June 2013 – Inver Grove Heights, Minn. – With the sun finally shining and gardening season having arrived at long last, Inver Grove Heights-based Gertens Greenhouses & Garden Center is busy and bustling. The highly regarded garden center known for its trademark red roof and awning is a longtime client and just-down-the-street neighbor of Krech, O’Brien, Mueller & Associates. [Read more…] about Profile of Partnership: Gertens
A More Balanced Look at Retail Design
Renowned architect Richard Rogers, known for his modernist and functionalist designs, has cynically said that the primary aesthetic principle of our times is “form follows profit.” And, sadly, in many cases this is true. Designing spaces for commercial and retail clients has too often become only about boosting sales and moving product. [Read more…] about A More Balanced Look at Retail Design
New Space for SICK, Inc.
February 2013 – Savage, Minn. – When SICK, Inc. a leading manufacturer of factory and process automation technology needed additional space, their construction partners (PCL Construction) recommended the architects and interior designers at Krech, O’Brien, Mueller and Associates to assist in the process. [Read more…] about New Space for SICK, Inc.
NBA Sculpture is a Slam Dunk
February 2013 – Houston, Texas – Every year since 1996 basketball fans have flocked to the city of the NBA All-Star Game for the NBA All-Star Jam Session. Created, designed and built by Minneapolis-based VEE Corporation, the event is a series of activities created especially for NBA fans. When VEE recently fashioned an additional sculpture for the event, they called on the engineers at Krech, O’Brien, Mueller and Associates, Inc. to certify that it was structurally sound. [Read more…] about NBA Sculpture is a Slam Dunk
Road Trip!
It’s barely past the middle of winter, and my thoughts can’t help turning to warmer weather and to plans I’m making to take a summer road trip with friends. I haven’t gone on a classic road trip before, and I can’t wait. And where would a young engineer and his buddies head on such a trip? Kings Island! [Read more…] about Road Trip!
An Old-Timer in Fall
It’s autumn – some might say it’s closer to winter – and we’ve just put the finishing touches on our latest KOMAink newsletter. It’s our annual Halloween-themed issue, and this year we focus on “dressing up” some of the spaces we’ve been hired to design. (Get it? Dressing up? Like you’d dress up for Halloween? Clever, huh?) [Read more…] about An Old-Timer in Fall
