{"id":2562,"date":"2016-12-29T15:18:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T15:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designtel.co\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2016-12-31T18:32:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T18:32:44","slug":"duluth-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.tel\/duluth-public-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Duluth Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u2018The building form is directional [.] Both ends are not the same. It is like a ship anchored at the mall, indicating its direction where it will depart.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Latvian-born, German-educated Gunner Birkerts studied under Modernist great <a href=\"http:\/\/designtel.co\/?s=eero+saarinen\" target=\"_blank\">Eero Saarinen<\/a> before going on to establish his own firm in 1959. The Duluth Public Library, although not as well known as his Federal Reserve Bank Building in Minneapolis, represents a culmination of his reduced glass and steel construction distilled with unwavering dynamic sculptural tendencies. The form pulls from its lake-adjacent context and carries the motif of an anchored ore boat throughout \u2013 a symbol of the city. Upper floors cantilever over public space adding necessity to the Library\u2019s sculptural form and the grey steel panels form ribbons with adjacent glazing \u2013 with a palette reflective of historical buildings that surround. A fine modernist work, the Library has recently come under attack for its \u2018unwieldy\u2019 character and faces the risk of being torn down.<\/p>\n<p>For a wonderful resource on the work, see an article <a href=\"http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2015\/02\/18\/4822_the_duluth_public_library_modernist_masterpiece\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The building form is directional [.] Both ends are not the same. It is like a ship anchored at the mall, indicating its direction where it will depart.\u2019 Latvian-born, German-educated Gunner Birkerts studied under Modernist great Eero Saarinen before going on to establish his own firm in 1959. The Duluth Public Library, although not as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}