This tour has 29 homes that cover a wide variety of architectural styles, designed for each client. You will see simple to avant-garde and modest to generous budgets; a cross-section of lifestyles from lakeside to city loft to farmhouses; and functional design decisions in material and citing meant to make the most of materials and land.
After a quick tour online of these homes, you can access the tour program guide and map and plan your own route to tour the homes.
The homes are listed from West to East and numbered accordingly on the map.
13. 4007 Beard Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minnesota
SALA Architects, Inc.
Eric Odor, AIA,
with Courtney Kruntorad
Builder: McNulty Construction Company
This home represents a total transformation
of an inner city rambler
into a two-story contemporary play
on a traditional Prairie Style urban home.
The project involves a partial remodel of
the first floor and a 1,000-square-foot
second-story addition, going up, not out.
The resultant transformation blends seamlessly
into the existing fabric, referencing
the detail and mass of the neighborhood
while maintaining the small footprint with
expanses of green space—important to the
vitality of the city and its chain of lakes.