The free-standing twin-arch span will be a first in the state of Minnesota and the continent's longest such bridge.
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November 2010 Archives
The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously approved Oslund and Associates to renovate Peavey Plaza, the modernist public space around Orchestra Hall on the south end of Nicollet Mall.
The Minneapolis landscape architecture firm has designed several of the city's most noteworthy public spaces, including the entrance plaza at Target Field, Gold Medal Park adjacent to the Guthrie Theater and a memorial site commemorating the I-35W bridge collapse.
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Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak wanted assurances that a renovated Peavey Plaza would bring national acclaim to Minneapolis. City Council members just wanted to know that maintaining it wouldn't be a tax burden.
Economic reality kept intruding into visionary dreams Tuesday as four teams of high-powered landscape architects vied for the contract to renovate the iconic plaza at the south end of Nicollet Mall adjacent to Orchestra Hall. The day-long public review session at the Minneapolis Convention Center started with a meet-and-greet coffee session, followed by hour-long presentations by each of the finalists: Damon Farber Associates, Oslund and Associates, Close Landscape Architecture, Coen & Partners. All four firms are based in the Twin Cities but have lined up national collaborators in everything from cost management to "place making" and cold-weather plumbing.
The 40-year-old high-rise complex on the University of Minnesota's West
Bank -- now named Riverside Plaza -- is poised for a $55 million
upgrade. Read about it here.
The Importance of Drawing: Ralph Rapson's Legacy
opens in the HGA Gallery on November 11, 2010 and runs through January
9, 2011.
The Importance of Drawing: Ralph Rapson's Legacy exhibition, Fall 2010.
The influence of Ralph Rapson on architecture is profound. One of his most admired skills -- besides designing outstanding, humanistic architecture -- is his exceptional ability to draw. This exhibition features examples of Rapson's work in addition to that of many of his Minnesota colleagues and students.
In a partnership with the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library, original drawings by Rapson will be exhibited in the library's exhibition gallery, with additional examples of Rapson's work, along with work by many of his Minnesota colleagues and students, featured in the HGA Gallery.
East Bank Mills, the site of a proposed housing development just across
the Mississippi River from downtown Minneapolis, was sold at a sheriff's
sale Monday for $12 million to Bismarck, N.D.-based BNC National Bank
and its partners. BNC held a mortgage on the property for more than $20
million. Read more of this story in the Star Tribune...
Hans-Peter Feldmann, a German artist known for creating carefully conceived installations from everyday images, has won this year's Hugo Boss Prize, the Guggenheim announced on Thursday night. The $100,000 award, established in 1996 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and named for the German men's wear company that sponsors it, is given every two years for significant achievement in contemporary art. Cont.
To learn more about this artist you can find these books in the U of MN library's collection:
Another book = Noch'n Buch.
London : Koenig Books c2010
Quarto N6888.F42 A4 2010Buch [9 = Book [9
Köln : W. König c2007
Quarto TR647 .F4568 2007
ARTstor is collaborating with Aida Laleian to share approximately 960
images of architecture in Romania and Armenia in the Digital Library.
Laleian, a photographer and scholar, traveled extensively in both
countries to document architecture and historic sites. In Romania, she
photographed ancient and medieval churches, monasteries, and castles. Of
particular note are the painted monasteries of Bucovina in the Moldavia
region of northeastern Romania. Dating from the 15th through 17th
centuries, these Orthodox monasteries are adorned with exceptional
exterior and interior fresco decoration. More...
In addition, new photos of ancient through medieval archaeological and architectural sites throughout Europe and the Middle East by Sites and Photos are now available in the Digital Library. The images provide broad and in-depth documentation of the ancient world, including Classical, Megalithic, Islamic, Crusader, and Gothic archaeology and architecture, as well as Greek and Roman painting, sculpture, mosaics, and decorative arts. The collection is especially strong in its coverage of religious and Biblical sites in Israel, Jordan, Tunisia, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Malta, and Cyprus. More...
In addition, new photos of ancient through medieval archaeological and architectural sites throughout Europe and the Middle East by Sites and Photos are now available in the Digital Library. The images provide broad and in-depth documentation of the ancient world, including Classical, Megalithic, Islamic, Crusader, and Gothic archaeology and architecture, as well as Greek and Roman painting, sculpture, mosaics, and decorative arts. The collection is especially strong in its coverage of religious and Biblical sites in Israel, Jordan, Tunisia, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Malta, and Cyprus. More...
Just as birds select and gather materials from their local environments
to fashion safe and nurturing nests, humans build homes that use natural
resources to meet a an array of needs and desires. The exhibit reveals
innovative new building technologies and strategies that can help restore
the health and viability of natural cycles. You'll be introduced to the
functions of shelters, and how animals and humans have adapted to
differing environments through an amazing diversity of structures.
Sustainable Shelters: Dwelling Within the Forces of Nature
Sustainable Shelters: Dwelling Within the Forces of Nature