Eyes on Milwaukee
Is the Marcus Center a Historic Building?
Two architects have nominated 1969 building for historic designation, which would slow redesign.
Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee
Two architects have nominated 1969 building for historic designation, which would slow redesign. Back to the full article.
Photos - Page 2
Is it my imagination, or does the artist’s rendering of the treeless Kiley space look like MacArthur Square (the disliked and largely unused space east of the courthouse)? Yeech!
I note also that the artist’s perspective is from someone floating in the air over Red Arrow Park – a perspective that conceals how the space might look from ground level and whether it would entice people in, or like MacArthur Square, repel them.
I hope the tree grove will be saved and continue to provide a quiet, shaded space during the summer.
I think we should save the Chestnut trees. I have had many brown bag lunches under their shade, and I have met friends who also worked downtown enjoying the shade under those trees.
You used a photo by Tom Bamberger to illustrate this. He wrote an article back in 2014 about
Kiley’s work at the MAM:
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2014/01/16/in-public-how-we%CA%BCve-abandoned-dan-kiley/
In Public
How Weʼve Abandoned Dan Kiley
The great landscape artistʼs work for the Milwaukee Art Museum is being diminished by neglect. Part II in a series.
By Tom Bamberger – Jan 16th, 2014 11:46 am
I am wondering if he has he expressed an opinion about this work of Kiley’s and its fate?
also: this is a matter of national interest:
https://landscapearchitecturemagazine.org/2019/01/29/great-lawn-vs-grove/
“Milwaukee rushes toward a zero-sum choice that could eradicate a Kiley landscape”