Peavey Plaza
Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Designed by M. Paul Friedberg
- M. Paul Friedberg, Process Architecture (1989)
During the successful urban renewal projects of the 1960s, the city of Minneapolis hired landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg to design Peavey Plaza to connect with Nicollet Mall, the city鈥檚 new downtown pedestrian mall.
While the plaza was designed as a 鈥渇ront yard鈥� for the Minnesota Orchestra鈥檚 new concert hall, Peavey Plaza became an urban oasis for downtown inhabitants. Waterfalls absorbed city noise and small garden 鈥渞ooms,鈥� delineated by groves of honey locusts, created a sense of human intimacy that softened the modern angular surfaces. Today, pressure to further develop downtown threatens the survival of Peavey Plaza. The public needs to understand the site鈥檚 significance, or else it will see the plaza鈥檚 original Modernist design destroyed. more...
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