Beyond Plants
I have always believed every person can make a difference in the lives we touch. In my work, I pay attention to all the elements of a place and its impact on the people that experience it. I choose to work with more than just the plants, because I believe there is more to creating a successful interior landscape than only the project’s horticultural aspects. Stone, water, light, sound, fragrance, discovery, resting and gathering places are all part of the experience.
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M C C AREN
BEYOND PLANTS
THE INTERIOR LANDSCAPE CREATIONS OF
MCCAREN DESIGNS
CREATING MEMORABLE PLACES AND UNIQUE EXPERIENCES
Edinborough Park - Edina, Minnesota
BEYOND PLANTS THE INTERIORSCAPE CREATIONS
OF
MCCAREN DESIGNS
CREATING MEMORABLE PLACES AND UNIQUE EXPERIENCES MCCAREN DESIGNS, INC. 760 VANDALIA STREET #100 SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA 55114 651.646.4764 FAX 651.646.8393 EMAIL: INFORMATION@MCCAREN.COM WWW.MCCAREN.COM
Mall of America’s Camp Snoopy - Bloomington, Minnesota
CONTENTS 6
INTRODUCTION
8 Z OOS , AQUARIUMS & C ONSERVATORIES
D.C.S MITH
T ENNESSEE A QUARIUM - C HATTANOOGA , TN H OUSTON M USEUM OF N ATURAL S CIENCE - H OUSTON , TX T HE R AINFOREST - C LEVELAND, OH M OODY G ARDENS - G ALVESTON , TX C ONSERVATORY , U NIVERSITY OF W ISCONSIN - MADISON , WI
18 T HEMED & S PECIAL P ROJECTS K NOTT ’ S CAMP S NOOPY - B LOOMINGTON , MN W OODBURY C ENTRAL P ARK - W OODBURY , MN E DINBOROUGH PARK - E DINA , MN M ICHAEL S INGER SCULPTURE - DENVER , CO C ONSERVATORY ON N ICOLETT - M INNEAPOLIS , MN
28 H OTELS & C ASINOS S AM ’ S T OWN A TRIUM - L AS V EGAS , NV D AKOTA C OUNTRY C ASINO - PRIOR L AKE , MN E MBASSY S U ITES- B LOOMINGTON , MN E MBASSY S U ITES - F ORT L AUDERDALE , FL E MBASSY S U ITES- I RVING , TX E MBASSY S U ITES - B URMINGHAM, AL
40 A TRIUMS & O FFICES IDS C RYSTAL C OURT - M INNEAPOLIS , MN ADC T ELECOMMUNICATIONS - E DEN P RAIRIE , MN W EDGEWOOD C OMMERCE C ENTER - M APLE G ROVE , MN C ITY CENTER - M INNEAPOLIS , MN M C C AREN D ESIGNS - S AINT P AUL , MN O THER P ROJECT P HOTOS
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IF YOU HAVE EVER STAYED AT AN EMBASSY SUITES HOTEL, visited a major indoor zoological exhibit, strolled the Mall of America or passed through the IDS Crystal Court you have experienced the work and influence of McRae Anderson and McCaren Designs, Inc. We believe what is expected should be the unexpected. The monotonous uniformity of today’s interior landscapes almost erases their original intent. We choose to find innovative interior landscape solutions for each and every one of our projects. Our designs are passionate, distinctive and unique, giving each project careful consideration and its own identity. That could mean using plant materials in situations they’ve never been used in before or designing custom planters and benches to match the building’s architectural vocabulary. Our goal “to create memorable places and unique experiences” is fashioned to assist clients reach their business objectives. Many clients are reexamining their approach to the people on which their profits rely - their employees, tenants and guests. They have discovered a beautifully landscaped environment illustrates a caring attitude that in turn translates into attracting and retaining employees and tenants and leads to repeat business. We have the ability to turn our clients’ dreams into reality by creating memorable projects, but also assist our client in being the preferred employer, the preferred address and the preferred company with which to do business. With over 28 years of experience, McCaren Designs has a range and depth of expertise and performance few firms can match, starting with our principal designer . In 2001, McRae Anderson, ASLA, CLP, President and Principal Designer, was named as the interior landscapes industry’s most talented designer by Interior Business Magazine. In 2003 he was named to the Interiorscaping Hall of Fame. Our creations set a standard of excellence to which others aspire. We have received over twenty major national awards for interiorscape and landscape design, installation, maintenance and special events. These awards include two coveted Judges Awards from the Associated Landscape Contractors of America.
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OUR KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE enables us to provide imaginative yet enduring design concepts. At the heart of our approach is our knowledge — knowledge based in practical application. We not only create awardwinning designs, we also install and successfully maintain them. To insure a successful project, we address critical infrastructure questions about daylighting and light requirements, irrigation and drainage systems, load capacities and plant specifications. Projects receive detailed plans and presentation documents, as well as construction budgets, specifications and bidding documents. This process insures a project will be installed as designed and within the established budget. Most importantly, our practical knowledge and design capabilities not only enhance the beauty of the project today, they also protect our client’s interior landscaping investment for years to come. McCaren Designs is committed to seeing the possibilities where others see the limits. Narrow thinking often leads one to the same old solutions. We take a bold approach. Very often, we discover a whole new range of possibilities, and that’s where the best solutions lie. Each project receives creative solutions for its most challenging design problems. We trust you will select McCaren Designs, Inc. to create your next project or give new life to an existing project. We invite you to experience the environmental, sociological and psychological benefits of our innovative interior landscapes.
McRae Anderson, ASLA, CLP President
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THE TENNESSEE AQUARIUM in downtown Chattanooga opened in 1992 as the largest aquarium in the world devoted to freshwater fish. Fish and fowl, otters and alligators, live in the 130,000 square foot aquarium gracing the riverfront. The re-created habitats illustrate the working link in a river’s watershed chain of life support. The aquarium takes the visitor on a river’s journey beginning with a Cove Forest, found in the Appalachian Mountains, and ending in a Cypress Swamp, where the river meets the Gulf of Mexico. McCaren Design’s task was to recreate these two diverse habitats within the interior environment.
This project received not only a Grand Award, but because it was so unique, the Judges created an award. McCaren Designs received the first ever Judges Award in the 23rd Annual ALCA Environmental Improvement National Awards program. One juror explained “...[this] project was so unique and visually arresting, it took our breath away. The Tennessee Aquarium interiorscape defines the category of Natural Habitats. It sets a new level of skill.” Another juror remarked, “..this project extends the boundary of what the interiorscape industry is capable of creating.” McCaren Designs’ vision and innovative use of unique plant materials combined with daring construction techniques made this project a reality.
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THE COCKRELL BUTTERFLY CENTER at the Houston Museum of Natural Science is a conservatory developed to exhibit living butterflies. Within the Conservatory, visitors are completely immersed in a Central American setting. Composed of a wet forest, a dry forest and an open meadow, the exhibit celebrates the complexity and economic importance of this region.
Designing and installing an environment conducive to a butterfly’s survival presented many new and challenging opportunities for the designers at McCaren Designs. We needed to specify appropriate food sources for the survival of the nearly 3,000 free-range butterflies. Our designers specified appropriate light levels and specifications for chemical free plant materials to protect the delicate butterflies. We developed an overhead rain system to delicately wash the plants of pests without harming the butterflies, and to provide a pleasing daily event.
Best of all, the delightfully colored, delicately structured, fluttering mechanism of the butterfly captures our summer childhood fantasies and for a moment, the wonder of the world is before us. McCaren Designs received a national Environmental Improvement Grand Award from the Associated Landscape Contractors of America for Design/Build of the Cockrell Butterfly Center’s interior landscape.
THE RAINFOREST AT CLEVELAND’S METROPARK ZOO is home to more than 600 animals representing 118 different species. It showcases 7,000 live flowers, trees and shrubs of 360 different varieties — all native to one of the three major rain forests of the world. The entire facility covers more than two acres, including two levels and a large glass atrium entrance.
Plants literally cover the walls in the atrium. This unique feature is a 200 foot long vertical “greenwall” planting. The plantings develop exhibit depth and hide the building’s structure from the visiting public. Plantings included within the animal enclosures were designed to meet the animal’s specific environmental requirements and to avoid becoming part of their diet.
Exhibits and plantings immerse the visitors in learning through a variety of sensory experiences — from the sound of rushing water to the random digital sound track to the 90 percent humid air laden to the smells of flowering plants or decomposing vegetation. The RainForest at the Metropark Zoo is dedicated to presenting the exquisitely diverse animal and plant life of the tropical rain forests, to interpreting all aspects of these important and rapidly disappearing ecosystems and to generate enthusiasm for their preservation.
McCaren Designs received a national Environmental Improvement Grand Award from the Associated Landscape Contractors of America for Design/Build of this interior landscape.
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MOODY GARDENS TROPICAL HABITAT blends adventure, exploration and discovery with a conventional botanical exhibit. The exhibit consists of a one-acre glazed pyramidal greenhouse containing landscapes that replicate major areas of the worlds tropical regions.
Beautiful botanical specimens and aesthetically pleasing arrangements and plantings are emphasized over the realistic modeling of the ecological process and events. Plantings are divided into three geographical regions: Africa, Asia, and South America. Each of these zones contain several diverse habitats — such as cliffs, caverns, rivers, wetlands and forests — providing a great variety of plant specimens. Plantings within the conservatory are looser and more random than in a conventional botanical garden ... because our goal was to create a realistic impression of the tropics that are by nature wild and exuberant.
The visitors to this exhibit experience a wide diversity of plant and animal life displayed in a dramatic setting. Their experience lasts nearly an hour, exposing them to the vigorous yet fragile and vulnerable tropical rainforests of the world.
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THE D. C. SMITH GREENHOUSE at the University of Wisconsin’s Madison Campus, was completed in the fall of 1996, and has become a landmark on the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences campus. The building’s most dramatic feature is a colonnade of tree-like columns that branch upward, supporting curved wooden beams high above the greenhouse entrance and adjacent to the 1,600-square-foot conservatory.
The greenhouse’s centerpiece is a 1,600-square-foot conservatory facing Linden Drive, with regionally native granite floors and an arched glass ceiling supported by wood beams that follow the curve of the glass. The conservatory serves as a showcase for the discipline called “interiorscaping,” where students learn good management practices for the “indoor gardens” of malls and office buildings.
The facility was one of two new construction projects recognized for Excellence in Architectural Design at the State of Wisconsin Building Commission 1997 Awards Program. Madison Magazine selected the greenhouse for an Award of Excellence for institutional construction in its annual Design of the Times interior design competition in 2005. The conservatory also received a national Environmental Improvement Grand Award from the Landscape Contractors of America for the interior landscape.
McCaren Design’s work also included the design of the granite art floor, the custom tree grates, the custom teak trellising and benchs and the logo design development.
KNOTT'S CAMP SNOOPY AT THE MALL OF AMERICA is one of the largest indoor landscapes in the United States. This woodland garden consists of over 400 specimen trees and 40,000 understory plantings. In addition, the Camp features major water features and water amusements. Knott's Camp Snoopy is host to Mall of America's 43 million annual visitors.
The theme park experience is defined by the master landscape design. McCaren Designs was responsible for the project's interior landscape design and installation, as well as the initial nine years of maintenance of the parks landscape. This landscape expresses a particular concept - a variation on a Minnesota woodland theme. It began with a vision to create a meaningful retreat from ordinary life - a place capturing and encapsulating sights, sounds, ambience and feeling. This park culturally enriches and uplifts the experience of each guest visiting the Mall of America.
Knott's Camp Snoopy has received two national Environmental Improvement Awards from the Associated Landscape Contractors of America. The first Grand Award was for our Interior Design/Build. The second Grand Award was for our Interior Landscape Maintenance.
WOODBURY CENTRAL PARK, WOODBURY, MN is a multi-use indoor park providing a focal point that establishes the City Center area as the heart of Woodbury. Woodbury will never have the conventional sort of downtown that brought people together in the older cities. But the park, which links a new Washington County branch library on one end and the existing YMCA on the other, is designed to bring a cross-section of the community together. With activities for a wide range of age groups - from toddlers to teens to seniors - the park, coupled with the new library, enhances the sense of community in Woodbury. McCaren Design’s work included design and installation of all interior plantings, hardscape and site amenities including bridge and water feature elements. The project was performed under a unique design/build contract with the city. McCaren Designs was involved in all aspects of the project’s design, consulting with the owners and architects from the beginning of the schematic design phase. Woodbury Central Park received a national Environmental Improvement Award from the Proefessional Landcare Network.
EDINBOROUGH LEISURE PARK is a one-acre enclosed public park, owned by the city of Edina, Minnesota. It is part of an unprecedented, mixed use development composed of elderly housing, a day-care center, office space and low-rise, moderate income condominiums. The parks purpose is to mix the incomes and ages by offering passive and active recreational spaces: a swimming pool; basketball court or banquet space; an amphitheatre; an ice rink; a children's play lot; strolling paths and quiet areas for picnics and contemplation.
The park's promenades are lined with trees in grates which keep interaction between people and plants at a constant. The trees canopies are sheltering and the Norfolk Island Pines hint at the native Minnesota Pine. Benches and low rock walls allow for quiet, relaxed conversations and lunch. The success of Edinborough Park is the result of the essential collaboration between owners, architects and designers.
McCaren Designs has been blessed over the years with associations with owners and architects who have vision, for they give scope for imagination, fantasy, emotion and grace in which to reflect our talents. Edinborough Park is the result of such an inspired association.
THE MICHAEL SINGER SCULPTURE at Concourse C is one of three major art pieces in the new Denver International Airport. It represents the artists vision of a ruin underneath the shining new terminal. Plants encroach, covering rock features and conceal the ruins of a former civilization.
We selected a limited palette of plant materials to complement and create the foundation for this sculpture. Within this 5,000 square foot planting, details were not overlooked. To create the illusion of time plant materials encroach upon the stone as if taking back the land. Together with the artist, we blended paving patterns, featured sculptural elements, rockwork and plantings to create the entire sculptural piece. Open spaces in the plantings are as important to the work as densely planted areas. Standing in stark contrast to the architectural detail of the new airport, this sculpture provides a quite respite from the busy terminal
This project received two national Environmental Improvement Awards from the Associated Landscape Contractors of America. The first was a Grand Award for our Interior Design/Build, the second a Judges Award for the best project in the competition.
It was truly a unique experience to work with Michael Singer on this project. Together we created a piece of living art.
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THE CONSERVATORY ON NICOLLET, Minneapolis, MN called for the entire design to be something radically different from the typical urban shopping mall. Something to fit comfortably into an urban setting. Something with retail drama. These prerequisites dictated our early involvement in the project and a very open creative approach to interior landscaping. Reminiscent of a 19th century European setting with its simple, yet elegant ambience, the interior landscape’s character was in keeping with the Conservatory’s name. Although the project does not remain, it was significant as it was the first project of it’s kind to use topiary forms as a dramatic indoor landscape element. The conservatory received a national Environmental Improvement Grand Award from the Landscape Contractors of America.
SAM’S TOWN ATRIUM PARK in Las Vegas provides its guests with the wild west experience including a western landscape; streams, foothills and a mountain peak. This wilderness is only a stone’s throw away from the bustling town and of course, the gaming tables of Sam’s Town.
This super fast-track, Las Vegas project allowed McCaren Designs’ crews just 6 weeks to install 7,500 square foot of plants, including 93 trees and over 4,000 pieces of understory and ground cover material.
Interiorscape magazine’s review of Sam’s Town Atrium stated: “...the beauty of this interiorscape, is that it is truly unique, because unlike other interiorscapes, it combines sight, smell and sound. It creates a totally believable environment. With seamless artistry it blends different design disciplines with a little bit of Disney. The result — an interiorscape that may well set the standard for a whole new generation of interiorscapes.”
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MYSTIC LAKE CASINO'S logo and its symbolism of tribal culture served as inspiration for this interior landscape. Designed to re-create the tribal homeland of the MdewaKanton Sioux and in response to a dream of a tribal representative, this interior landscape is more than just rocks, water and trees. Within this landscape are hidden the symbols of this tribal nation.
The eagle's shadow symbolizes the eagle, the highest of the tribal symbols, representing the spirit of their ancestors. Painted on two faces of the rock outcropping, when the eagle's shadow aligns, all the other symbols are visible from the same point. The trees, another symbol, connect the eagle to the land. Carved into the rocks is a third symbol, the stone-faced profile of an Indian man. A spring fed rivulet creates a small waterfall in the riparian landscape. Water, the source of life, is the fourth symbol of the MdewaKanton community. Resting on a rock you can see the turtle, the symbol of life and knowledge. If you look closely you can see the final symbol, two buffaloes drinking from the stream.
This Garden Court provides a quite respite from the casino's busy action. Guests can quietly dine among the trees, ferns and other flora of this interior landscape.
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EMBASSY SUITES, BLOOMINGTON, MN is one of fourteen properties designed and installed by McCaren Designs over a ten year period. This work represents the largest collection of projects created for a single owner, working for the ownership group at three different times in the concepts development. The concept's founder, even though he tried other designers, consistently returned as a client because of the style and quality McCaren Designs incorporated into his Embassy Suites projects.
Plants are a significant part of the corporate signature in every Embassy Suites Hotel.
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Bloomington Airport project, along with other Embassy Suites projects reviewed in this text, served as the corporate standard for interior landscaping of Embassy Suites' properties. An Embassy Suites executive told Interior Landscape Industry magazine, "Our occupancy rates are 8-10 points higher than the industry average. This is directly related to the environment we create." Interior landscaping is critical to Embassy Suites' current and continued success.
McCaren Designs is proud of our long and continued relationship with the Embassy Suites Hotels.
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SUITES, 17TH STREET
FT. LAUDERDALE, FL is the epitome of the tropical atrium. Created to emulate the great Florida outdoors, this atrium features multiple specimen palms. Its soaring 12-story atrium contains several layers of fauna, each with their own graceful canopy effect.
Our observations of nature guided our design. We see that plants grow in communities, which is one of our secrets to the orchestration of plant materials in the indoor landscape. This attention to nature gives the McCaren Designs atrium a natural look and feel. This naturalistic and detailed design creates the relaxed and pleasant atmosphere of the Embassy Suites Hotel atrium.
When McCaren Designs first began to design the Embassy Suites atriums in our unique fashion, others took note of our original ideas and the beautiful effects they achieved. However, it requires courage to use appropriately sized specimen materials and we believe that no-one ever uses plants in quite the same dramatic way.
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Atrium after fifteen years of growth and development
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EMBASSY SUITES, IRVING, TX was the start of our second career with the Wooley organization. This projects importance was in the dramatic use of specimen plant materials in combination with a significant water feature. The successful blending of these two design elements created a memorable atrium within the hotel chain. The completion of this flagship property for this development group assisted in the creation of landscaping standards for this fledgling hotel group. McCaren Designs supplied drawings and specifications to the franchiser and reviewed the standards established, as a result of their efforts. We are proud of our association with the Embassy Suites Hotel chain.
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ALABAMA was the last atrium hotel designed for Robert E. Wooley, the founder of the all-suite hotel concept. We have enjoyed our long association with his organization because they gave us the freedom to explore our imagination. Consequently, we had permission to design with innovative materials that have now become standard fare in the modern interior landscape. The atriums of the Embassy Suites were the canvas of our early artistic expression and for this we will be forever grateful.
We added large specimen Bamboo to our palette of materials in this Embassy Suites' atrium. Along with the Bamboo's graceful elegance we incorporated our signature Black Olives and Queen Sago Palms. The visitor to any Embassy Suites can readily identify a McCaren Designs' interior landscape by these two plant materials. They are used to create a canopy and a sense of intimacy within the atrium setting.
Sadly, many of our Embassy Suite's designs have suffered from improper care and maintenance by others. In 1977, it was our intent to only design interior landscapes. However, to prove our ideas were viable we began our maintenance business. The Embassy Suites' atriums maintained by our company prove our design concepts thrive when professional maintenance is employed.
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IDS CRYSTAL COURT, Minneapolis, MN The IDS intended by Philip Johnson, the original IDS architect, to be a town center, was built in the early 1970s. For two decades it was just that - a place for the public. Then, in the mid-1990's the Crystal Court was cleared out in entirety. McCaren Designs was very proud to have played a role in the reincarnation of the IDS Crystal Court.
Our firm was chosen to work with HGA Architects, selecting and installing the trees and flowers. McCaren Designs was then selected by RREEF to maintain the Shady Lady Black Olive trees as well as design and maintain a custom, rotational flowering plant program for both the Crystal Court and the adjoining IDS Tower. McCaren Designs received an ALCA Environmental Improvement Award in 1999 for the Crystal Court's interior landscape installation.
ADC TELECOMMUNICATIONS, EDEN PRAIRIE, MN represents a minimalist interior landscape. Challenged by the Architect to create a design that “didn’t look too expensive” we selected this style for our work.
An important objective was to create a highly productive work environment that would enhance the company's ability to attract and retain workers The underlying concept in the design was to "humanize" the environment and make it as comfortable as possible so people would want to spend time in the space
The new ADC Telecommunications
headquarters lets in the light and invites collaboration
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GROVE, MN. Sometimes we find with smaller projects we can take more risks and often they represent some of our more exotic concepts.
Here, rather than filling the
planter with the standard fare of plant materials, we chose to create a whole new style of interiorscaping combining stone work with plants to make a bold statement.
Dramatic contrasts in foliage texture add to the design’s character. The planting scheme is complemented by the use of stone. Small stones give way to walling stones, cut stone to natural stone, all providing symmetry and contrast.
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CENTER, MINNEAPOLIS, MN. Built-
in planters don’t necessarily need to be filled to the brim with plants to make a stunning statement. Here we approached the difficult planting area found under escalators with an artistic planting display that minimizes the need for live plants. Colorful plants serve as accents to the circles within squares created by the use of rectangular pavers and natural field stone. Each rectangular planter is in the form of an abstract design integrating natural stone, cut stone and planting to form a mosaic of color and texture.
McCAREN DESIGNS ATRIUM, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Our own facility is our concept of an office oasis.
Serving as the reception area for our facility the central atrium provides both aesthetic beauty and air purification.
The atrium incorporates the use of interior foliage plants to clean the air. Offices and conference areas function around this open space. The central planting utilizes an Activated Soil Bed Air Filtration System. This system removes harmful indoor air pollutants by scrubbing the air through the planting soils and moving the air over the indoor plant materials. This system is one of the first of its type in the United States. McRae Anderson, CLP, ASLA designed the space based upon the research of Dr. B. C. Wolverton, Ph.D. former NASA scientist. One and a half times per hour the entire office air is scrubbed through the system.
We demonstrate through this project the fact that when customers install interior plants, they are investing in the air-cleaning benefits of plants, in addition to their aesthetic value. This fundamental change in the way plants are viewed is what makes this installation a groundbreaking event. After all until now, indoor plants have generally been used in commercial settings exclusively for their appearance.
We’re not saying that plants are going to solve every existing indoor air pollution problem; but they are animportant component in solving many indoor air pollution problems.
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ McCaren Designs, Inc. delivers award-winning performance. Below is a list of local, regional and national honors for Design, Installation, Maintenance, Natural Habitats and Special Events.
JUDGES & GRAND AWARDS ALCA Environmental Improvement Michael Singer Sculpture
JUDGES & GRAND AWARDS ALCA Environmental Improvement Tennessee Aquarium
GRAND AWARD
1994 Special Award Denver, CO
1992 Special Award Chattanooga, TN
2005
PLANET Environmental Improvement Woodbury Central Park
Design/Build Woodbury, MN
AWARD OF DISTINCTION
2005
PLANET Environmental Improvement Wedgewood Commerce Center
Design/Build Maple Grove, MN
GRAND AWARD
1999
ALCA Environmental Improvement Seagate Technology
MERIT AWARD
Design/Build Shakopee, MN
1999
ALCA Environmental Improvement IDS Center Crystal Court
MERIT AWARD
Installation Minneapolis, MN
1998
MN Society of Landscape Architects Landscape Design The D.C. Smith Greenhouse and Conservatory, University of Wisconsin Madison, WI
BEST PROJECT AWARD Interiorscape Magazine Andersen Windows
1998
ALCA Environmental Improvement Sam’s Town Atrium
1994 Design/Build Las Vegas, NV
GRAND AWARD ALCA Environmental Improvement Cockrell Butterfly Center
1994 Design/Build Houston, TX
GRAND AWARD ALCA Environmental Improvement Dakota Country Casino
1994 Design/Build Prior Lake, MN
GRAND AWARD ALCA Environmental Improvement Knott’s Camp Snoopy
1993 Maintenance Bloomington, MN
GRAND AWARD ALCA Environmental Improvement The Rainforest, Metroparks Zoo
1993 Design/Build Cleveland, OH
AWARD OF DISTINCTION ALCA Environmental Improvement Sister Generose Gervaise Building
1993 Design/Build Rochester, MN
GRAND AWARD ALCA Environmental Improvement Knott’s Camp Snoopy
1992 Design/Build Bloomington, MN
GRAND AWARD ALCA Environmental Improvement Conservatory on Nicollet
1989 Design/Build Minneapolis, MN
Bay Port, MN
GRAND AWARD
1997
ALCA Environmental Improvement Design/Build The D.C. Smith Greenhouse and Conservatory, University of Wisconsin Madison, WI
AWARD OF DISTINCTION
1997
ALCA Environmental Improvement Special Event Norwest’s Shed A Little Light National Diversity Campaign
AWARD OF DISTINCTION ALCA Environmental Improvement Centennial Lakes, Phase I
BEST PROJECT AWARD Interiorscape Magazine McCaren Designs Atrium
1997 Containerized Edina, MN
1996 St. Paul, MN
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE EMPI Corporation Cardigan Road Project
GRAND AWARD
1996
Design and Workmanship St. Paul, MN
MERIT AWARD ALCA Environmental Improvement Edinborough Leisure Park
1989 Maintenance Edina, MN
MERIT AWARD ALCA Environmental Improvement The Colonnade
1989 Design/Build Minneapolis, MN
MERIT AWARD ALCA Environmental Improvement Edinborough Leisure Park
INC 500
1989 Design/Build Edina, MN
1988 & 1989
INC. Magazine’s 500 Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies in America
HIGHEST HONOR AWARD Interior Plantscape Association Embassy Suites Hotel
1986 Design/Build Irving, TX