Architecture: Target Wing at the MIA by yooperprof
Michael Graves was selected to design the new "Target" Wing at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The results are disappointing, IMHO. From the street, the addition is rather boring and uninviting. It could house virtually any kind of institution: a medical center, a library, even a secretive governmental bureaucracy.Interesting fact: all over the Midwest, major American museums whose main buildings are stoutly neo-classical and traditional have been commissioning major "starchitects" to expand their limited exhibition spaces. It will be interesting to see what Stephen Holl in Kansas City, Renzo Piano in Chicago, and in Rafael Vinoly in Cleveland come up with. (I have a sneak preview of the Bloch Wing of the Nelson-Atkins on my Kansas City page.)
