In January of this year, a group of citizens were appointed by Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken to create a study group which has meet monthly to evaluate the current conditions and future potential of the Denny Sanford Premier Center Campus. This group, which includes two AIA South Dakota architects, Jared Nesje from TSP and …
Series: Architectural Working Conditions
Architects don’t spend all their time in the office; construction site visits are a big part of ensuring that projects are progressing as planned and open up a great opportunity for direct communication with the construction team and the project owner. In this career, each day’s tasks are different, and I’m fortunate to be able …
Series: Architectural Working Conditions
As the first office featured in this series, I thought a good first impression was important. Following are the photos taken shortly after a renovation project a couple years back. I hope the images convey the goals of openness, natural light, collaborative space and a light touch on the historic structure that we aimed for. …
Documenting America’s Architectural Legacy
First created during the New Deal of the 1930s, the heritage documentation programs of the National Park Service have been recording and archiving our national architectural history for over 85 years. The three programs are the Historic American Building Survey (HABS), the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and the Historic American Landscape Survey (HALS). Their …
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The Architect’s Voice
When you think of what an architect does every day, what comes to mind? We draw? We create? We use our extensive math skills to design beautiful buildings, functional buildings, and -with our current volatile market- expensive buildings? My desk has a pile of beautiful pens, a construction calculator, and a computer with the newest …
Happy New Year from Blueprint South Dakota!
2018 was a great year for architecture and design in South Dakota- here are a few links to check out some of the best work that was completed nationally and around the world. Let us know what stands out to you and why! https://www.archdaily.com/907313/the-best-architecture-of-2018 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13833-notable-projects-of-2018?id=13833-notable-projects-of-2018&ajs_uid=3237H0803912E4W&oly_enc_id=3237H0803912E4W&ajs_trait_oebid=3782E0258467B1M Keith ThompsonKeith Thompson, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, is a principal …
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Housing the Next Generation
Understanding the Millennial generation is going to prove exceptionally important to South Dakota as we continue to combat our workforce shortage. Millennials will soon make up a majority of the workforce, and we will need to cater to their wants and needs if we hope to attract and retain them. Unfortunately, in addition to this …
The New Age of Construction
Automation and robotics have changed the way the world operates immensely since their inception. They have typically been used to perform repetitive, menial tasks in order to increase efficiency and accuracy. There is no doubt they have had a monumental impact on many different industries. The construction industries have reaped the benefits of automation when it comes …
Amazon HQ2: A Blessing or a Curse?
Think about the community you live in. What about it do you enjoy the most? How would you describe its brand? How does that brand affect the quality of life for residents, and how does it drive the community’s future? Sioux Falls (and South Dakota in general) is not typically in the conversation of …
Citizen Architect
Architects do more than imagine spaces, buildings and forms. We continually strengthen the communication link between the mind and the hand that draws or clicks to form creations on napkin, paper or computer screen. In more simple terms, my job as an architect is to dream with my clients and then make those dreams a reality. Pretty impressive, for sure, but is that all an architect does? Does an architect …