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Article: Walker On The Wild Side; Already famous in Europe, Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron are about to leave their first mark on the United States. But they're not stopping there.(Walker Art Center in Minneapolis)
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- Newsweek International
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- March 28, 2005
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Byline: Cathleen McGuigan
As everyone knows, winter is still blasting the American Midwest. Besides the blustery snow, a giant ice cube has landed in Minneapolis--and it's not going to melt by spring. "A big ice cube for Ice City," jokes the avant-garde European architect Jacques Herzog, one half of the Basel-based team of Herzog & de Meuron, who've designed the expansion of the city's Walker Art Center, opening next month. The tour de force of their building is the silvery five-story cube, with its daredevil cantilevered corner hovering over the entrance--anchored by hidden tons of steel and concrete--and the whole shebang wrapped in shimmering aluminum-mesh ...