Topic: msp: u of m campus

[mrnyc]

I took a stroll around the u of m campus…






   

dinkytown aka the university of minnesota’s high street












not so dinky anymore!


this was an awesome, gorgeous campus building, too bad the morning light was against me






romanesque style
















weisman art museum doesn’t look like much from this angle, but…










yup, it’s a gehry (1993)
http://weisman.umn.edu/architecture/arch.html


mississippi riverside view






hospital + more campus over the river







students can walk over the bridge under cover…


…or out in the open
traffic goes underneath
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Avenue_Bridge_(Minneapolis)


more campus


boston city hall’s cousin?


from afar


alumni center
http://www.alumnicenter.umn.edu/architecture.html


this past season was the inaugural year for the new tcf bank gopher stadium
http://stadium.gophersports.com/






old fire station on the way to the stadium


williams arena (1927)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_Arena






back to the stadium










time for a break -- one of the best craft beer bars in town


surly furious = awesome
http://www.surlybrewing.com/


“can i have some of your tots?”  “no, go find your own”
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100124205455AAD9Z1x






back to town


*** i hope u enjoyed the little tour -- u of m ain’t a bad campus ***

[eastvillagedon]

thanks, I've always wondered what that school looked like. I had a friend at Ohio State whose older sister went to Minnesota and claimed (while we were all at the Blue Danube one evening) that there was no equivalent area like High St with its vast array of casual restaurants & bars near that campus. How accurate is that? (then again, that was over 30 years ago, so it may have been much different back then)

[C-Dawg]

Minneapolis seems like a great city, but this campus is lacking something.

This is nothing like University of Michigan or University of Wisconsin. It appears Ann Arbor and Madison runs circles around Minneapolis as far as university districts go. I'd say Ohio State looks better too. I think a big part of the issue is landscaping. This is a harsh-looking campus. The main green looks nice, but outside of that, there is too much concrete and too much modernism. And that Boston City Hall cousin automatically brings the place down a couple notches.

The basketball arena looks incredible though. I love historic arenas. That might be the best arena in the Big Ten. I'm indifferent towards the football stadium, but the large grain elevator complexes next to campus is pretty unique and marks it as a Midwestern city. I'm interested in seeing more of the general area (commercial district, nightlife area, student neighborhoods, fraternity/sorority row, etc.). What's the housing like?

[mrnyc]

within 15 minutes c-dawg is all over this thread, what a surprise!   

well...dinkytown spawned bob dylan...

here is some info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinkytown
http://www.dinkytownminneapolis.com/

colorful red barn protest, 1970   
http://www.barnbuster.net/DinkytownRedBarnprotest.html

* outside of dinkytown almost all of the bars and clubs are over the river next to the west bank of campus (cedar-riverside), which has the hippie/punk music history and is still thriving, i saw it but didnt go there because i wanted to see the gehry 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar-Riverside,_Minneapolis
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/neighborhoods/cedarriverside_profile_home.asp

[ColDayMan]

It's tough to compete Dinkytown with *ahem* DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS so I'd say Dinkytown is fine for what it is.  And, of course, the students would MUCH rather go to downtown Minneapolis with Dinkytown's secondary option than live in Ann Arbor or Madison.

Also, TCF Bank Gopher Stadium is easily the best Big 10 stadium outside of Ohio State .  I love love love it.  And I must say, Gopher fans are the nicest Big 10 fans, period.

[Wheelingman]

Looks nice too me. Not too suburban but not extremely urban either. Nice for a college campus and being by one of America's best downtown areas is such an advantage. Love the new stadium too.