TCLF in the News

May 18, 2012
CityPages

The city's appeal to demolish Peavey Plaza in Nicollet Mall was approved by a City Council committee Thursday, meaning the 37-year-old park is one step closer to destruction.

May 17, 2012
Minnesota Public Radio

Brackish, green water fills the reflecting pool at Peavey Plaza in downtown Minneapolis. Two of the three pumps that circulate it have stopped working. The third hasn't been turned on since last year. The fountain's iconic metal columns are dry and a bronzy tinge can be clearly seen — which is surprising, because they're stainless steel.

May 17, 2012
Minnesota Public Radio

A Minneapolis City Council committee is in a hearing today discussing whether Peavey Plaza is worth preserving.

May 16, 2012
The Minneapolis Star Tribune

The Washington, D.C.-based Cultural Landscape Foundation, which has lobbied strenuously to preserve Peavey Plaza's mid-1970s design, on Wednesday released what it called a "new design concept" that differs dramatically from the one that was approved by the Minneapolis City Council and the Mayor last November.

May 16, 2012
The New York Times

In 1975 a two-acre outdoor public space called Peavey Plaza opened in downtown Minneapolis, offering city dwellers an “urban oasis” at a time when many Americans were re-embracing city life, its designer, M. Paul Friedberg, said in a recent interview.

May 11, 2012
Forum, National Trust for Historic Preservation

For Fort Worth’s spectacular modernist urban parks it is the best of times, it is the worst of times.

May 10, 2012
Chronicle of Philanthropy

Heirs of the late philanthropist Hannah Carter have gone to court to block the University of California at Los Angeles from selling a Japanese garden that the university purchased with donated funds, reports the Los Angeles Times.

May 9, 2012
Curbed DC

We've already covered what is probably the most expensive house in DC that isn't on the market (the residence for the Italian Ambassador), but now you can learn a few things about Italian design in the Nation's capital as a part of What’s Out There Weekend from May 19-20.

May 1, 2012

April 5, 2012: Twin Cities Daily Planet
Free Speech Zone: Save Peavey Plaza

April 12, 2012: Architect Magazine
Not all Brutalist landmarks subject to debate

April 24, 2012
Garden Design

This year, Garden Design is once again an educational partner with Landslide, the Cultural Landscape Foundation's annual thematic compendium of threatened and at-risk landscapes.