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Building of the future looks to the past Architects of the new, innovative T3 office building take inspiration from building method of the past and historic structures in Minneapolis.
“This office building combines the aesthetic, spatial volumes, and warmth of older brick and timber buildings with state-of-the- art amenities and systems. This combination of old and new allows for high densification and meaningful recruitment and retention benefits for T3’s occupants.”
By LIISA ANDREASSEN Correspondent
I t’s a new era of architecture that’s relying on old traditions. Scheduled to open in fall 2016 and made of wood: Hines , an international real estate firm, is constructing a 220,000-square-foot timber, transit, and technology office development in downtown Minneapolis. WHAT IS T3? T3 is an innovative seven-story mass timber office building that is inspired by the area’s historic brick and timber structures and designed by Michael Green Architecture (Vancouver, BC) and the DLR Group (Omaha, NE), an architectural design group. T3 offers more than 12,000 square-feet of ground-floor retail space and more than 10,000 square-feet of tenant amenity space, including a fitness center, social workspace, more than 100 stalls of bike parking, and an expansive roof- top patio. Office space on floors two through seven is filled with abun- dant natural light from large industrial-inspired windows on a flexible, highly efficient 34,000-square-foot floor plate. “This office building combines the aesthetic, spatial volumes, and warmth of older brick and timber buildings with state-of-the-art ame- nities and systems. This combination of old and new allows for high densification and meaningful recruitment and retention benefits for T3’s occupants,” Hines’ managing director Steve Luthman says. See T3, page 10
THE ZWEIG LETTER OCTOBER 19, 2015, ISSUE 1124
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