DFormA - DWR Edina

Before launching Studio SJ in 2018, founder S. Jazmine Fugate worked for over a decade at the offices of other architects.  While at DFormA as a Senior Architect and Project Manager from 2015-2018, she focused on bespoke retail, industrial, and public spaces and developed a passion for adaptive reuse.

DFormA designed over twenty studios for Design Within Reach during their recent and quite rapid expansion. This studio was in the Galleria, a luxury shopping mall in the Minneapolis metro area. This location required a bespoke facade design to elevate the exterior presentation, which was done in collaboration with the mall’s architect, in addition to the interior tenant improvement. Fugate led the project from concept through construction administration.

Construction cost: $3M; Area: 13,000SF; Status: construction complete 2017