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$90-Mil Makeover for Walker Art Center

MINNEAPOLIS-Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron will design the facility along with

By Jim McCartney | Updated on April 05, 2001

MINNEAPOLIS-The Walker Art Center has unveiled a $90-million expansion and renovation project. The Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron, in partnership with Hammel, Green and Abrahamson, worked with the Walker on a conceptual design that features interplay of integrated indoor and outdoor spaces.

The Walker Art Center is located a block off Interstate-94 at the corner of Lyndale Avenue South and Vineland Place. Walker Art Center Director Kathy Halbreich says the concept for the expanded Walker campus is to enhance the artistic, educational, and social experience for a wide range of visitors from students and teens to artists.

The enhanced Walker Art Center will feature an additional 100,000 sf to 110,000 sf of interior space, four acres of green space, nearly 14,000 sf of rooftop terraces and visitor amenities including a new restaurant, café, shop and 700-vehicle underground parking facility. The art center will also have galleries and gardens for the museum’s growing collection, a high-tech studio for contemporary dance, music, performance, and theater programs, a new-media laboratory and new spaces for innovative education programs.

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