Today's article in the Wall Street Journal on architecture in Minneapolis (sub req) by Ada Louise Huxtable, proves that even the best of newspapers (and writers) can have an off day. First, Huxtable starts the piece with this groan inducing string of cliches:
This city, not inappropriately, has produced a smorgasbord of new architecture in the past year, and like the children of Lake Wobegon, all the buildings are above average.
Is it possible to write a story about Minnesota without a lame reference to our alleged Scandinavian heritage (in reality more German) and "A Prairie Home Companion"?
Minneapolis is no stranger to the new. Its modernist landmarks of the 1960s look better than ever. Philip Johnson's IDM building, completed before he succumbed to the sillier aspects of postmodernism, is a rational rebuke to today's torqued and tortured towers.
Ah yes, the famous "IDM" building. Symbol of the civic pride of Minneapolis.
The details do matter. And when you miss such obvious ones, it makes me wonder about the rest of the work.
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