasurer. He has been Vice President of Buetow and Associates for eight years, prior to which he was a partner with Adkins-Johnson Architects. Johnson received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Minnesota and Master's from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1972 27 Sidewalks in the Sky
The sky's the limit for side• owners and city planners to eludes elevated sidewalks in walks in a growing array of U.S. jointly plan downtown renewal, plans in Rochester, Springfij cities. Pedestrian crossings that growing use of air rights, efforts and Washington. arch between buildings, span to ease congestion on streets and A San Francisco owner ^^ streets, separate vehicles from a tendency to treat urban devel• wanted to unify two old c| walkers, and unite buildings or opment as a super-block, district storage warehouses into whJ whole parts of cities above street or zone instead of a collection of sale showrooms discovered f level are completed, under con• individual buildings which may would be cheaper and quickeij struction or proposed in such not relate to each other ef• construct a $120,000 five-lef diverse cities as Minneapolis, St. ficiently. The AIA calls this con• steel and glass pedestrian bri( Paul, Reno, Memphis, Atlanta, cept urban design and says it than to persuade citizens Denver. Cincinnati, Rochester, requires teamwork by design vacate an alley. The tastd N. Y., Springfield, Mass., and professionals, support by land bridge by architect Alb Washington, D. C, The Ameri• owners and city staffs and under• Aronson, AIA, and engineer Q can Institute of Architects has standing by citizens. Avvakumovits was one of projects cited as outstanding reported. "Originally Arlington County year by the American Instit looked at the pedestrian bridges "Given an improvement in the of Steel Construction. The al as a solution to Rosslyn's vehicle economy and more mortgage fi• is still open to traffic but no and people traffic crush," ex• nancing for construction, I'd say drives through it now. we will see a tripling or quadru• plained Richard Arms, AIP, pling of elevated passageways in former county planning director. Cincinnati, St. Paul and W this country in the next 10 "Now we see the overhead side• neapolis probably have the ni years," predicts Brock Arms, walks as much more, as a uni• extensive plans for eleval AlA of Glencoe, 111. Arms was fying force tying the develop• walkways. the architect who designed pe• ment together and making it By 1973 the Ohio metropi destrian bridges and walkways work." expects to have a 12-block that will link 40 buildings in the "What these connections can cond-story pedestrian concou Rosslyn complex at Arlington, do" in a reviving older part of a which will cost from $12 mill Va., across the Potomac River city "is to provide a quick and to $15 million. Already th from Washington, D. C. easy way of overlapping the old blocks of the system are bi and a fourth is under consti These trends are spurring con• with the new," noted George tion. "Just like an octopus, struction of above-grade side• Marcou, AIP, a Washington central spine will have legs i walks: a marriage of private planning consultant who in-
NORTHWEST ARCHITECT 28 n grow in several directions," St. Paul is organizing a 12- department store and a major ints out Paul Ashworth, grad- block downtown, second-level hotel. The city now has seven te architect in Cincinnati's pedestrian system which goes to skyways. "We could end with 55 ban development department, and through some key buildings. street crossings," said City Engi• e old river city "has a very In 1968 the skywalk scheme neer Clayton A. Sorenson. "The rrow street system and a very received a national design award key is how you connect them. |mpact business district." Thus, from HUD. Including bridges You have to go through build• ? second-level sidewalks, and payments to land owners, ings. You have to convince busi• ich open to hotels, stores and walking above street level nessmen that the passages create |rking, have great attraction, throughout the central business new areas of rental space and d architect Willard C. Pistler, district will cost St. Paul from higher rentals." Sorenson thinks AIA, who designed the $4.5 million to $5 million. Two of Minneapolis can prove this. Two Duffer Cincinnati Inn that the skywalks are completed and of the bridges — graceful slivers ^ns on the concourse. "We two more were started recently. of glass and steel — won a 1970 nted to maintain this tight "We look at them as normal side• National Honor Award for de• siness area which brings con- walks, as a public right-of-way, sign excellence from AIA for the nience to office workers, even though they're not at street architectural firm, The Cerny loppers and convention goers level and the city maintains Associates Inc. of Minneapolis. d we also had to separate them as it would sidwalks," said Although the city has a icks and cars from pedestrians, Donald W. Cosgrove, chief of skyway plan — charting where the concourse evolved," he planning for the city's urban it would like the crossings to k>lained. housing-renewal authority. He move — it does not demand uni• said the overhead sidewalk loop ;;^incinnati and St. Paul are form architecture. "Each one is should be finished by the end of ying for the skywalks out of individually designed," noted 1973. ban renewal funds. Min- Sorenson. In Rosslyn, St. Paul apolis' extensive system so far Almost 10 years ago Min• and Cincinnati, however, the been purchased by private neapolis started moving pedes• overhead walkways, share a |id owners and building devel- trians through the Minnesota common design. "My job at !rs. Other cities use a combi- winters and above traffic by way Rosslyn," recalls Brock Arms, ion of public and private of enclosed, heated street "was to design a bridge which ney and all require some form bridges. The passageways go to could be lengthened or raised, contribution from private banks, insurance office build• could link dissimilar architec• ners. ings, parking, shops, a large ture and still be simple and at-
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tractive." In St. Paul, Bruce A. Center has been proposed which borhood is considering uniting a Abrahamson, AIA, designed the would span historic Virginia new library and faculty office exposed steel pedestrian con• Street near the start of the building, over parking, by means course so it would appear simple Nevada city's tourist-gambling of pedestrian bridges which "and universal to successfully quarter. Urban design students would be extensions of open connect buildings of various from the University of California decks. styles," said Cosgrove. in Berkeley presented the con• "It would be cheaper to close streets," admitted George Pedestrian crossings can be cept to RENOvation Inc., re• Marcou, "but that can take a used for more than movement, as ported Edward S. Parsons, AIA, great deal of time and the effort shown by Florence, Italy's famed a RENOvation trustee and pres• often is not successful." "You Ponte Vecchio bridge which con• ident of AIA's Nevada chapter. want to provide these connec• tained shops as early as the The center would cost from tions in ways that maximize the 1300's. Two service crossings $500,000 to $750,000. movement and pleasure of peo• astride Illinois tollway segments Elevated sidewalks are being ple," noted Marcou. He included near Chicago have large restau• planned in some cities as exten• pedestrian bridges and rants as well as service stations. sions of platform development, walkways in plans for Bay State Between Denver's Hilton Hotel which uses air rights. Memphis' West stores, parking, offices and and May-DF Department Store a 16-acre Operation Breakthrough a motel in Springfield, Mass., in bridge supports a restaurant. site, where HUD and private Rochester, N. Y., to connect Mid- Denver's new exhibition-conven• companies will erect housing town Plaza and Xerox head• tion hall is connected to its audi• units as part of a nationwide quarters to parking, and in New torium by a bridge which also drive to manufacture factory- Orleans to open the Mississippi offers a restaurant. Cincinnati's built, quality shelter, is in a River promenade to French elaborate one-mile system of bowl, site of old railroad tracks. Quarter visitors. second-story sidewalks already Louisville architects F. R. Louis, invites strollers to a small, land• AIA, and A. R. Henry, AIA, A spectacular sidewalk in the scaped plaza atop a truck deli• proposed elevated sidewalks sky has connected the Wrigley very depot. which will carry residents from Building's two sections in Chi• the platform over parking to rec• cago since 1931 at the 14th floor Shops, eating facilities, ticket reation and transportation out• but it is not open to the public. agencies could be located ad• side the bowl. George Washing• San Francisco's Hilton Hotel has jacent to many of the upper-level ton University in the national just installed a 41-ton steel sidewalks being planned. In capital's Foggy Bottom neigh• walkway from its 16th floor to a Reno, a three-story Visitors'
NORTHWEST ARCHITECT 30 rooftop swimming pool for use of ning $100,000 but some are guests. City, for example, the nation's costing double that because most densely populated, has few Atlanta's Peachtree Center has they're bigger and more intri• pedestrian bridges. They've been become perhaps the top tourist cately detailed," said Sorenson. proposed and there have been attraction in town by offering Cincinnati figures its elaborate opportunities to install them. the public 766 feet of cai'peted concourse, which runs through Max O. Urbahn, FAIA, an AIA aerial walkways, including two alleys, costs around $1 million director, explained: "Manhattan that are 22 stories in the air con• per block. is parcels of real estate, islands. necting the Gas Light Tower to "There's no question this will This makes implementation of the Merchandise Mart and the be done more" as cities struggle an overall plan, which would Mart to the main Center build• to revive, thinks Sorenson. include better pedestrian circu• ing. Architect John C. Portman, "It's going to become a com• lation, difficult." Jr., FAIA, expects additional petitive development. Building "The problem is to get all 40 walkways as Peachtree Center owners will have to install the expands. Beside providing an al• property owners, at say a place walkways just like air condition• like Rosslyn, to behave like ternate traffic route, the eight- to ing," predicts Arlington's Rich• nine-foot wide carriers also "pro• brothers," noted Richard Arms. ard Arms. "It will become a "I guess it takes a little govern• vide a needed visual connection," necessity. The issue will become said Portman. ment muscle" in the form of new a matter of how well the side• zoning, tax incentives, a mix of Cost of aerial walkways is but walks are treated, whether they urban renewal, "to do that." a small fraction of overall proj• are carefully thought out and de• "In the past we've divorced all ect costs, said Portman. It has signed." these things — circulation, build• ranged from $10 to $100 per Rosslyn walkway designer ing, public services. Now we've square foot for his crossings. The Brock Arms pointed out "it does suddenly got enough examples Rosslyn pedestrian bridges, from require official help from local to see the only way we're going 12 to 15 feet wide, have run government to make this to reinforce urban life is to in• $75,000 to $110,000. "The cost is happen. First, the great barrier tegrate these systems." said really minute when you think of between officialdom and private Brock Arms. a $5 million building," says developers has to be overcome. Marvin F. Weissberg, the key The places where overhead cir• Rosslyn developer. Minneapolis' culation has occurred are places skyways "used to cost around with aggressive architects and $80,000 apiece. Now they're run• property owners." New York
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JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1972 31 The Gideon Pond House
ified nonprofit organizations for There is an increasing aware• with all areas except the living room retaining the charm of the restoration and rehabilita• ness that our environment must tion of buildings listed on the recognize the beauty and char• their original wide-board floors. The character of its builder. register. No federal funds can be acter of the past in order to build expended for preservation of the future with integrity. The Rev. Gideon Pond, is reflected in the dignified nature of the historic sites not included on the recent acceptance of the Gideon list. An agency has been desig• Pond Home, Bloomington, Min• home. There is no presumptu- ousness and little elegance in nated in each state to establish nesota, to the National Register a planning program for preser• of Historic Sites, Buildings and this frontier building, yet it is disciplined in the teachings of vation efforts in that state and Districts exemplifies the concern to process all nominations to the of Minnesota architects for the the lay missionary. The Pond House sits high on a bluff over• register. The Minnesota Histori• preservation of historic re• cal Society, headed by its State sources. looking the Minnesota River where once the Indians, white Liaison Officer, is charged with The cubical brick home of this work in Minnesota. Gideon Pond is an excellent settlers and military men of the example of pre-Civil War archi• area gathered to hear the scrip• It is anticipated that state tecture. Built 115 years ago, this tures preached. preservation funds will soon be structure is described by Foster The Gideon Pond House available for those Minnesota Dunwiddie, AIA, as "a rare (for stands as a historic reflection of sites listed on the National Reg• Minnesota) example of Middle a distinctive example of Middle ister. If passed, such a state law Atlantic style brick house with Atlantic style brick house and would require, as does the fed• some Greek revival detail," [Mr. as the home of one of the most eral law now, that no govern• Dunwiddie was instrumental in important early Minneapolis ment money can be allocated to preparing the application for settlers. It rightly takes its place a project which will destroy or registration of the Gideon Pond on the National Register. alter a building or district which House.] The Historic Preservation Act is listed as a National Site unless of 1966 established, under the it can be shown that the change The exterior of the house is is in the public interest. of symmetrical design carried direction of the National Parks out on a salmon-colored brick, Service, A National Register of A building may merit preser• made by hand on the site. The Historic Sites, Buildings and vation consideration for one or general detail of the house is Districts. Federal monies are more of three factors: historic classic in character with pine available from this fund and association, sentimental attach• trim. The interior walls and ceil• other sources such as xIUD to ment, architectural merit. While ings are plaster and wood lath, governmental agencies and qual• the State Historical Society is NORTHWEST ARCHITECT 32 well qualified to assess the rela• than was available in other stu• The Rev. Gideon H. Pond was tive value of the first two, it has dies such as the Historic Ameri• born in Connecticut in 1810. He asked architects to assist in the can Buildings Survey which and his brother Samuel came to nomination of buildings which catalogued 15,000 historic land• Minnesota in 1834 as lay mis• are distinctive examples of a marks since the 1930's, over half sionaries to tutor the Dakota style or architecture or type of of which has since been de• Indians in farming, domestic construction; or a typical illus• stroyed. The presence of a build• arts and Christianity. They be• tration of a building type once ing on the National Register gan their work near Lake Cal• prevalent in the region. Because demonstrates its significance as houn, but later moved the mis• a building is at its best when a historical resource, thus, dis• sion to the bluff overlooking the seen in the context of its origi• pelling any arguments that en• Minnesota River where the nal setting, consideration is to danger its preservation. house now stands. A schood be given to the nomination of building was adjacent. The cubical brick home of an important districts still relative• The brothers Pond knew He• ly intact, such as the lower Sum• early missionary, built 115 years ago in Bloomington, Minnesota, brew, Greek, Latin, French and mit area in St. Paul, warehouse spoke the Sioux language fluent• and milling districts in both of has been accepted for the Na• tional Register of Historic Sites, ly. They developed an alphabet the Twin Cities, and pos• and published a spelling book, a sibly the whole villages of Old Buildings and Districts. The Gid• eon Pond home was nominated dictionary, translations of scrip• Frontenac, Marine on St. Croix, ture and other writings. They Wasioja and others. The society by the architects of the state through the Historical Society, served the Indians and also the particularly asks that architects white settlers and military men recommend buildings and dis• to the National Parks Service, which administers the Register of the area. The First Presby• tricts architecturally worthy of terian Church of Oak Grove was preservation and complete those through an act of 1966. It will re• ceive protection by law, and may organized in the Gideon Pond sections of the nomination forms home in 1855, and the Rev. Mr. requesting building description receive public funds for restora• tion and maintenance. Pond was its pastor for 18 years and the reasons for its signifi• thereafter. He died in 1878. cance. The house is a fine reflection The promise of rehabilitation of the character of Gideon Pond, and restoration funds and the who was a man of courage and hope of time delay when govern• venturesomeness, and also a mental projects threaten demoli• thoughtful and disciplined schol• tion, put more teeth in this law ar.
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34 NORTHWEST ARCHITECT REVIEW architecture, however, Scully challenges Giedion, Gropius, Breuer and the whole Harvard group, AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM including the second generation leaders; Philip by Vincent Scully Frederick A. Praeger, Pub• Johnson just barely escapes his wrath. lishers, New York His method seems all the more regretable when it becomes clear that what he has been working up to all The urbanity, wit and scholarship Vincent Scully in• this time is Robert Venturi. jects in this work make for enjoyable, and often in• Scully is well known as one of Venturi's most ar• furiating reading. He is frequently opinionated, ticulate propagandists and in the end this book is a prejudiced, affected and mocking. well done tracte raisonne for Venturi. Venturi's prin• Scully sets out to concern himself with "the meaning ciples of "accomodation" in architecture are very con• of American Architecture and with an assessment of vincing and were both prophetic and influential at the the kind of human environment it has created". He time his book "Complexity and Contradiction in reviews the rise of American architecture carefully Architecture" was published. Scully's book is exciting and at times lyrically and relates its development to and will be rewarding for those who care about the the rise of urbanism in America. In many ways, the development of the most recent images in architec• new urbanism is modern architecture. With modern ture. —TSA
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Elving And Associates, Inc. Architec• tural, Engineering and Planning Firm. Howell is a graduate of the University of Kansas. JAMES M. COOPERMAN, AR• CHITECTS have moved to new of• fices at 400 Shelard Plaza South, Mpls. 55426. . . . and Projects Minnesota BAKER ASSOCIATES, INC., Mpls. architects are working with General Contractor D. W. Harstad Co. on a negotiated contract for con• struction of the Blaine State Park Building. GRISWOLD AND RAUMA, INC. have completed plans for a Dental Clinic in Brooklyn Center. The one story structure will have metal stud walls inside and out.
Final approval of Coon Rapids au• thorities was granted a 500 unit apartment project designed by MILLER, MELBY AND HANSON of Mpls. Also in Coon Rapids approval has been achieved for a 53 unit devel• opment planned by JEAN PAUL Century Chain-link Fence BADINGER, Mpls. Architect. Would be vandals, trespassers and thieves can't top this unclimbable fence. The Sweitzer of Edina Nursing Home is under construction in Edina. Neither can competition. There's a Century top style for every outdoor The building was designed by WAL• storage need: 45° Rampart type, Bulwark "Y" arm as well as other LACE AND MUNDT ARCHITECTS Palisade, Rampart and Bulwark types. And Century can give you the and will provide care for 169 patients. gate for every purpose. All posts and fittings are hot dipped galvan• ized to withstand the ravages of the elements . . . and now ... all chain A computer facility for Burroughs link fabric is hot dipped aluminized to endure time and weather even Corp. is being built in St. Paul's years longer. Materials can be purchased separately or completely in• Riverview Industrial Park. Designed by COTTLE-HERMAN ARCHI• stalled by Century erection crews from your nearby Century office. TECTS, INC. the project will com• plete Burroughs Branch Headquar• StE THE fAGfS ters facility. Phone for FREE estimate — no obligation Frederick BENTZ/MILO THOMPSON AND ASSOCIATES 50 Century Fence Company have completed plans for a Student 1409 WEST COUNTY ROAD C • ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA 55113 JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1972 35 Union Building at Concordia College. BAKER ASSOCIATES have com• Hospital and are supervising con• The estimated $600,000 building en• pleted plans for a three story home struction of the Westonka Branch closes about 23,800 square feet. for Home Federal Savings and Loan Library. Association in the I.D.S. Tower ELDON MORRISON, White Bear Annex. HAMMEL, GREEN AND ABRA- Lake architect has an estimated HAMSON, St. Paul Architects are $222,300 Townhouse Complex under ARMSTRONG, SCHLICHTING, supervising construction of the construction in Edina and is working TORSETII AND SKOLD are Northeast Community Library on plans for a retail store and apart• working on preliminary plans for a Building in Mpls. and a classroom ment project in White Bear Lake. new Junior High School for Shako- building on the campus of Hamline pee. PLAGENS and McGEE, INC. have University. completed plans for a five story Architects MATSON AND WEG- Andrew Board and Care Home to be LEITNER of Mpls. have been se• Schematic design was recently built in Mpls. lected by the Lakeville Board of completed for Hennepin County Hos• Education to undertake expansion of pital estimated to cost between $25 The CERNY ASSOCIATES are their school facilities. and $28 million. Architects are MED• negotiating an estimated $4.5 million ICAL FACILITIES ASSOCIATES, construction contract with Gunner Architect ROGER JOHNSON AND a joint venture of LIEBENBERG, Johnson & Son for a 24 story apart• ASSOCIATES have completed plans KAPLAN GLOTTER AND AS• ment structure in Mpls. for an addition to the Mpls. Veterans SOCIATES, S. C. SMILEY AND AS• SOCIATES and THORSEN AND THORSHOV, INC. SETTER, LEACH AND LIND- STROM are supervising construction of a new Senior High School in South A lot of engineers St. Paul. The two story brick struc• ture was bid for about $2.2 million. • ATTRACTIVE said you couldn't • BLENDS WITH NATURAL Plans are complete for the West St. SURROUNDINGS Paul Civic Center Arena. Designed • GLARE FREE improve on B-tu-Mix by ADKINS-JACKELS AS•
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HAHN ASSOCIATES of St. Cloud. construction of Phas SEIFERT & STASZKO AS• Webster Elementary Winona State College is building a SOCIATES of Fargo are working on ster, S.D. general classroom building, to cost preliminary plans for an addition to $2.3 million. W. SMITH ARCHITEC• the Fargo Biltmore Motor Hotel and Wisconsin . . . XES, TURAL AND ENGINEERING SER• for the Huckes Fine Arts Center at STUBENRAUCH VICES was the design firm of the 3 the University of N.D. WELLS, DEN- INC. of Shetxjygan story masonry building. BROOK, ADAMS, Grand Forks Ar• proposed new Junio: S. C. SMILEY AND ASSOCIATES chitects are completing plans for a $4 Rhinelander School have completed working drawings for an estimated $9 million addition to Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids. Architects ELIZABETH AND WINSTON CLOSE are developing plans for a Freshwater Biological In• stitute. Total project cost is estimated to be $4 million; site is on Lake Min- netonka. STAHL-WOLF-PETERSON, INC., have completed plans for an office and manufacturing facility for Lake Street Industries in Plymouth. A low and moderate income housing project is being planned for Richfield. Archi• tect for the $4 million project is MILLER, MELBY AND HANSON of Mpls. The project has federal fi• nancing under the 236 program and will contain 234 units. PATCH, ERICKSON, MADSON AND HANSON, INC. are part of a team studying a possible domed foot• ball stadium to be east of the present Met Stadium. The Bloomington and Richfield city councils have insti• tuted the study. BISSELL. BELAIR AND GREEN presented estimates for $11 million to the Mounds View School District recently. The proposal includes ex• pansion of Irondale High School and construction of a new junior high to house 900 to 1200 students. The Dakotas . . . HENGEL ASSOCIATES, Rapid NON-COM"® FiVe Protected Lumber and City, S.D. Architect has completed Non-combustible wood to conh-ol and contain fire. Rated plans for remodeling of the Evangel• Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. ical Freed Church of Rapid City. KOCH, HAZARD AND AS• "WOLMAN"® SALTS FCAP By Pressure SOCIATES of Sioux Falls, S.D. are .supervising construction of the West- Sure protection against rof, decay, and termites. Clean, paintable and wood Branch of the Northwestern regular tools. National Bank of Sioux Falls. icf Architect-Engineers KOEHNLEIN, "WOUWAN"® SALTS CCA-C Ageless, best for g. LIGHTOWLER, JOHNSON and Ucentee of KOPPERS COMPANY, INC. MAIER of Fargo, N.D. have com• Operating Thra* Pressura Treating Cylinderi pleted plans for a dial office addition for Northwestern Bell in West Fargo, N.D. A federal office building designed by the SPITZNAGEL PARTNERS, G.M. STEWART WHOLESALE LUMBER & TREAF INC. Sioux Falls, and HERGES, THE UPPER MIDWEST'S LARGEST YARD KIRCHGASLER AND AS- SOCIATES, Aberdeen, is on display Phones: 378-1520 — 331-5543 at General Services Administration 421 JOHNSON STREET N. E. MINNEAPOLIS, Headquarters in Washington. The proposed building was selected from Region 6 of GSA. JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1972 as the school board's consul- Cleveland Terrace After much brainstorming, just in all phases except the fin- ('Co7it?nned/ro7n page 25) such a concept began to evolve. It Stubenrauch had completed was built around an unusually close y of feasibility and use of all lapsed. Overnight, all sources of co-operative effort between property liool facilities earlier this year. money dried up — mortgage broker, owners, architects, builder, and ^NARD W. MEYER AND AS- banks, home loan associations. What buyers, with a lawyer who knew real TES of Milwaukee have com- do you do when customary methods estate and condominiums well plans for a Humanities of financing fail? Toftler would prob• enough to insure the feasibility of the ng at the University of Wis- ably call this a good example of "fu• plan. , Madison. ture shock." The architects had to agree to es• hysical Science addition will The architects had drawn up ideal tablish an escrow fund together with be under construction in plans, seven of the units had buyers, us, the property owners, thus in• ns Point for the University, the builder was ready to begin. But suring sufficient collateral to com• itects are SANDSTEDT- — without the requisite financing, plete the project. The builder had to «P-YARBO of Oshkosh. the whole project was doomed. agree if necessary to accept apart• Stevens Point campus will also Oh for a book, How to Succeed in ment units in lieu of the usual cash new Environmental Science Btiilding Your Own Condominium payments, provided some apartment _ for which SAMPLE and Without Really Enough Money! Oh units were not sold by completion or ER of Madison have completed for a new concept in financing to shortly after. The buyers had to agree meet this new situation! to schedule their payments to coin• cide with the estimated need for con• struction money. Since this elimi• nated the need for a construction loan at 8 percent interest, the buyers were given a discount of that amount. ghting designs that blend Actually that amounted to more than 8 percent, since they did not pay the entire amount when work began, but ith architectural thought made smaller spaced payments up to o our design staff, there are no ordinary closing time. This meant that they Shting jobs. Whether built in, affixed to walls, or could keep part of the full amount at •jspended overhead, each B M D & R fixture is interest until needed, thus getting an ©signed to enrich the interior in which it is used. estimated 10 percent advantage. When these steps had been taken, fiere's nothing new about our design philosophy, the project had sufficient un• 'e ve been putting it to good use for over 46 years. derwriting to get a bank interested. a very real sense, we are "partners in creativity" The bank provided an additional ith architects and engineers — reaching our $78,000 — mortgages on five apart• ommon goals through the mutual sharing of Ideas, ments at 50 percent of full value, 8 "oday you see "The B M D & R Touch" in scores of percent interest. = hurches. schools, hotels, banks, hospitals, Gradually, like a jigsaw puzzle, the i brarles, and restaurants. The results, our clients pieces of the new plan fell into place. «ll us, are distinctive fixtures that create a The construction contract was signed armonious bond between building design and September 5, 1969. Work then began roven lighting techniques. with the assurance of sufficient n your next project, call us for money to carry it to completion. our complete lighting needs, Another buyer bought into the eanwhile, get your free copy of project in December, two more in lur 24-page, 4-color booklet. March, just months before the closings in May. These sales di• Creative Architectural Lighting." minished the drain on the escrow lust phone collateral. The closings went without a hitch. Cleveland Terrace had be• come a reality. M D S. R One young couple, shortly after 1.^1 GHTING moving in, made history by being the first couple in the State of Minnesota ^^^J a civision of Scemer Ughcing. Inc to have a baby born to them while "7020 Walker Slreel living in a condominium. The hus• •vlmneapolis, Minn. 55426 band is extremely pleased. "We have -€612)929-4658 much more than an apartment," he said. "There's minimal sound trans• mission between apartments or from the street. No two apartments have egress on the same level, thus there is none of the hallway noise usually as• sociated with an apartment." With the first condomium success• fully completed in the Twin Cities, the way should now be open. Titles are no problems; the Minnesota Bar has not recommended any changes in the condominium law. Both builders and lenders can now look at this promising new development with much more favor as a way of giving buyers the best of all possible worlds — the best in home ownership plus the best of apartment living. NORTHWEST ARCHITECT MOLIN - 75 YEARS OF PRECAST Molin Concrete Products Com• pany, a family organization which is now in the third genera• tion, has begun operations in a new plant in Lino Lakes, Minn. The company was started before the turn of the century, in 1897, by John G. Molin, making con• crete block and sidewalk tile by hand. The business was con• .'Molin Concrete Products' New Plant tinued by his five sons and now is operated by five cousins. In 1951 the company pur• chased the Flexicore franchise and became the first producer of hollow core plank in Minnesota. Soon after this the precast prod• ucts division was started. Molin has now grown into one of the leading producers of exposed aggregate and cast stone in the Upper Midwest area. In November of 1970 the com• pany's plant site was purchased by the St. Paul Housing and Redevelopment Authority and will be converted back to resi• dential housing under the U.S. government sponsored Better Neighborhood program. A new automated plant was built on a 55-acre site at Hwy. 35W and Hwy. 49 in Lino Lakes, Minn. This new facility will produce 6", 8" and 10" Flexicore floor and roof plank in" 24" widths. The capacity of this new plant will be more than 3,000,000 square feet of Flexicore per year. RUSTIC URRAZZO ATTHi
TILED BEDROOMS? Eugene F. Grazzini of Grazzini RAOISSON SOUTH Brothers & Company was elected 1972 President of the Ce• Contractors for Floors—Walls—Roof Decks ramic Tile Contractors' Associa• tion of America, Inc., at its 63rd National Convention held in New York City. Mr. Grazzini, is also active in the Associated General Con• ros. tractors of Minnesota and the Regional Congress of Construc• & COMPANY tion Employers. He foresees increased use of ceramic tile in residential and in• 620 SIXTEENTH AVENUE SOUTH stitutional construction as de• •\ MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55404 signers and builders find new applications — would you be• • TELEPHONE (812) 336-7735 lieve tiled bedrooms — for this centuries' old product.
JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1972 39 ENGELSTAD RECEIVES Products Company, Wells, Minn., who through many years PCI MEDALLION AWARD was familiar with the contribu• In appreciation for his "out• tions to work in this field by Mr. standing contributions to the in• Engelstad. In the picture here dustry," the Prestressed Con• Mr. Nesius (left) presents the crete Institute recently honored medallion and citation to Mr. En• Robert D. Engelstad with its PCI gelstad as a representative of the Medallion Award. PCI, with an exposed aggregate Mr. Engelstad, a principal in precast concrete corridor wall of the Moorhead, Minn., firm of the new Waseca High School as Foss, Engelstad, Foss, Archi• the appropriate background. tects-Engineers, was nominated The citation stated: for the award by Leo A. Nesius, "The Prestressed Concrete In president of Wells Concrete stiiute presents the PCI Me- dallion Award to Robert D. En• gelstad in appreciation for his outstanding contribution to the industry. Mr. Engelstad has dem• onstrated the highest degree of professional leadership in devel• oping sound concepts in both the design and application of pre• stressed concrete. Through the • • • years he has inspired and en• Les couraged producers of our mate• rial to make bold and substantial the All New advances in production to accom• modate more sophisticated appli• lighted cations of prestressed concrete. Several of his projects have re• ceived national recognition, re• Liquid Chalk flecting credit to our industry. "PCI is pleased to recognize Writing System his accomplishments and leader• ship with the PCI Medallion The people with the first name in chalk- Award." l)oanls and related products are bringing you the latest word in writing surfaces.
It's called LCS. The graphically textured writing surface that takes a positive image from a felt-tip LCS marker, in any of three basic colors — red, blue or black. The image goes on wet, dries instanta• neously, comes off with one rub from a LCS is the first practically dustless vertical writing surface that AGE-OLD PRODUCT chalkboard eraser. A paral)oIic dome flu• eliminates chalk accumulation and its objectional features. Jet-age travelers using the orescent light virtually eliminates glare. new $80 million International LCS MARKERS — MOVABLE AND PORTABLE Anyone can write clear and Airport in Tampa, Fla., are bold with LCS markers. walking on, being guided by, and LCS writing system is suitable for perma• Available in 3 basic colors nent wall use or movable equipment. — blue, red and black. enjoying the beauty of a building Available in standard modular adjustable LCS markers will write product that dates back to the system in IxJth 4' anrl 8' sizes. The LCS ivell over a half mile system teamed with Claridgo room divid• beginnings of civilization. Yet, a ers offer unlimited possibilities for S|)ecial teaching enclosures. modern-day systems method was used to fabricate the product into A fluorescent lighting 18-ft. panels for the walls of the t 1 LIGHT sy^'^"! designed to reduce structure. glare and reflection with FIXTURE maximum focal attention The product is the ageless clay 1 on the LCS positive-image 1 brick which hasn't changed f-i r writing surface. much from the time the first bricklayers, the Sumerians, used it in the Tigris and Euphrates GLENMAR HUTCHINSON COMPANY Valley in what is now Iraq. Yet, 8850 Wenl^vorlJi Avenue. South because of its aesthetic value and Minneapolis. Minnesota 55420 economy, it is highly adaptable to modern methods, according to the International Masonry Insti• tute. Project engineer, Charles Richman, of the J. E. Greiner
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JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1972 41 Co., consulting engineers of positions." ROMANY-SPARTAN Tampa and Baltimore, said the By artistically using bricks of CATALOG OFFERS panel method was used by the various manufacturers, colors, FULL RANGE mason contractor and bricklay• and textures, for the paving and Architects, builders, decora• ers because the design called for walls, the architects color-coded tors, designers and others "will masonry walls at 30 degree areas to help guide people in and enjoy browsing through the 1972 angles. "They were sloped," he out of the structure. Romany-Spartan full-line cata• said, "for aesthetic reasons and In the opinion of Earl Lawton, log — a veritable shopping to provide space for air returns Executive Director of the West center for ceramic tile," the com• and grills. It was, therefore, Coast of Florida Chapter of the pany reported. much simpler and more econom• Mason Contractors Association The 16-page catalog published ical," Richman pointed out, "to of America, the building is an by United States Ceramic Tile have the bricks laid nearby in outstanding example of mason- Company, in full-color, illus• straight, ordinary wall panels, ry's beauty, structural trates more than 160 colors and and then installed in their splay soundness, and durability. nearly 100 patterns and color combinations of ceramic floor and wall tile for residential, com• mercial and institutional use. The 1972 book features Cloud Twin City Tile & Marble Co. Swirl, a brand new addition to the Romany-Spartan line. Cloud Swirl tile features a wispy, bil• lowing design on a white matte glazed background. The subdued matte glaze makes it ideal for ei• ther residential or commercial use. Applications for the tile include bathrooms, kitchen backsplash areas and other kitchen wall areas, entryways, or as an accent piece amid comple• mentary tiles. Six soft colors are offered, including olive, blue, an• tique white, yellow, gold and pink. The catalog is packed with potentials for a wide range of ceramic tile tastes and require• ments, and all products are categorized for quick and easy reference, the company said.
MARQUETTE NATIONAL BANK Romany-Spartan is repre• STONEHENGE INSTALLATION sented in this area by the Rollin FACIA—COLUMNS—INFORMATION DESK Child Company. Free copies of BAKER & ASSOCIATES the catalog are available by writ• ing to the United States Ceramic Tile Co., 1375 Raff Road, S. W., Canton, Ohio 44710. STONEHENGE ARCHITECTURAL PANELS COMPLIMENTARY LINE TO COLORLITH
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NORTHWEST ARCHITECT 42 pletely finished in hand-rubbed tones and shipped ready-to-hang in a special protec• tive package. NEW All carvings are copyrighted and the exclusive property of Entol Industries. Inc.. PRODUCTS 6300 N.W. 74 Ave., Miami, Fla. 33166. Addi• tional information can be obtained by writ• ing to the company. Mac Arthur Co. Purchases Van Packer LOHV-VOLTJIGE UGHTING FOR VARIED EFFECTS, SAFETY DeVAC Introduces J. G. Ordway. Jr.. president of Mac Venetian Blind Window Arthur Co.. has announced the purchase pool* [ 1 FjBFrfeTKV hfhtinf ' " P ( l#ina;' niuauaslion dnlfn The latest in windows for new construc• of the Van Packer Products Division of R A luidi to 8>cluTc BcltKlloa The Flintkote Co. Van Packer is a manu• tion or replacement is a Venetian blind facturer of prefabricated insulated chim• window from DeVAC. Inc., Minneapolis- ney sections. Sales are made through based manufacturer of aluminum window distributors located throughout the United systems and related equipment. The window, featuring DeVAC's exclu• States. Ka. El«ctncalD«NntaUbiar)< Mac Arthur Co. had been a distributor sive Thermo-Barrier performance, is avail• of Van Packer products for many years able in vertical and horizontal sliding at its locations in Milwaukee. Denver, models. In addition to lighting control, the and San Francisco, as well as locally in Low-voltage lighting window incorporates all other benefits of the Twin Cities. Low-voltage lighting for interiors, land• split-ftame. dual-glazed design as well, Van Packer is an acid resistant refrac• scape lighting, emergency systems and including indirect ventilation, full egress, tory lined stack, listed by Underwriters swimming pools is reviewed Monograph 19 significant sound attenuation and low air Laboratories, which provide high draft, of the Electrical Design Library published infiltration. low installation cost and long life. Manu• by the National Electrical Contractors As• The one-inch Venetian blind is internally factured in sizes from 10-inch to 60-inch, sociation. mounted and remotely operated, and re• they are used on incinerators, boilers and "The unique aspect of low-voltage lamps movable for cleaning. for refuse chutes, breechings. exhausts and is their small, compact filament." the mono• For more information and test data on a multitude of specialty applications. graph says. "Light beams can be much performance write DeVAC, Inc., 10130 more precisely controlled, offering consid• Highway 55, Minneapolis, Minn. 55441. erable advantages in accent and decorative lighting. Some of these lamps are small in size, allowing 'miniaturized' fixtures to be utilized. Low-voltage wiring also offers minimum hazard so in many instances, as in garden CONSTRUCTION lighting, low-voltage wires need not be ADHESIVE enclosed by conduit. In the case of swim• ming pools some codes now permit only low-voltage fixtures for underwater lighting." Illustrated guides to indoor and outdoor low-voltage fixtures are included in the publication. r 1 Information about the Electrical Design Library is available from any NECA chapter or NECA, 730 Rhode Island Ave.. N. W.. Washington. D. C. 20036. Construction Adhesives Contech. Incorporated of Minneapolis. One Million Doors Minnesota has made available instructional EX'er/Strait Door Division of Pease Co., brochures on the B. F Goodrich construc• Hamilton. Ohio, recently passed a major tion adhesive.s PL-200 and PL-400. Contech manufacturing milestone with the produc• distributes the products on a national basis. tion of its one millionth steel-clad door. The PL-200 brochure covers the step by "Ever/Strait is the world's leading maker step procedure for bonding to almost every of foam core steel doors and the first com• conceivable building material, including pany to accomplish this manufacturing wood panels, dry wall, underlayments. achievement," the company said. It pro• foam insulation, furring strip, etc. In addi• duces exterior, interior, patio and privacy tion to its versatility, the adhesive has a doors for single family homes and apart• unique ability to "bridge" surface ir• ment entranceways. They are constructed regularities by as much as yet form a with steel outer panels formed around an bond stronger than wood, the company- insulating core of polystyrene foam materi• reported. al. PL-400 is an abbreviation for Plastikon In honor of this manufacturing achieve• 400. the B. F. Goodrich registered trade• ment, Ever/Strait recently staged a surprise mark for its multi-purpose bonding adhe• party for its more than 300 employees. All sive. PL-400 is a "field-proven construction employees, along with Ever/Strait manage• adhesive that has revolutionized construc• ment, autographed the company's millionth tion techniques through its versatile door. bonding applications. "The concept origi• EX'er/Strait doors are constructed with a nally centered around the use of PL-400 to unique thermal break that keeps outside bond floor joists to single layer T&G temperatures from penetrating from one plywood subfloors. PL-400 produces side of the door to the other, it was stronger unitized floor systems, allows the reported A magnetic weather stripping use of longer spans and virtually eliminates much like those found on late model refrig• floor squeaks and nail pops. By using PL- Carved Doors erators also serves as an effective means of 400 adhesive, the underlayment layer is Original wood carvings, formerly avail• blocking out cold air and noise around all eliminated, resulting in substantial cost able only in the most expensive doors, are sides of the door. savings for the customers and contractors. now reproduced with fidelity and dimen• Ever/Strait also offers a patented univer• Contech pointed out. sion in Art-Carved Decorator Doors created sal sill/threshold which permits simple up Contech. Incorporated. 7711 Computer by Entol Industries of Miami. Fla. or down adjustment at any time without Ave.. Minneapolis. Minn.. 55435 will send The doors feature related, but simplified, disturbing door or frame. Each door comes free copies of these publication and the car\Mngs on their interior surfaces. Carved from the factory prehung in its own wood name of the nearest PL-400 distributor on panels of high density urethane are incor• frame. request for Bulletin No. GPC-7-AD-2. (PL- porated into a specially constructed solid The doors are sold through a nationwide 400) or No. IPC-A-70-1 (PL-200). wood door. The assembled door is com• network of distributor/dealers. JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1972 43 Joint Seal CIS Elastalum Expansion Joint Seals, which offer a "totally new. engineered approach" to covering joints and accommo• dating structure movement, have been an• nounced by Construction Specialties. Inc. "CIS Elastalum. a unique polyurethane elastomer, factory-bonded and mechani• cally secured to specially pretreated coiitui- uous aluminun) retainers, provides a mono• lithic sealed joint that is easy to install, economical, moves in all directions with• out loss of effectiveness, is waterproof and dustpruof and is aesthetically attractive in a range of colors." the company announce• ment said. "Tested in dynamic flexure for more than 50.000 cycles, the CIS Elastalum joint seal accommodates 100% movement charac• teristics (±50'. of joint width) without sep• aration or loss of seal. That s 5.000 times the number of cycles at four times the move• ment required by Federal Specification AUTOCLAVED "RIB-FACE" BLOCK TTS-00227E. . . CIS Elastalum has been lab- WOLFE PARK REC'R. CENTER orator.v tested for five years and field tested in actual installations for more than three ARCH: S.C. SMILEY & ASSOC. years." For literature and further information CONTR: HENRY 0. MIKKELSON address Construction Specialties. Inc.. 55 Winans Ave.. Cranford. N.J. 07016. chas. m. FREIDHEIM co. 3601 PARK CENTER BLVD. St. Louis Park. Minn. 55416 Telephone: 927-4611
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Vandal-proof Lights The "Tough-Ones." first series of "vandal-proof lighting fixtures to combine Index to Advertisers optical prismatic control with virtually Alpana Aluminum Products Co 22 Minneapolis-St. Paul Piping Council 4 unbreakable qualities and crisp design, American Artstone Co 34 Minnesota Tile Supply 23 have been introduced by Pcrfeclite. Inc.. American Institute of Steel Molin Concrete Products Co 5 Cleveland. Construction 1.2 Nasby, Chas. S 23 Arrigoni Bros 26 Northwestern Tile Co 22 According to Perfeclite the new incandes• Bituminous Surfacing Co 36 Prestressed Concrete Co. Cover HI cent series of "spec-grade" fixtures is BMD&R, Inc 38 R & O Elevator Co 22 designed to take maximum punishment, yet Shiely Co., J. L Cover II Century Fence Co 35 provide optimum lighting performance in Chem Turf, Inc 41 Soil Engineering Services 22 Child, Rollin B 23 Spancrete Midwest V-8 locations where ordinary fixtures may be Conpro, Inc 34 Staples Co., H. W 41 damaged or demolished. These include such Dale Tile Co 34 Stewart Lumber Co 37 facilities as schools, colleges, military bases, Stremel Bros 22 Devoe Co 34 public housing, recreational areas, trans• Drake Marble Co 41 Technical Repro 22 Fogelberg. Carl 34 Twin City Brick Co 26 portation terminals etc. For areas where Friedheim Co 44 Twin City Hardwood Co 26 relamping is difficult, an optional "lamp- Glenmar-Hutchinson Co. 40 Twin City Testing & Engineering 26 life extending" diode is available. Tamper- Gohlke, George ^ Twin City Tile & Marble Co 42 proof fasteners also are available. Grazzini Bros. Co 39 Vincent Brass & Aluminum Co 6 Hall Co.. W. L 34 Wells Prestressed Concrete Photometric data and prices are available Hebron Brick Co 6 from Perfeclite. Inc.. 1407 E. 40th St.. Cleve• Mankato Stone Co ^ Products Back Cover Minneapolis Blue Printing 23 Zenith Concrete Products Co 41 land. Ohio 44103. NORTHWEST ARCHITECT 44 ECONOMY
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Economy was important in constructing the Valley Office Park II building in Suburban Bloomington, Minnesota. That's why Prestressed Concrete was specified for this 78,000 square ft. (four story) proj• ect. Construction had to be both fast and simple. The "Systems" approacli ac• complished this with pre• cast prestressed concrete PROJECT: Valley Office Park II, 10800 South Lyndale, Minneapolis, load bearing wall panels, Minnesota 55420 columns, beams and floor OWNER: Investment Dynamics Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota slabs; minimizing on-site ARCHITECT AND ENGINEERS: Grover-Dimond Associates, Inc., labor costs. All of the pre• St. Paul, Minnesota stressed materials were CONTRACTOR: Concord Development Corp., Minneapolis, Minn. fabricated off the job site, Remember, when building economy is vital, specify independent of high priced on-site cost factors, and PRESTRESSED delivered to the construc• tion site as needed for erec• Four story, 48 foot high wall panels being assem• tion by Prestressed Con• bled. Total of 83 panels comprising 105,000 sq. ft. CONCRETE, INC. of wall area were erected quickly and economically. crete's, Inc. own crew. 2B8Z Long Lake Road, Roseville, St. Paul, Minnesota SS113 (612) 633-417S LIBRARY BUILDING DR. MARTIN LUTHER COLLEGE NEW ULM, MINNESOTA
ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS: Toltz, Kin^. Dinall, Andcrsoti & Associates, Inc. — St. Paul. Minnesota GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Hcyniann Construction Company — New Ulin. Minnesota
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This attractive and functional library is the latest addition 50-foot spans provide a relatively column-free space for to the growing campus of Dr. Martin Luther College. maximum flexibilit). Interior framing was completed by Wells Concrete furnished and installed the entire structural 16" X 16" and 20" x 20" precast columns supporting system, including the special haunched load-bearing wall 24" x 30" inverted tee beams. panels. Prestressed concrete construction has offered the versatility The 57 window panels were cast in a custom form. (Note in design and speedy erection demanded by today's archi• the unusual head and sill detail.) Intermediate channel- tects. Wells Concrete is proud to have met the challenge shaped wall panels were formed with a matching 10-inch offered by this design. stem projection.
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