High above the Mississippi River as it bends around the University of Minnesota’s main campus, a sparkling new glass building, the Science Teaching and Student Services Center (STSSC), is rising. Principal designer, Bill Pedersen, FAIA, of Kohn Pedersen Fox, New York, designed the five-story building not only to capitalize on its scenic site, but also to compliment its neighbor, the Frank Gehry-designed Weisman Art Museum (1993).
Both buildings stand opposite each other on plaza formed by the Washington Avenue pedestrian bridge deck. In contrast to the Weisman’s image of tumbling stainless steel blocks, the 120,000-square-foot STSSC is relatively simple and smooth in form, yet unique in the way its glass curtain wall reflects and refracts light.
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