Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle Ltd

Case Studies

Industry Expertise

Sixty percent of MS&R's work is for institutional clients, such as universities, libraries and museums. The remaining work is done in the private sector for corporations (office and meeting facilities), food service operations (restaurants and bakeries), and individual residential clients.

Clients

  • ABC Carpet & Home
  • Alliance Capital Management
  • Andersen Corporation
  • Aspen Research
  • Facility Systems, Inc.
  • General Mills Recognition Court
  • Guilford of Maine Headquarters
  • Herman Miller Design Yard & Herman Miller, Inc.
  • Hormel Foods Visitor's Center
  • Kopp Investment Advisors
  • Lagerquist & Sons, Inc.
  • Lauritsen Design Group
  • Lynch/Jarvis/Jones
  • MS&R
  • Saint Anthony Main Phase IV
  • SEI Investments
  • Unity Avenue Associates
  • Valspar Research
  • Zero Base Advertising

Mission Statement

To perpetuate a self-renewing, creative architectural practice that benefits our clients, our society and ourselves.

Type of work and disciplines represented in the firm

Sixty percent of MS&R's work is for institutional clients, such as libraries, universities and museums. The remaining work is done in the private sector for corporations (office and meeting facilities), food service operations (restaurants and bakeries), and individual residential clients. MS&R offers a wide variety of services, including:

  • Full architectural services
  • Interior design
  • Architectural research
  • Feasibility studies
  • Historic preservation
  • Programming
  • Site selection & master planning
  • Computer-aided design & visualization
  • Project phasing
  • Construction observation
  • Space planning
  • Furniture design
  • Model making
  • Value engineering
  • Presentation drawings
  • Code & ordinance work
  • Urban Design
  • Solicitation & Coordination of Intrinsic Art and Crafts

How the company works with clients and users

Our office is structured as a series of interactive, project based teams devoted to independent work with regular internal reviews of projects by partners and key technical support staff. In this way, we can bring the best human and technical resources in the office to bear on several projects at once. At the same time, we honor the role of assigned individuals and project teams to act as focused and dedicated advocates of client interests. Wherever and whenever possible, we assign key staff to remain with a project from start to finish. Attention to detail and maintaining a broad and deep cultural view are hallmarks of our design approach and work. While we might all be moved by the ways good design touches our emotions and expands our thoughtful experience, ultimately those who work or live in a place must live with its details.

Principals

Thomas Meyer, AIA
Jeffrey A. Scherer, FAIA
Garth Rockcastle, FAIA
Marc Partridge, AIA, Senior Associate, Contact for Corporate Projects

Address

119 North Second Street
Minneapolis, MN 55401

Phone: 612.375.0336
Fax: 612.342.2216

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Web: www.msrltd.com