Does anyone dislike this feature of the proposed
design as much as me?  I think it stinks.  It's an
example of an architect getting paid too much money
and having too much time on his hands.  

Why can't the same argument be made against this
skyway-to-nowhere that is made against the Twins
stadium?  Can we in good conscience spend money to
build this monument to wasted effort when we are in
the middle (hopefully the middle by now) of a
recession?

What's the annual average income of people who donated
money to the Guthrie?  What percentage of them have
been homeless? And more important, how many of them
are going to want to walk across the hall to look at
the skyline of Northeast Minneapolis?

Don't get me wrong, I'm for the Guthrie in principal,
but this part of the design has really got me nuts. 
There are two other skyways in downtown that extend
over the street into an empty parking lot.  I don't
think the image of "going nowhere" is one we want to
project to outside visitors.

Mark Wilde
Windom Park

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