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Letter to the Editor - Ideas for the Minneapolis Riverfront
From River Talk:
None of us works alone, and none of us is the first person ever to think and act to rejuvenate a riverfront. Those of us fortunate to work on the future of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis truly stand "on the shoulders of giants."
From The Journal:
TLS/KVA, a design coalition led by California-based Tom Leader Studio and Maryland-based Kennedy & Violich Architecture, has beat out 54 teams from around the globe to win the Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition.
From Mill City Times:
TLS/KVA was named the winner of the Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition today during a press conference at the Nicollet Island Pavilion. View the presentation and detailed proposal below:
From the Star Tribune:
The selection is part of a Minneapolis effort to provide more parks, recreation and jobs along the Mississippi River north of the Stone Arch Bridge.
From OnEarth Magazine:
The finalists have names like City of the River and Streamlines. They're all visions for reconnecting the city of Minneapolis to the Mississippi riverfront.
From River Talk:
Public participation in planning/design projects is a funny thing. Everyone talks about it; lots of people do something that they think of as "public engagement"; few practitioners really take it seriously; fewer still make public participation central to the project itself.
This isn't the time or venue for a full-blown treatise on public engagement for riverfront projects, but let me say that the Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition has employed three strategies in particular that are noteworthy: youth involvement through a design imagination exercise, a "designer ask" survey, and collection of comments regarding the four finalists' proposals.
From River Talk:
The Turenscape team, headed by a firm in Beijing, presented the "Resilient River" plan. I will remind you that I am addressing these plans alphabetically by lead team; no slight is intended by discussing this proposal last.
Resilience is a concept particularly apt in discussions of urban rivers. Most urban systems have a degree of resilience, although many could be more so, or could have their resilience in more diverse spheres. Resilience is an important concept in ecological and sustainability thinking; bringing those discussions to bear in planning and design of the urban river is an idea whose time has come.
From TreeHugger.com:
Minneapolis, already named the country's most bike-friendly city, is about to get quite a makeover. In September, the city's Park and Recreation Board announced a design competition to create a new image of the Upper Mississippi Riverfront. In November, four finalists out of a pool of 55 were announced, each presenting a design for the 220 acres of parkland, neighborhoods and business districts on both sides of a 5.4 mile stretch of the river, from the Stone Arch Bridge in downtown Minneapolis to northern edge of the city.
From River Talk:
Overhead time lapse images of the construction of the Outdoor StreamLab at Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory.
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Friday, February 11, 2011 at 6:55AM