THE NORTH DAKOTA ARCHITECT OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF AIA NORTH DAKOTA n VOLUMEVOLUME 1010 •• 20162016 Park Nicollet STRUTHERS PARKINSON’S CENTER Golden Valley, Minnesota Enhancing the Patient & Family Experience Designing innovative healthcare environments that provide comprehensive services, training, education and research for both patients and care partners. www.eapc.net CONTENTS From the Desk of Bonnie Staiger ................................2 Guest Message from Russ Hanson .............................3 2016 Executive Committee ...........................................4 NDSU Scholarships .......................................................5 Awards Juror ...................................................................6 2015 Honor Award .......................................................10 2015 Merit Awards ........................................................12 2015 Merit Awards ....................................................... 14 2015 Merit Awards ....................................................... 16 2015 Merit Awards ....................................................... 18 2015 Submissions ........................................................22 Residential Section ..................................................... 43 2015 Honor Award/Residential ............................... 44 2015 Merit Award/Residential ................................. 46 2015 Submissions/Residential ................................ 48 Outstanding Achievement Award .............................51 Test of Time ...................................................................52 Intern of the Year .........................................................53 Early Career Architect ............................................... 54 Thank you to our contributing advertisers! Commitment to Architecture Award .......................55 EAPC ......................................................................................................IFC Shultz + Associates, Ltd .......................................................................57 The AGC of North Dakota ......................................................................5 Prairie Engineering, P.C. .......................................................................65 2015 Firm Profiles .......................................................58 Northern Technologies, Inc. .................................................................21 The RLE Group .......................................................................................73 Minnkota Windows ................................................................................21 Zerr & Berg Architects ...........................................................................74 2015 Members ............................................................. 66 wild|crg ................................................................................................... 38 YHR Partners ...........................................................................................77 JLG ...................................................................................................39-42 AIA Contract Documents..................................................................... 78 2015 Allied Members...................................................75 Hepper Olson Architects .....................................................................49 AE2S .......................................................................................................IBC Coldspring ...............................................................................................50 LJA ........................................................................................................OBC Foss Architecture & Interiors .............................................................56 FEATURES The Future of North Dakota Windows and Doors ZERR BERG ARCHITECTS Brad Bushaw General Manager, Minnkota Windows National Register of Historic Places .......................... Our North Dakota climate represents a tough challenge for any building component, but 8 especially for windows and doors! Warm summers, frigid winters, and blustery winds demand North Dakota Properties listed in the energy efficiencies beyond those of most of the US. And these efficiencies will be expected to National Register of Historic Places in 2015 improve substantially over the next fifteen years. The M.E. Beebe Historic District in by Bobbi Hepper, Hepper Olson Architects & Lorna Meidinger, by Bobbi Hepper Olson, Hepper Olson Architects, The U.S. Department of Energy calculated residential and commercial buildings consume over Fargo consists of six houses owned, designed, or and Lorna Meidinger, State Historical Society remodeled by Milton E. Beebe. Beebe started his 40% of our nation’s primary energy usage. Much of that energy is used for cooking, refrigeration, practice in Buffalo, New York but moved to Fargo, electronics, etc., but heating, cooling and lighting account for over 20% of the total. This 20% The National Register of Historic Places is the nation’s list of properties considered worthy of preservation. North Dakota in 1898. The district is significant equals over 19.6 QUADRILLION (that’s 15 zeros!) Btu’s of energy! The documentation process for listing demonstrates that the resource is significant in some aspect of the for its architecture as well as for its association State Historical Society nation’s history. Contrary to some misconceptions about the National Register program, listing in it does with Beebe as he lived and worked from buildings The DOE has established goals to reduce overall energy use over 23% by 2030 from improvements not prevent owners from altering their property, restricting the use or sale of the property, or establish times in the district. The district acknowledges the in windows and doors alone! This will require new technologies in all components of our requiring that the property must be open to the public. Entry into the National Register of Historic Places importance of late- 19th century architect Milton does give a property prestige, provides protection from federally-assisted projects, and provides eligibility Earl Beebe (1840-1922) to the architectural windows and doors. for certain preservation financial incentives. heritage of Fargo and many other communities th LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL The NDSHPRB board members are: The North Dakota State Historical Preservation Review Board (NDSHPRB) approved three properties, one M.E. Beebe Historic District by in North Dakota and Minnesota during a dozen- 2016 is the 50 anniversary of the However, several innovative technologies are already emerging to achieve these goals. Some were West Fargo, North Dakota Lorna Meidinger, Architectural historic district and a one historical context submittal. Ronald H.L.M. Ramsay year career in the region. National Historic Preservation Act pioneered in North America, while others were translated from European designs, where higher Historian & Executive Secretary for that created the National Register energy costs and tighter government regulations have demanded creative approaches to achieve SHPO since 2008 St. Olaf Lutheran Church in Devils The Ashley Jewish along with other programs. The energy-use targets for decades. Lake was designed by Joseph A. Shannon Homesteaders Cemetery North Dakota State Historical Bobbi Hepper Olson, Historical in the Late Gothic Style and built in 1930. near Ashley is the only Society is currently planning Some of these concepts are already well accepted in the U.S., such as special coatings on glass Architect, Buxton, ND remaining site associated with some exhibits and events around Shannon began practicing in Devils Lake surfaces, using gases like argon or krypton inside insulated glass, aluminum frames with special Melinda McCarthy, Architectural in 1906 and was one of the first architects the McIntosh County Jewish the state for next year. Logos for The Future of North Dakota Windows & Doors ... Historian, Bismarck, ND farming community, the largest the celebration can be used for “breaks” to conduct less heat or cold, and the use of PVC and fiberglass window frames. But 20 licensed to practice architecture in North Jewish agricultural settlement free and are available at: http:// some are still relatively unknown. Barry Williams, Historic Dakota after the licensing law passed in in North Dakota. The cemetery preservation50.org/use-the-logos/ Archaeologist, Bismarck, ND 1917. Shannon was prominent in the Devils Lake area, very involved in the profession is located on land that was Considering the full Life Cycle Analysis provides a new perspective when one considers frame Kathy Wilner, Citizen Member, as president of the North Dakota State originally patented to Russian materials such as PVC and fiberglass from a new perspective. Though aluminum has long been by Brad Bushaw, General Manager, Minnkota Windows Bowdon, ND Board of Architecture, and St. Olaf Jewish immigrant Sarah commonly used for window frames, offering well-studied and thoroughly documented strength Schlasinger (nee Bendersky) in Kimberlee Madsen, Citizen Member, Lutheran Church is a very different design St. Olaf Lutheran Church by James D. Goulding. and rigidity, making an aluminum frame more energy efficient requires adding non-conductive Williston, ND from his main body of work. The church is 1906 and the burials date from Ashley Jewish Homesteaders Cemetery by Rebecca E. Bender material to the aluminum. Adding this material increases