Walker Art Center + Gehry Fish

Walker Art Center + Gehry Fish

Will Bruder and I agreed the other day that this is possibly the best building in the midwest: The Walker Art Center

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one of the incredible custom materials in this project, the custom pixel patterned concrete floor

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 custom stamped perforated metal facade

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The facade wraps under the floating building, and the gift shop sits below it. Interesting! 

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A view through the thick facade. 

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 The super ornamental, almost postmodern decorative soffit. 

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 Glass chandeliers that look like ice. Appropriate for Minnesota. 

Outside the Walker is the Minneapolis sculpture garden, which includes an incredible fish sculpture by Frank Gehry (within a greenhouse)

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Images by Jonathan Choe