 | The McNamara Alumni Center Building
With a 230,000-square-foot office block clad in copper and a Memorial Hall created by colliding planes of granite with glass fissures, the McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota Gateway, is itself a unique attraction. It was designed by world-renowned architect Antoine Predock.
Inside, Memorial Hall is lined with wood strips and adjoins the copper of the office block. The 4,200-square-feet of irregular windows and fissures bathe the 85-foot-tall structure in natural light.
The hall, sometimes called the 'geode' for its shape and the difference between the interior and exterior appearances, is covered with 2,200 blocks of rose-colored granite weighing up to 1,000 pounds each. Supporting the granite are 500 steel beams with no two alike in length and connections. The interior is finished with a black terrazzo floor and six miles of 1-by-8 hemlock strips. About 20,000 square feet of copper completes the interior cladding.
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