Apogee Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq:APOG ) today announced that Russell Huffer, chairman and chief executive officer, will host the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Apogee Enterprises, Inc. on Wednesday, June 25 at 9 a.m. Central Time (10 a.m. Eastern Time). The meeting will be held at the Apogee Enterprises, Inc. corporate office, 7900 Xerxes Avenue South, [...]
Finished Basement Company, with offices in Denver, Colorado, and Eagan, Minnesota, was recently recognized by two national remodeling publications for excellence in basement design.
The company won two gold awards in basement design from the “Best of the Best” design awards sponsored by Professional Remodeler Magazine. Now in its sixth year, the Best of the Best [...]
American homes are getting bigger — at least when measured by the number of bedrooms they have — according to a new analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. In 2005, one in five occupied homes (20 percent) had four or more bedrooms, compared to 17.7 percent in 2000.
In 2005, Utah [...]
A construction project to improve the condition and safety of Highway 32 from St. Hilaire to Thief River Falls is scheduled to get under way on May 1, according to Shawn Groven of the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
A construction project to improve the condition and safety of Highway 32 from St. [...]
OMAHA, Neb. — Hundreds of millions of tons of coal are hauled from northeast Wyoming each year as fast as the nation’s two largest railroads can carry it away.
But Union Pacific and BNSF haven’t been quick enough to satisfy utilities in the last few years, and America’s appetite for coal is expected only to grow.
That’s [...]
The Minnesota Twins won’t unveil the design for the new downtown ballpark until February, but the debate about whether it should look modern or retro has already begun.
The ballpark is envisioned to combine native Minnesota limestone, large expanses of glass, exposed structural steel and ironwork.
“The design will be about our time,” said Bruce Miller, the [...]
Any good technician can build a functionally perfect house. But a serious architect will do more, infusing space with beauty, soul and wisdom, creating places that interact with time and the seasons and honor their surroundings.
The late Marcel Breuer was such an architect and the man who envisioned the vistas, the nooks, the textures and [...]
David Salmela’s buildings, the ones located in woods, are designed to interact with the trees surrounding them.
Trees, by the way, that are not cut down unless absolutely necessary.
“The key is to fit the building into the site so that you aren’t altering the natural environment,†Salmela said in an interview prior to a gallery [...]
“In the five years our office has been here, we’ve seen huge changes,” says E.B. Min, principal of Min | Day, of the Dogpatch neighborhood in San Francisco. Dogpatch sits on the flats east of Potrero Hill. For many people, the name evokes industry, blue-collar bars and workers’ cottages rather than architectural inspiration. But Min [...]
A sheltered site. When possible, design the garden to feel private and protected. A descent into the garden can help promote a sense of enclosure, suggested landscape architect Marjorie Pitz of Martin & Pitz Associates, while shrubs or trees can be used to create a privacy shield.
An entrance. An identifiable garden entry point, marked by [...]
“Art Leads to Innovation” inspired 30 high school students from across the U.S. to create their own vision of what innovation means in the 2006 Poster Design Scholarship Competition, sponsored by The Art Institutes and Americans for the Arts. Budding artists with an interest in graphic design created original poster artwork reflecting the theme “Art [...]