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• <br />• <br />• <br />crease MUM cuttituuutiy, baiu <br />Jim O'Brien of Williams -O'Brien, <br />architect for the New Brighton <br />project. - .. <br />The result is bright; welcoming <br />2,200-square-foot buildings with <br />vaulted ceilings, knotty -pine panel- <br />ing, gas fireplace, television, VCR <br />and seemingly never-ending win- <br />° doors that welcome the outdoors <br />and community groups inside. • The <br />look is playful. Windows, including <br />two 16-foot panes of glass, climb <br />the wall almost haphazardly, and <br />the ceiling has a stair -step look to <br />it. <br />Visitors enter doors on either of <br />two sides of the buildings to find <br />vending machines, bathrooms and <br />a large great room that can be <br />sectioned into two rooms . to <br />accommodate two smaller groups <br />or,, one large group and seat 50.to <br />55 people. There are rubber floors <br />where skaters tread and carpeting <br />where they do not. <br />;Anderson expects to"see the cen- <br />ters used fdr Scout meetings, fam- <br />ily. reunions, card or book clubs <br />and neighborhood groups. The <br />structures will open soon at Sunny <br />Square Park at County Road H <br />and Silver Lake Road; Freedom ' <br />Park at Silver Lake Road and <br />14th Street; Totem Pole Park at <br />Foss Road one block west of _ Old <br />OWCCl., auu ill. •L' VCISAVCU .1 ass al. <br />;County Road B and Fairview, fea- <br />ture points, angles and bi-fold ' air= <br />plane hangar doors with multiple <br />panes of glass. In warmer weath- <br />>er;.;with;=the hangar doors'- open, <br />the .building becomes "an: open-air <br />pavilion," Bierscheid said. <br />Groups can use the structures, <br />which cost .$280,000 each including <br />site work, though the buildings <br />were designed "primarily..as drop - <br />in spaces," Bierscheid said. <br />Tom Fisher, dean of the College . <br />of Architecture and Landscape <br />Architecture at the University of <br />Minnesota, has noticed the <br />Roseville structures; which he <br />finds "really interesting" and says <br />"look like two buildings all <br />screwed and bolted together." <br />Fisher applauds both cities' <br />efforts to provide aesthetically <br />appealing utilitarian spaces. "Peo- <br />ple are .looking for places to gath- <br />er as a community that are not <br />shopping malls," he said: Cities <br />are realizing that quality of life <br />includes enjoyable_ parks and <br />recreational facilities and these <br />serve everyone. <br />The Inver Grove. Heights 'sc <br />"seem to be taking some •kit <br />hit every time you' turn .ar <br />and .they don't deserve. than <br />Barb. Theirl, a media. Me <br />Salem Hills_ il'M tat►: <br />Merritt, 0,: grew`* -in Mimi <br />California and Florida.,* He. i <br />'as a regional sales manager <br />company. that m4kes lnduf <br />high-pressure pumps,':#raveifql <br />.quently. <br />His,:.daughters aided 'el$ <br />tary.... &ool in Souk fit: Pam; <br />the family lived tbeii and' <br />satisiiied' with the schools; thea <br />said. But that changed ante <br />district opened ..the new Ka <br />Education Center. He said the <br />floor -plan there and some add <br />al bureaucracy were frustrath <br />The family moved to l <br />Grove Heights four years <br />When his oldest _daughter w <br />ninth grade at Simley, •-he <br />upset that she was required <br />some volunteer work related <br />civics class. "There's no such <br />