Sag Harbor

Ever since Jean Nouvel’s Guthrie Theater opened in Minneapolis last summer there have been people flocking to the area. Other buildings have been popping up in the area as a result of the sudden cultural boom, including a 42-unit condominium building called “The Portland”. Other projects include a new 600,000 square foot music school, a modernized library and a park.

Gold Medal Park, a much-needed green space, completes the riverfront scene. Landscape architect, Tom Oslund, reworked a 7.5-acre parking lot next to the Guthrie. At the heart of the space, a 32-foot-high grassy mound that spirals upward to give visitors a better view of the Mississippi River. Oslund says that his design was inspired by the Dakota Indians’ burial mounds found throughout Minnesota. Although the new park was completed last fall, its true debut comes this spring when more than 300 trees begin blooming.

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