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The stories behind local architecture and interior design
The Right PLACE
Minneapolis-based design firm, PLACE, on a mission to create sustainable, community-focused artist housing
Design: Turning Right to Go Left
How a piece of highway engineering became an iconic emblem of suburbia
A Crucial Corridor
Officials look to turn Hennepin Avenue into an inviting corridor that reflects the artists who call it home
Design: Local Architecture Firm Makes Good
Award-winning—and modest—firm Vincent James Associates Architects puts a refined twist on projects near and far
Style Scout: Food (and Design) for the Soul
The best-designed restaurants aren’t always the prettiest
Design: Luxury on the Lake
An over-the-top Minneapolis mansion’s short and sweet existence.
Design: Urban Renewal
Despite a checkered past, the Ford Center is poised to breathe new life into the North Loop.
Design: The House that Ugly Built
Downtown Minneapolis’s misfit stadium has new bells and whistles, but does it make any difference?
Design: Vice and Virtue
One St. Paul corner continues its historical morality play.
Design: Road to Ruin
Fragments of the past still stand in unexpected corners of the cities.
CityDeskStudio
Design: Outside the Usual Box
One family proves there’s more to residential architecture than little pink houses.
Mansard Roof in Minneapolis
Design: Lord of the Mansard
The ’70s swung with long, flowing roofs.