Posted on 04/15/2025 4:17:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Behold the lovely new Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Building at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Complements the nearby parking deck! It’s a cancer research center, designed by HDR Architects, Omaha. Certainly has that American heartland tumor spirit! The promotional literature says, “the COVID-19 pandemic significantly influenced the design.” The building is intended to symbolize “hope and progress,” it says. Strange to relate, the percentage increase in cancer cases in the USA from 2021 to 2024 (the latest fully projected year) is approximately 12.6 percent. Could that have anything to do with the Covid-19 vaccines? Perhaps researchers in the Kellen Building can figure that out. By the way, in July 2021, Mayo Clinic announced that all staff, regardless of work location, were required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. They were dead certain it was the right thing to do.
No wonder aliens keep crashing on the planet! They get distracted by awful architecture!
A new contender for the most hideous building in Minnesota. I thought nothing could top the Brutalist eyesore that is the Abby chapel at St. John’s University, but this Mayo Clinic building is uniquely hideous.
Donors should be pleased that several million dollars were diverted from research and care for squandering on the architect’s bubble-wrap gimmick. A large portion of the world’s stockpile of bs was no doubt deployed to justify this.
Anyone contributing a 11-story building to the Mayo Clinic has a whole lot of flexibility in the architecture of the building. As a dozen year survivor of cancer because of treatment by the Mayi Clinic, you can rest assured that the perception on this site of the architecture in the buildings is of no consideration to me whenever I’m there.
actually it was a wake up call for a number of churches that have torn out the modernizations and are going back to older designs.
I think it is interlibrary loanable too
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