225 South Sixth Designed by: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Construction Completed: 1992 Area: Downtown Minneapolis Post Code: 55402 City: Minneapolis, Minnesota
A piece of turn-of-the-millennium European architecture springing up in America's heartland. This skyscraper would be perfectly at home in Frankfurt, Berlin, or London. It's main feature is a glitteri...read more >>
33 South Sixth Designed by: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Construction Completed: 1983 Area: Downtown Minneapolis Post Code: 55402 City: Minneapolis, Minnesota
The basic concrete skyscraper grid is livened up a bit by irregularly spacing the vertical elements. In the wider middle section the spaces between columns is larger than at the ends of the building. ...read more >>
701 Building Designed by: Murphy/Jahn Architects Construction Completed: 1984 Area: Downtown Minneapolis Post Code: 55415 City: Minneapolis, Minnesota
It's not the tallest building in Minneapolis, but it makes its presence felt. The 701 Building is a sturdy hexagonal glass knob that uses its good looks to make up for its diminutive stature. The buil...read more >>
Accenture Tower Designed by: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates Construction Completed: 1987 Area: Downtown Minneapolis Post Code: 55402 City: Minneapolis, Minnesota
This building seems to suffer from a conflicted personality. It wants to be a modern glass tower. It wants to be a stately Georgian mansion. It wants to be a municipal hospital. In many ways it's fort...read more >>
Basilica of Saint Mary Designed by: Emmanuel Masqeray Construction Completed: 1925 Area: Loring Park Post Code: 55405 City: Minneapolis, Minnesota
An unfortunate victim of poor urban planning this cathedral has been hemmed in by freeways and streets until it is nearly impossible to appreciate it as it was intended. But the basilica is no strange...read more >>