Minneapolis MN Metro Transit & Police Station

This project was completed through the partnership of Stewart-Cooper-Newell Architects and Snow Kreilich Architects. The site is located in the transit oriented industrial district north of Target Field near downtown Minneapolis, the project seeks to address the massing and materiality of its context, while also creating an iconic building to highlight the presence of the police department in this developing neighborhood. The modest use of three primary materials is intended to anchor the police department to its industrial context.

High quality folded anodized aluminum panel cladding system reflects varying degrees of light and shadow across all four facades of the addition. The shifting asymmetrical pattern of floor to ceiling insulated clear glazing maximizes southern exposure, allows penetration of daylight into the office interiors, and provides greater transparency between the police offices and the public realm. The partially exposed lower level police department facilities are clad in precast concrete panels which echo the materiality of the landscape site walls along 6th Avenue.