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| Minneapolis, Minnesota
58,000
MacPhail Center for Music
James Dayton Design
M.A. Mortenson
| | Originally founded as the MacPhail School of Violin in 1907, the new $14.5 million MacPhail Center for Music will celebrate its centennial in a new facility located in Minneapolis’s Mill District alongside the new Guthrie Theater. The new 58,000 square foot music center will have room for 56 music studios, 9 classrooms, and a 2,850 square foot grand performance hall. The structural system for this state-of-the-art facility is cast-in-place concrete with post-tensioned floors and roof, and glass, metal, and brick exterior. |
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| Minneapolis, Minnesota
117,000
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Michael Graves & Associates, Design Architect; RSP Architects, Architect of Record
JE Dunn
| | MBJ’s participation in this project continues a long-time working relationship with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. As part of the MIA’s strategic plan to display a greater portion of its growing art collection, the $50 million expansion increases gallery space by forty percent. Set on a full basement, the three-story addition accommodates exhibition, library, study, and classroom spaces, as well as back-of-the-house and loading docks. The main structural system is wide-module pan-and-joist cast-in-place concrete with post-tensioned girders. |
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| Minneapolis, MN
45,000
Children's Theatre Company
Michael Graves & Associates, Design Architect; RSP Architects, Architect of Record
JE Dunn
| | The Children’s Theatre expansion adds 45,000 square feet to a significantly restricted site in the form of a second, smaller theater, an education center with classrooms, and expanded prop shops and storage. A unique “box within a box” approach to the new theater was used to isolate noise and vibrations that are generated from adjacent spaces, such as the dance studio above the theater and The McGuire Education Center below. To accommodate a removable grid system of rigging and lighting that spans the width of the theater, Vierendeel trusses were employed instead of more conventional, diagonally-membered trusses. Auger cast pilings were used to address potential differential soil settlement issues. |
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| Minneapolis, MN
23,700
Raymond E. Johnson
Julie Snow Architects
JE Dunn
| | Renovation of the abandoned Mayflower Congregational Church in south Minneapolis involved the transformation of the Spanish Colonial Revival style church into a museum dedicated to the exhibition of 20th-century Russian art and artifacts. Structurally, the existing building stands on conventional footings; the timber roof trusses are supported by masonry walls. A major feature of the renovation was the addition of a structural steel mezzanine suspended by steel rods, which eliminated columns that would have obstructed views of the art. The suspended system attaches to the retrofit beams installed adjacent to each roof truss. A new steel and masonry elevator tower and new stairs were also part of the remodeling, as well as extensive remodeling of the façade and basement. | > 2006 Minneapolis Preservation Award
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| Minneapolis, MN
44,000
University of Minnesota
Frank O. Gehry, Design Architect; Meyer, Scherer and Rockcastle, Ltd., Architect of Record
Sheehy Construction
| | The Weisman Art Museum is a four-story structure housing about 11,000 square feet of gallery space, a 120-seat auditorium, a museum store, storage areas, carpentry and technical areas, office and meeting/class rooms, and hospitality spaces. The gallery has eighty feet of clear span. Below the gallery spaces, a parking ramp accommodates 300 vehicles. Construction materials include structural steel and cast-in-place, post-tensioned and reinforced concrete. The facility is supported by drilled concrete piers in bedrock. | > 1992 Progressive Architecture Award
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| Duluth, MN
25,300
University of Minnesota - Duluth
Cesar Pelli, Design Architect; Stanius Johnson Architects, Architect of Record
Oscar J. Boldt Construction
| | The 350-seat music performance hall was designed to provide an intimate environment for musical performance and listening. Early in the planning stages, MBJ worked with the architects to develop a 3-D digital model of the building’s dome. Through its various iterations, the model helped MBJ determine structural solutions for the tight site, as well as the steep pitch required to achieve optimal acoustics in a space with a footprint of only 10,000 square feet. Beneath the resulting dome’s copper-cladding and 114 foot ribbon of skylight are 120 tons of steel framing holding it up. | > 2004 NCSEA Excellence in Structural Engineering Award
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| Minnetonka, MN
32,000
Minnetonka Center For the Arts
James Dayton Design, Ltd.
M.A. Mortenson
| | Seven art studios comprise the major portion of the first floor of this new art center. Also on the first floor is a 3,000 square foot exhibition gallery lit by large, skewed skylights, a cafeteria, and a lecture room. The overall structure is steel, which is exposed on the ceiling throughout most of building. Floors on the ground level are poured concrete. Administrative offices and a library are housed on the second floor. | > 2005 AIA Minnesota Honor Award
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| Minneapolis, MN
155,000
University of Minnesota
Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle, Ltd.
Adolfson & Peterson
| Meeting the university’s needs and providing a suitable structural design for this architecturally complex project required skillful communication among team members, yet the project was completed two months ahead of schedule and under the original budget.
The primary floor system consists of reinforced concrete, using a long span, wide-module pan and joist system, which allows for typical bay sizes of 40’ x 30’. Secondary materials include structural steel, light gage, and multiple masonry applications. Major components of the buildings include two-story atrium spaces for art display, acutely angled and radiused exterior facades, radial skyway trusses, a large open foundry with cranes, over 30 guyed stacks, an underground tunnel system joining the buildings to the rest of the campus, and architecturally complex canopies.
The unique delivery system called for the separation of above and below grade work to be provided by two different general contractors. | > 2005 Honor Award For Outstanding Usage of Poured-in-Place Concrete, Minnesota Concrete & Masonry Contractors Association
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