december 14, 2006
  U+B Architecture Designs Award-Winning Space on a Modest Budget
Creates soft touches and re-branding for Minneapolis advertising firm
When Minneapolis advertising firm Kruskopf Coontz was looking for new office space, Principal Sue Kruskopf wanted the space to convey a softer image than the heavy-timbered, exposed-beam, masculine look of some ad agencies. Located in the Flour Exchange Building in the vibrant riverside area, Kruskopf collaborated with Minneapolis-based U+B Architecture & Design to create a modern, open, simple space that was filled with natural light and infused with soft blues, greens, and pale yellows that give it a leading-edge, yet playful feeling.

HGA Wins SMPS Best of Show Marketing Award
Firm wins over clients and jury with a commitment to history
HGA’s proposal for a new visitors’ center and museum at Minnesota’s Fort Snelling won SMPS’s Best of Show marketing award this summer. The proposal used in-depth historical research to stitch together archival-styled documents that demonstrated the firm’s understanding of the fort’s past and present a compelling vision of its future. It used many photos from the client’s own archives to ground their efforts in the historical narrative of Fort Snelling.

Serving Up a New Kitchen Facility for a Meal Delivery Service
Boston meal delivery organization expands by moving into reused warehouse space
Boston-based Community Servings, a nonprofit meal delivery organization, recently completed its new 13,500-square-foot restaurant-style kitchen facility. Community Servings’ staff and volunteers deliver free meals to ill, homebound persons, domestic-violence shelters, assisted-living complexes, and nursing homes. KlingStubbins, based in Cambridge, Mass., adapted a Boston warehouse for the new $7 million kitchen facility, which allows Community Servings to double its daily home-delivered meals from 1,300 to 2,600 throughout greater Boston.

 

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