Your best bet is public transportation (especially during rush hour, 35W and 494 are a pain). The light rail is really easy and cheap. It goes from the airport straight to downtown, and back.
The Walker art center is great, and it has an exhibit right now with UMN's Arch Dean Tom Fisher and MS&R (it's on the walker's homepage). It's in uptown, maybe a mile from downtown (if that). Has probably the best sculpture garden I've ever seen (garden is free). The Guthrie has this awesome endless bridge that hovers over the Mississippi and overlooks the east bank mill district and the stone arch bridge. It's in downtown. It's right next door to the Mill City Museum (on the West bank mill district). And is only 3 blocks away from the new Library and Nicollet Pedestrian Mall. I would say definetely see the Library, Guthrie, and Mill City right when you get off the Light rail (it's really close). Then make your way to uptown for the Walker or campus for the Arch Building and the Weisman Museum via bus or taxi (maybe 5 bucks cost).
Chino Latino is kind of trendy, but still fun (uptown). Brit's Pub is my favorite place (Downtown on Nicollet Ped. Mall). And Pizza Luce is the best pizza I've ever had (Downtown/Warehosue district).
oh, the links above, if you click on teh building's name it takes you to a site for the info of the place and the location. the "pic" is a seperate link that shows you what the building looks like.
The Library and Guthrie theatre are brand new (last couple months). The Walker and Mill City Museum are fairly new (within a year or two), the U of Mn Arch building is a few years old, and the Weisman is a bit older than that.
superbeatledud,
you are my new favorite archinect-or
i was just looking at the metrotransit and walker websites simultaneously and trying to figure out how to get there...now i plenty else to see as well!
the light rail looks super easy and i'm looking forward to last minute jaunt through minneapolis.
It's actually quite easy. When you arrive at the airport go down to the baggage claim level. Then take the escalators down below that level. Walk all the way to the end (under the parking) to where the tram is at. Take the tram to the other end and down the escalators to the light rail station. Should be signs along the way. The train arriving on the left side should go downtown. Seems like a long hike but it's quick. I take it often.
Buy a ticket at the kiosk($1.50 or $2.00 rush hour) and head downtown.
The new Pelli public library is on Hennepin Ave not a block from the Warehouse District stop. Haven't been in there yet but worth a look I'm sure. Also not too far is the new Guthrie theater by Jean Nouvel. Just opened in July. If you take Hennepin Ave. north to 2nd street, turn right it's down about a block or two. It's a blue building. Can't miss it. While near the river a walk over the stone arch bridge is always worth it for the view.
If you get off at the Nicollet Mall station you can head south on that road. More or less an shopping street in the heart of downtown. You can walk through the lobbies of all the big glass towers by Johnson, Pelli, Pei, etc.
You'd have to get onto a bus to really get over to the University so I'm guessing you don't have time to see our local Ghery building. I'm blanking on other things right now. Will post more later if I've got time.
Ok, so this proves that I have nothing better to do, but here's a Map I made with markers of all the places and light rail stops. It's like 4 megs, so may take a few minutes. Once it loads, just save as, and print it. It's in 11x17 format, so print it that way or make multiple pages. Shrink to print for the 11x17. Color is better.
I may add, tweak it, but I'll let you know if I do.
I move to nominate SuperBeatledud the official editor of all Archinect travel guides.
Just a general heads up, with only 7 hours you won't possibly have time enough for everything. The light rail takes about 25 minutes to go from the airport to downtown. Getting over to the Walker Art or Univ of MN will require a bus or taxi. Just plan for your time or you might be spending the night in Mpls.
yeah, a lot of my time is constrained by how smoothly my other travel goes, but, i'm scheduled to arrive at noon and leave at 7, so...i'll see, but this map is great, and i would be happy with just seeing the mill, library, and guthrie.
thanks a lot!
yeah, you'll be moving fast. but if you can swing it, walking the nicollet mall south from downtown and then walking across loring park, across the bridge, and to the walker would be very nice, too.
also very impt: andy forgot to map glam slam (assuming it's still there), prince's club. won't be much happening, but you could check it off your list of things to see. i think it's on 5th between first and second ave. 'course you'd also want to see the famous first avenue as you're walking by.
from citysearch:
"When the club was known as Glam Slam, Prince's stone-engraved face decorated the pillars around the dance floor. Sadly, they've been removed."
First off, Prince divorced his wife last week. He's either depressed, or looking for some bachelor loving.
Secondly, we should develop a series of sight seeing maps for architectural purposes of all of our collective major cities. A and I could work on MSP (mostly A as I no longer live there). WonderK, SuperHeavy, and I could work on Cincinnati, and so forth. It would have to be a collective thing though, with graphic standards set forth. Hell, we could probably make a butt load of money (but most importantly help each archinect person who travels to cities wanting to see sights. Especially since a lot of it is for business and we just want to do a quick hit of the city's musts). I know one of these maps would have helped me when I went to Phoenix this summer.
I think the Quest is what once was Prince's club. On occasion they'll still get decent acts and European superstar Dj's. The rest of the time they book small rap & R&B acts and end up with crime in and around the club. Then when the Quest had a press release saying they weren't going to book anymore R&B or rap artists because of the crime they were labeled as racist.
If you want to go on the Prince tour these days you'll have to rent a car and drive way out the SW 'burbs to find his Paisley Park studios.
thanks everyone! i had enough time to make it over to the walker, AND check out the exhibit, which was great.
then i trotted around the library and meandered through the mill.
i had a nice time and made it back to my gate just in time to board.
emily, it's goregous here, and really i don't miss anything about being home. you will have a great time, too bad our schedules were off!
SuperBeatledud - most german cities have architecture maps of the sort i believe you're thinking of: metropolitan area map, city map, and downtown map w/ "significant buildings" dotted and numbered. a small booklet has name of architect, year built and name of project; some get into a bit more detail. they're waterproof so they work great;
a digital version may be more appropriate for this purpose... maybe a wiki site?
I've already purchased the site domain name and started the base code for the maping system. It will be online, with filters, and updateable. It will have the availability for people to submit additional information and therefor constantly update the site.
I'm already using Google's free api.
stay tuned, when more of the details are worked out, I'll need everyone's help to collect the data for each city.
at the walker i saw the cameron jamie exhibit. which was cool, because i had been hearing a lot about him lately.
AND
the diane arbus exhibit was fantastic!
from MSP to town
how easy is it to get from minneapolis/st. paul international airport to the city of minneapolis and back, preferably on public transporation?
i have 7 hours to hang out tomorrow.
is it worth it?
sure, just get on the light rail, they run every 10 minutes or so.
i love that question. will someone send it to all my metro council members, please? they don't listen to those who live here.
Your best bet is public transportation (especially during rush hour, 35W and 494 are a pain). The light rail is really easy and cheap. It goes from the airport straight to downtown, and back.
I would totally say it's worth it. Minneapolis is a great city. St. Paul is good too, but if you only have 7 hours, I'd say stick with downtown/uptown Minneapolis. Below is a list of architecture sites and some restaurants.
Architecture:
1. Herzog & de Meuron's Walker Art Center pic
2. Jean Nouvel's Guthrie Theatre pic
3. Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle's Mill City Museum/ruins pic
4. Steven Holl's U of Minnesota's Architecture Building pic
5. Cesar Pelli's Minneapolis Downtown Library pic
6. Frank Gehry's Weisman Art Museum pic
Restaurants:
1. Chino Latino
2. Brit's Pub
3. Pizza Luce
The Walker art center is great, and it has an exhibit right now with UMN's Arch Dean Tom Fisher and MS&R (it's on the walker's homepage). It's in uptown, maybe a mile from downtown (if that). Has probably the best sculpture garden I've ever seen (garden is free). The Guthrie has this awesome endless bridge that hovers over the Mississippi and overlooks the east bank mill district and the stone arch bridge. It's in downtown. It's right next door to the Mill City Museum (on the West bank mill district). And is only 3 blocks away from the new Library and Nicollet Pedestrian Mall. I would say definetely see the Library, Guthrie, and Mill City right when you get off the Light rail (it's really close). Then make your way to uptown for the Walker or campus for the Arch Building and the Weisman Museum via bus or taxi (maybe 5 bucks cost).
Chino Latino is kind of trendy, but still fun (uptown). Brit's Pub is my favorite place (Downtown on Nicollet Ped. Mall). And Pizza Luce is the best pizza I've ever had (Downtown/Warehosue district).
If you need maps or more info, let me know.
oh, the links above, if you click on teh building's name it takes you to a site for the info of the place and the location. the "pic" is a seperate link that shows you what the building looks like.
The Library and Guthrie theatre are brand new (last couple months). The Walker and Mill City Museum are fairly new (within a year or two), the U of Mn Arch building is a few years old, and the Weisman is a bit older than that.
superbeatledud,
you are my new favorite archinect-or
i was just looking at the metrotransit and walker websites simultaneously and trying to figure out how to get there...now i plenty else to see as well!
the light rail looks super easy and i'm looking forward to last minute jaunt through minneapolis.
THANKYOU!THANKYOU!
It's actually quite easy. When you arrive at the airport go down to the baggage claim level. Then take the escalators down below that level. Walk all the way to the end (under the parking) to where the tram is at. Take the tram to the other end and down the escalators to the light rail station. Should be signs along the way. The train arriving on the left side should go downtown. Seems like a long hike but it's quick. I take it often.
Buy a ticket at the kiosk($1.50 or $2.00 rush hour) and head downtown.
The new Pelli public library is on Hennepin Ave not a block from the Warehouse District stop. Haven't been in there yet but worth a look I'm sure. Also not too far is the new Guthrie theater by Jean Nouvel. Just opened in July. If you take Hennepin Ave. north to 2nd street, turn right it's down about a block or two. It's a blue building. Can't miss it. While near the river a walk over the stone arch bridge is always worth it for the view.
If you get off at the Nicollet Mall station you can head south on that road. More or less an shopping street in the heart of downtown. You can walk through the lobbies of all the big glass towers by Johnson, Pelli, Pei, etc.
You'd have to get onto a bus to really get over to the University so I'm guessing you don't have time to see our local Ghery building. I'm blanking on other things right now. Will post more later if I've got time.
SuperBeatleDud, you beat me. That's what I get for starting something and then taking phone calls.
I'll second the Pizza Luce. The downtown location is on 4th street, about 2-3 blocks west of the new library. Good pizza.
Ok, so this proves that I have nothing better to do, but here's a Map I made with markers of all the places and light rail stops. It's like 4 megs, so may take a few minutes. Once it loads, just save as, and print it. It's in 11x17 format, so print it that way or make multiple pages. Shrink to print for the 11x17. Color is better.
I may add, tweak it, but I'll let you know if I do.
I move to nominate SuperBeatledud the official editor of all Archinect travel guides.
Just a general heads up, with only 7 hours you won't possibly have time enough for everything. The light rail takes about 25 minutes to go from the airport to downtown. Getting over to the Walker Art or Univ of MN will require a bus or taxi. Just plan for your time or you might be spending the night in Mpls.
yeah, a lot of my time is constrained by how smoothly my other travel goes, but, i'm scheduled to arrive at noon and leave at 7, so...i'll see, but this map is great, and i would be happy with just seeing the mill, library, and guthrie.
thanks a lot!
yeah, you'll be moving fast. but if you can swing it, walking the nicollet mall south from downtown and then walking across loring park, across the bridge, and to the walker would be very nice, too.
also very impt: andy forgot to map glam slam (assuming it's still there), prince's club. won't be much happening, but you could check it off your list of things to see. i think it's on 5th between first and second ave. 'course you'd also want to see the famous first avenue as you're walking by.
i love minneapolis... and that ruins museum on the mill road blew me away... right next door to the guthrie which also blew me away...
WHA? PRINCE PEOPLE DON'T PARTY AT NOON?!!
then i might as well just forget all of it.
maybe just the leftovers from a late afterparty in the vip. but i don't recommend that.
from citysearch:
"When the club was known as Glam Slam, Prince's stone-engraved face decorated the pillars around the dance floor. Sadly, they've been removed."
SADLY.
Prince was recently sighted going door to door in a mpls neighborhood as a Jehovah's Witness with a limo and four body guards!!!!
sigh- there goes any chance of hearing purple rain live...
i remember those! saw him there when he introduced all the songs that became 'the gold experience'. what a circus. but unforgettable.
First off, Prince divorced his wife last week. He's either depressed, or looking for some bachelor loving.
Secondly, we should develop a series of sight seeing maps for architectural purposes of all of our collective major cities. A and I could work on MSP (mostly A as I no longer live there). WonderK, SuperHeavy, and I could work on Cincinnati, and so forth. It would have to be a collective thing though, with graphic standards set forth. Hell, we could probably make a butt load of money (but most importantly help each archinect person who travels to cities wanting to see sights. Especially since a lot of it is for business and we just want to do a quick hit of the city's musts). I know one of these maps would have helped me when I went to Phoenix this summer.
I think the Quest is what once was Prince's club. On occasion they'll still get decent acts and European superstar Dj's. The rest of the time they book small rap & R&B acts and end up with crime in and around the club. Then when the Quest had a press release saying they weren't going to book anymore R&B or rap artists because of the crime they were labeled as racist.
If you want to go on the Prince tour these days you'll have to rent a car and drive way out the SW 'burbs to find his Paisley Park studios.
Quest is own by Clearchannel...booh the Quest...plus they always have crappy shows.
First Ave forever!
bye stephanie! Have fun in the UK! Sorry we will be passing each other in mid-air!
thanks everyone! i had enough time to make it over to the walker, AND check out the exhibit, which was great.
then i trotted around the library and meandered through the mill.
i had a nice time and made it back to my gate just in time to board.
emily, it's goregous here, and really i don't miss anything about being home. you will have a great time, too bad our schedules were off!
give prince a call , he's in the book, maybe he has sometime to hang. i think paul westerberg is listed too.
which exhibit did you see? the tom fisher one? how was it.
just gave notice in LA- Mpls here I come!
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SuperBeatledud - most german cities have architecture maps of the sort i believe you're thinking of: metropolitan area map, city map, and downtown map w/ "significant buildings" dotted and numbered. a small booklet has name of architect, year built and name of project; some get into a bit more detail. they're waterproof so they work great;
a digital version may be more appropriate for this purpose... maybe a wiki site?
how 'bout google earth for the base map?
I've already purchased the site domain name and started the base code for the maping system. It will be online, with filters, and updateable. It will have the availability for people to submit additional information and therefor constantly update the site.
I'm already using Google's free api.
stay tuned, when more of the details are worked out, I'll need everyone's help to collect the data for each city.
at the walker i saw the cameron jamie exhibit. which was cool, because i had been hearing a lot about him lately.
AND
the diane arbus exhibit was fantastic!
and all the other stuff was nice as well.
steph you got good taste gurl...
i know, i do, don't i!
thanks man.
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