[thechat] unsubbing / mpls recap

[Erik Mattheis]

On Tuesday, December 9, 2003, at 11:00  AM, Erika Meyer wrote:
> And, hey  Minneapolians, what is that building downtown with the lava 
> lamp on top?

Do you mean the US Bank building? 
http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/2706 - here it is from a wider 
angle: http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/1879

Or do you mean the squat one that looks like a blue stalk of celery? 
That's the AT&T building - one of my favorites. 
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2941

I love Minneapolis - sometimes I go downtown just to walk around ... 
here's another one of my favorite buildings: 
http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/2072 - actually they're all my 
favorites except for the IDS building, which is unfortunately the most 
prominent, and the Pillsbury building, which is really huge, but so 
boring you literally don't notice it's there.

Almost every building downtown is connected by 26 miles of skyway: 
http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/2443 - You can walk all over 
downtown without going outside!

The United Methodist Church is great - it's impossible to get familiar 
enough with it so you don't notice the incredible spire: 
http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/1706 ... this is halfway between 
where I live and the heart of downtown ... about a mile away.

The Mariott is another building that always seems new to the eye: it's 
oddly angled and it's hard to tell what way it's facing or what happens 
at the corners: (blue glass building on left) 
http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/2267

The Weissman looks like something from another planet - 
http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/1761 - you can't tell from that 
photo, but it's perched atop the Mississippi river - it looks like a 
robotic growth coming out of the ledge.

There are parks, lakes and bike paths all over - here is the sculpture 
garden, just south of downtown: 
http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/1682

Check out this inside photo of City Hall 
http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/1610 - the inside of the main 
post office is amazing as well. The county government center is also 
wild: http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/2068 - 1/2 of it is an 
atrium! (we're fond of atriums here - here is the larget one downtown: 
Crystal Court: http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/1137 ) Government 
buildings seem to be wacky by rule in Minneapolis - here's the old 
Federal Reserve building, which has been closed because of an asbestos 
problem: http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/121 - it moved across 
the street into a new building, can't frind a picture, but it's also 
really interesting. Here's the Federal building downtown - I wonder 
who's idea it was to put those mounds there, and how they're kept from 
crumbling: http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/1578