Kimmy's story was featured on KSTP-5 news, with interviews and footage of our first design meeting. Check back for project updates- construction begins in Spring of 2012!

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The Eco Experience, a partnership between the MN State Fair and the MN Pollution Control Agency is "designed to inspire people to lead more sustainable lives while improving quality of life and environment". This year's theme is "Green Crossing", a street intersection that includes two homes designed by Rehkamp Larson Architects: the "Common Cottage" and the "Tech Tower". Green Crossings also features a passive house designed by architecture students at NDSU and a "Community Corner" featuring alternative transportation ideas and a community garden. You can see more specific information about each of the buildings on the Eco Experience's website by clicking here.

Please stop by and visit us at the Progress Center building at the Fair, which runs from Thursday, August 25th, through Labor Day.

The Watermark Awards, sponsored by Builder and Custom Home Magazines, which honor excellence in kitchen and bath design from across the country, have chosen two of our recent projects as award winners. The Grussing Renovation in St. Louis Park, recognized for its vintage kitchen design, was awarded Best Kitchen in a Remodeled Home Under 2000 square feet. The Victorian Bath, a master bathroom renovation in Minneapolis, was awarded 2010 Bath of the Year and Best Master Bath in a Remodeled Home.

The tour is a great opportunity to talk with architects and homeowners and learn how the process of working with an architect can add value from original design concept all the way through construction and project completion. We will have one home featured on this year's tour- a brand new home in Edina's White Oaks neighborhood.

Please visit the tour's website: www.homesbyarchitects.org for information about tour maps, tour schedule and ticket information.

From across the field, the house strikes a familiar pose – a tall, proud, white farmhouse, like the one just down the road.  Yet this house has combined the latest technology with the simple sustainable ways of living from the past.  Located on 80 acres near Lake City, MN, this new farmhouse, sitting at the transition between prairie farm country and limestone bluffs dropping to the Mississippi, breathes new life into an old farmstead.

The judges appreciated the simplicity of form and materials, state of the art building materials (designed for LEED Certification), and the way that the design combined “a stripped down rural vernacular with a modern sensibility to reveal ‘the essence of a farmhouse’”.

Sponsored by the AIA Minnesota and the Star Tribune, a team of jurors each year select twelve residential projects by Minnesota architects to be featured in the Homes section of the Star Tribune on the first Sunday of each month.