As I walked through on Sunday afternoon, I took this corner detail of Philip Johnson's Crystal Court. I had to go into work to charge my phone, and it was dead quiet downtown. This is a huge space to see empty. It's bizarrely quiet.
Annex the IDS tower, the crystal court connects the skyway system on a catwalk around an indoor park. There is a cool fountain, which I'll need to get a picture of...
Opened in 1974, the IDS Center (or IDS Tower; in its first years its name was officially spelled IDS Centre; at the time the europeanism was supposed to reflect the tower's role in catapulting Minneapolis into its present status as a world-class city) is the tallest building in Minneapolis, Minnesota at 792 feet (241.4 m). -Totally just stole that from Wikipedia. Love Wiki. Johnson's unique stepback design allowed for 32 corner offices on each floor. He called these steps "Zogs". He was a huge queen. He just died last year.
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