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LODGING
The Ricepod, one of the cabins at Wild Rice Retreat, is nestled in the woods. The first of their lodging choices housed two twin beds, in-floor radiant heat, and windows from all sides, including a skylight and views of lush trees. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
The Ricepod, the first lodging choice, houses two twin beds, in-floor radiant heat, windows on all sides (including a skylight) and views of lush trees.
They didn’t want bunk beds and barebone surroundings with a community bathroom. They wanted it to be geared toward women and feel more like a luxury experience. It’s taking camping up 10 more notches, Bermel said.
American firm Salmela Architect has designed a solar-powered urban-infill house that is meant to demonstrate a new way forward for single-family housing.
Called Electric Bungalow, the project in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was designed for Thomas Fisher, a longtime architecture professor at the University of Minnesota, and his wife, Claudia Wielgorecki.
Electric Bungalow is in Minnesota
The house sits near the university, in the St. Anthony Park neighbourhood.
The clients have lived in the area for two dozen years. After purchasing a new property near their original home, they contacted Salmela Architect – based in Duluth, Minnesota – to design a sustainable dwelling that embraced the local context.
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David Salmela, an award-winning Duluth architect, has a list of people waiting to move into Salmela-designed homes, which can sometimes fetch more than seven-figure prices. So does Seanne Thomas, a Twin Cities real estate broker who caters to entry-level buyers.
While many of Salmela s clients can afford the best design that money can buy, one of his latest is a St. Paul nonprofit that has hired him to design more than a dozen modular, solar-powered houses that are being craned into place on a redevelopment site in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city.
With a star architect and high-end materials and construction techniques, the project shatters many of the stereotypes about the quality and character of affordable housing.
As many in the north country can attest, one of life s great pleasures resides in the tradition of sauna-sitting in 180-plus-degree heat and throwing cool water on oven-hot stones to create a blast of steam (called lu6yly), followed by a jump in the lake, standing naked in subzero temperatures (or even a roll in the snow), or just relaxing on the cooling porch. To the uninitiated, there is a strange, alluring mystique to the art of Finnish sauna. But to an ever-increasing number of people-from their small urban saunas to backwoods and lakeside retreats-the culture and practice of Finnish sauna are as much a part of northwoods life as campfires and canoe trips.Beginning with the origins of Finnish sauna and how the practice was first brought to North America, and continuing all the way to contemporary design, The Opposite of Cold is an exquisite commemoration of the history, culture, and practice of Finnish sauna in the northwoods. With stunning photographs of unique and historic saun