Bottineau Recreation Center was designed as a new facility:

13,530 square feet
Completion in 2001
Construction cost: $1,400,000

The original gym and recreation building, located on this park site in Minneapolis, were built in the 1970s, but destroyed by arsonists several years ago.  Consequently, the park project was very important to the community.  There were major budget concerns, increasing program needs and other complications.  Despite this, the project came in under budget, mainly due to the innovative use of a fabric covered, pre-engineered truss system for the field house.  Use of this type of building system, while being very cost effective and visually interesting, is not without maintenance concerns.  Seams can be hard to conceal and the membrane needs to be replaced every twenty years (which is actually similar to most conventional roofing systems).

The arched roof concept, used on the Field House, was also included at the Recreation Center with a conventional standing seam steel roof.  The architect used a grid pattern with many of the finishes: the curtain wall, the restroom tile floors and walls, and the entire brick facade.  The brick checkerboard pattern was utilized to help make the building more prominent, interesting and identifiable.