(Ryan Somma– flickr/creative commons license) The new Science Museum of Minnesota on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi river in 1999. It has the only convertible-dome Omnitheater in the U.S., with a 70ft tall screen. I can’t find who the architect …
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(puroticorico– flickr/creative commons license) Tom Meyer of Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastlehe converted the ruins of Washburn “A” Mill into the Mill City Museum, on the Mississippi waterfront in Minneapolis, completed in 2003. The city’s roots as a production powerhouse for …
Frank Gehry designed the Frederick R. Weisman Museum at the University of Minnesota in Twin Cities Minnesota. The typically metal building strategically places windows which overlook the Mississippi river and downtown Minneapolis. It was completed in 1993. The broken up …
(Michael Hicks– flickr/creative commons license) The IDS center was designed by famed post-modernist Philip Johnson, and opened in 1972. This headquarters for Investors Diversified Services still stands as the tallest building in Minnesota. The ground-floor Crystal Court takes the sleek …
(Tony Webster– flickr/creative commons license) Cesar Pelli and Architectural Alliance designed the Minneapolis Public Library MPL in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It has been hailed as a new step toward environmental buildings, with a rooftop garden, daylighting, window screens, and a large …
(Eric Weisser– flickr/creative commons license) Here’s another Herzog and de Meuron, an expansion to the Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The museum was first built in 1879 and focused on modern art in the 1940’s. This $67 million addition …