Construction Friday, St. Bonaventure Catholic Church

Construction Friday!

Vanman Architects and Builders laying the foundations for St. Bonaventure Catholic Church in Bloomington, MN.





Architect Led Design Build is NOT typical Design/Build!

Architects, call me to better serve YOUR clients. Let's partner up so you can become more profitable and retain your high status during construction!

Build with a partner that has your back.


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One low cost change.....

My cousin is looking at three homes in San Diego, I am jealous of all three and the location.

One home has potential but someone has spent a couple decades installing all the wrong stuff (spec home things).

Here is a before and after image I did in a few minutes with free apps.

The first thing your eye is drawn to sets the tone for the room, home and it's owner.

Cheap white six panel doors are NOT the right look for this home. Add some nice black or oil rubbed bronze hardware and the entire home will have a more casual, relaxed, upscale and enjoyable every time you open and close the doors.

Good luck Joe, you Catholic Cancer Crusader!!!



Don't give me no crap about perspective....didn't do in photoshop, but on my iPhone with ArtStudio app.

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Location:Durant St NE,Isanti,United States

Cross Lake Home - Pine City

Plenty of revisions and refinements to the detailing on this home.
Pre-Final Exterior Elevations Below

Cross Lake Addition

Getting close to the final look.... Integrating an overlook deck between the gables, then a little fine tuning and ready to go..


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I miss the freedom of Art

Time Space and Focus:


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Location:Durant St NE,Isanti,United States

Cross Lake Addition, Pine City

A taller, wrap around addition creates a new MN wood and stone look and feel to this existing 900sf lake home.

Saving and remodeling the entire existing home and garage slab reduces new square footage dramatically.

First sketches of the exterior:


Front yard/street frontage




Side yard/entry stair and loft tower.




View from the Lake




Side yard (existing on left)



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Natures Dry Cleaning

Wrapping up the construction drawings for the remodel of a MN Hardees into an environmentally friendly dry cleaners. They use a process that does not use the flammable and harmful chemicals most dry cleaner machines rely on. Even the soon to be adopted building code recognizes this system as safer not only for the environment but for the workers and occupants in the dry cleaning facility. We can omit the fire sprinkler system and thus save about $60,000 in remodel costs!

I am attaching just a few design drawings here. Not a lot of budget for design, so focusing on site and building signage concepts, creating nice drop-off and drive-up entries and lobby.

Curious how quickly these family owned businesses will improve their bottom lines in a larger, single, owner occupied building, designed around their business concepts.

Good luck Mark and Penny!




EXTERIOR - MAIN ENTRY.



EXTERIOR FACING HWY 10



SITE PLAN - MAIN ENTRY

Landscaping is intended to become the memorable feature of this project.

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