构成明尼阿波利斯政府区的历史悠久的花岗岩建筑提供了一种庄严但不透明的公民义务、参与度和透明度的建筑愿景。但是，如果传统的城市设计方法需要文体庄重，那么新的明尼阿波利斯公共服务大楼提供了一种现代的选择。“我们对明尼阿波利斯公共服务大楼的设计旨在颠覆城市设计的常规，”Michael S?rensen 解释道。
The historic, granite buildings that makeup Minneapolis’ Government District offer a stately yet opaque architectural vision of civic duty, engagement, and transparency. But if the traditional architecture parlante approach to civic design has required stylistic solemnity, the new Minneapolis Public Service building offers a contemporary alternative. “Our approach to the Minneapolis Public Service building aimed to flip the conventions of civic design,” explains Michael S?rensen.
“通过特意设计开放和连接，我们希望有助于在城市中培养新的社区信任和伙伴关系。”该建筑由明尼阿波利斯市的MSR设计公司设计，并与明尼阿波利斯市和公众倡导人士密切合作，是美国城市建筑新联盟中的最新建筑，围绕着这样一个问题:“我们的公共空间如何更好地反映它们服务的社区?”
“By deliberately designing for openness and connection, we hoped to help foster a renewed sense of community trust and partnership within the city.” Designed with Minneapolis-based MSR Design and in close partnership with the City of Minneapolis and public advocates, the building is the latest in a new coalition of civic architecture across the United States conceived around the question: “How can our public spaces better reflect the communities they serve?
始于开放。环绕着公共服务大楼的高耸的玻璃和铝幕墙是广场上欢迎的、明亮的面孔。双层高的口袋从建筑中切割出来，打破了它的体量，并赋予每个正面独特的存在。方便的公众访问也有助于向公众发出邀请。
公共汽车和轻轨站经过并在新建筑旁边下车，从城市的另一端到它都很方便。入口门厅的大型特色楼梯提供了一个诱人的公共空间，即使没有物理连接到外面的广场，但在视觉上与街道上的生活联系在一起。
It starts with openness. The soaring glass and aluminum facades that wrap around the Public Service Building are welcoming, bright faces in the quad. Double height pockets are carved from the building, breaking up its massing and giving each of its frontages a distinctive presence. Easy public access also helps to extend an invitation to the public. Bus and light rail stations pass by and drop off next to the new building, offering easy access to it from across the city. A large feature stair in the entry foyer provides an inviting public space that, even if not physically connected to the square outside, is visually linked to life on the street.
在大楼的二楼，一个额外的大厅将这个37万平方英尺的大楼塞进了城市的第二条人行道。明尼阿波利斯庞大的空中走廊网络。"索伦森说："你真的在邀请人们从空中通道系统进入这个空间，成为建筑中这个慷慨的公共区域的一部分。"这是公众与城市相遇的一个空间......一切都在这里交汇。"
透明度和连接的主题在内部继续，甚至当访问慢慢地从对所有人开放转向安全的工作场所。办公楼层--3至10层--包含了日光照明的工作空间和封闭的办公室，安静的个人时间空间，改善的室内空气质量，以及顶层的会议空间、咖啡馆和露台。
On the building’s second floor, an extra lobby plugs the 370,000 square foot building into the city’s second sidewalk: Minneapolis’ sprawling network of skyways. “You’re really inviting people from the skyway system into this space and being part of this generous public area in the building,” says S?rensen. “This is the one space where the public meets the city…everything converges here.” The themes of transparency and connection continue inside, even as access slowly switches from open-to-all to secured workplace. The office floors – levels 3 through 10 – contain daylit workspaces and enclosed offices, quiet spaces for personal time, improved indoor air quality, and top-floor conference space, café, and terrace.
这座新楼曾经分散在城市的不同建筑中，首次将10个城市部门和1200多名员工聚集在一起。虽然政府办公室通常不是社交空间，但新公共服务大楼提供了改变这种情况的空间。
雇员们在运输过程中和在会议中相遇的可能性一样大：双高空间的交流楼梯在上升过程中穿过大楼，它们的落脚点被扩大，成为额外的休息空间。在一个需要高度安全的政府大楼里，设计仍然处处给人以开放和通风的感觉。
Once scattered across various buildings in the city, the new building brings together for the first time 10 city departments and over 1,200 employees. And while government offices are not often social spaces, the New Public Service Building offers space to change that. Employees are just as likely to meet in transit as they are in meetings: the communicating stairs in double-height spaces trace their way across the building as they ascent, their landings expanded to serve as additional breakout spaces. In a government building requiring high security, the design still feels open and airy at every turn.
S?rensen 说：“最好的公共空间不是根据它们提供的便利设施或它们所包含的设施来判断的，而是根据它们鼓励他们所服务的人实现的目标。” “随着明尼阿波利斯市开始为未来制定新的集体、反思和多元化课程，使命的透明度和公众对机构的信任将至关重要——我们希望新的公共服务大楼能够成为这方面的支柱。”
“The best civic spaces are not judged by the amenities they provide or the facilities they contain, but by what they encourage the people they serve to achieve,” says S?rensen. “Transparency of mission and public trust in institutions will be fundamental as the City of Minneapolis begins to craft their new collective, reflective and pluralistic course for the future – we hope the new Public Service Building can be an anchor for this.”
建筑师：Henning Larsen，MSR Design
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