Subject: [Mpls] Guthrie Theater skyway-to-nowhere Mark Wilde Wrote: >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.
Actually for me the skyway is the MOST interesting thing about the building. It's the one thing that makes it distinctive. The rest of it leaves me cold and is just a bunch of windowless boxes - reminds me of the warehouse behind Sears on Lake Street. I think the skyway also "connects" the building to the river. There will be fabulous views. >What's the annual average income of people who donated >money to the Guthrie? What percentage of them have >been homeless? This clearly is a separate issue and has nothing to do with the design of the building. And the fact that we have a housing crisis in the city I hope doesn't mean that we're going to build boring, innocuous buildings. >And more important, how many of them >are going to want to walk across the hall to look at >the skyline of Northeast Minneapolis? A lot, I think. The river view is quite spectacular. >I don't think the image of "going nowhere" is one we want to >project to outside visitors. This might be a philosophical discussion, but.... If one buys into your "going nowhere" description (which I don't), the question becomes, "why does it have to go anywhere?" Why can't we be content with where we are or with our destination? Paul Lohman Lynnhurst PS: I loved my friend Lee Blaske's Letter to the Editor in the Strib in which he likened it to Mpls sticking out its tongue at St. Paul. Ah, the architectural manifestations of sibling rivalry. Paul Lohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
