The Walker Art Center: Insistently Hip?

The Walker Art Center: Insistently Hip?

In the July issue of House & Garden, architecture critic Martin Filler issues a lethal takedown of the recently unveiled addition to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the Pritzker Prize-winning firm that turned a London power station into the Tate Modern several years ago, the addition has garnered both praise and vitriol in broadsheets and blogs since opening this past April. Now it’s the glossies turn.

Here’s what Filler has to say about the design:

The architects devised a module of square, perforated aluminum panels embossed with an abstract pattern.

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