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 >>
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 >>
Capella Tower 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 >>
Foshay Tower Designed by: Migney and Tusler Construction Completed: 1929 Area: Downtown Minneapolis Post Code: 55402 City: Minneapolis, Minnesota
One of the most beloved skyscrapers of the American Midwest, the Foshay Tower tells a tale of personal success and the failure of the American Dream. The building was the lifelong ambition of its name...read more >>
IDS Center Designed by: Philip Johnson and John Burgee Construction Completed: 1972 Area: Downtown Minneapolis Post Code: 55402 City: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Modern in the modern tradition, but without the fatal flaw of being boring, the IDS Center peeks over all others. At the time of its completion, it was the tallest skyscraper in Minneapolis. You can't...read more >>